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A wasp, Vespa vulgaris %, found eating the butterfly 
Pararge egeria (New Forest, Aug. 13, 1905). W. J. Lucas, 
Esq: BA. 
The Fossorial wasp, Crabro cribrarius, 9, carrying the fly 
Calliphora vomtitoria 9 (Brodie, Nairnshire, July 18, 1904). 
ColzJe Wai Yerbury. 
A Curculio (“ Weevil”), Otiorrhynchus sulcatus, found in the 
burrows of the Fossorial wasp, Cerceris arenaria; the frag- 
ments of Ig specimens (Lyme Regis, July 30, 1905). A. J. 
Chitty, Esq., M.A., Balliol College. 
The Tenthredinid (“ Saw-fly ”), AV/antus arcuatus, devouring 
an Acalypterate muscid,—a fragment (near Sandwich, July 18- 
21,1905). H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe, Esq., F.E.S. 
Odonata (“ dragon-flies’’) with their prey, presented by the 
following naturalists :— 
Cordulegaster annulatus, 9, devouring one of the common 
wasps, Vespa rufa (New Forest, Aug. 6, 1898). W. J. Lucas, 
Esq., B.A. The wasp was still alive, although its thorax had 
been crushed by the dragon-fly. Pyrrhosoma nymphula, with 
an Ephemerid, “ May-fly” (Aviemore, June 5, 1904). Col. 
J. W. Yerbury. 
Panorpidae (“Scorpion-flies”) with their prey, from Tewkes- 
bury, 1904, presented by H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe, Esq., 
F.E.S.  Panorpa communis, o7, with the beetle Zelephorus 
lituratus (May 19); Panorpa germanica, o7, with a Bibionid 
fly, probably Dilophus febrilis o7. 
Coleoptera with their prey :-— 
Gyrinus natator (the “whirligig beetle”) with the “ dung- 
fly” Scatephaga merdaria (Belvedere, near Woolwich, April 
2, 1905), Col. J. W. Yerbury; the Staphylinid beetle, Ocypus 
olens, with the head of its prey, a Carabid beetle, protruding 
from its jaws (probably from Reigate), Edward Saunders, 
Fisq:, RS: 
A fine specimen of the “Red Admiral” of the Canary 
Islands (Pyramets callirrhoe, var. vulcania) from near Orotava, 
Teneriffe (400 ft.), Jan. 12, 1905, was presented by the captor, 
H. Richardson, Esq. 
