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DiPTERA FROM OXFORD AND THE NeW FoRBST. Pl'ofeSSOr 



E. B. PouLTON exhibited the following Diptera, bred or 

 captured by Mr. A. H. Hamm, of the Hope Department. 

 The observations recorded below were from Mr. Hamm's 

 notes. 



(1) Ten specimens of Eccoptomera microps, Mg., bred from 

 pupae found on February 6th, 1909, in a single mole's nest, 

 on the Headington Wick Farm, near Oxford. They emerged 

 at intervals, the first on March 15th, and the last on April 

 12th, 1909. 



(2) Two specimens of Miltogramma germari, Mg., a species 

 new to the British list. They were taken with M. punctatuni, 

 Mg., on a sandy path, near Shotover Hill, Oxford, on August 

 7th, 1907. The path is very much frequented by various 

 species of Aculeate Hymenoptera, about the burrows of 

 which they were captured. {Vide E. M. M,, 1909, p. 105.) 



(3) A specimen of M. pmictatuvi, Mg., was one of several ob- 

 served following the bee, Golleles succincta, L. The fly exhibited 

 was captured as it w^as following a male of the bee along a sandy 

 bank, near Lyndhurst, on Avigust 2nd, 1907, both it and the 

 bee being taken in a single sweep of the net. Mr. Hamm 

 and his friend, Mr. G. Arnold, watched them frequently fol- 

 lowing the CoUetes, but not so persistently, as in the case of 

 Chortophila imilineata, TaH., recorded in Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 February 7th, 1906. 



(4) A specimen of Sphecapata conica, Fin., was one of two 

 which very persistently followed the Fossor, Crabro scutellaris, 

 Sm., 9 . All three were netted together, but one of the flies 

 escaped while endeavouring to box them. The observations 

 were made and the specimens captured near Denny Bog, in the 

 New Forest, August 14th, 1908. 



A RARE CasTNIA BRED FROM AN OrCHID IN ENGLAND. 



Professor Poulton exhibited an example of the rare Castniid 

 moth, Castnia therapon, Kollar, captured on December 26th, 

 1908, flying in his orchid-house at Broadstone, Dorset, by 

 Dr. A. B. Wallace. The empty pupa-case, also exhibited, 

 was found among the roots of a Stanhopea, which had been 

 more than a year in Dr. Wallace's possession. Its previous 

 history was set forth in the following statement received by 



