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The following insects were captured by the same generous 

 donor in the New Forest (1909) : — 



Two RapJiidia sp,, Brockenhurst, June 5. 



A Tenthredinid, Ramnor Enclosure, June 12. 



The parasitic bee, Melccta hictiiosa, Sway, June 14, 



A female MiUilla europaea, Matley Bog, June 15. 



Twelve larvae of Hepiahis lupulmus, attacked by the fungus 

 Cordiccps entomorrhiza^ were presented by E. R. Bankes, Esq., 

 F.E.S. The specimens had been found at Bognor (1908) by 

 W. H. B. Fletcher, Esq., M.A., F.E.S. 



Four male imagines of Hepiahis htimtdi, attached to shoots 

 of Ulex europaea and covered with threads of Clavaria ?, were 

 presented by the same donor, who had found the specimens 

 in the Isle of Purbeck (1886 and 1890). See Proc. Ent. Soc, 

 Lond., 1908, pp. XXV, xxvi. 



Eight examples of Tortrix promibaita, from Eastbourne, 

 were presented by R. Adkin, Esq., F.E.S. (Proc. South Lond. 

 Ent. Soc, 1907-8, p. 20). The specimens, which were bred 

 by Mr. Adkin, are a valuable addition to the British Collection. 



A male and female of the rare and splendid Tipulid, Cteno- 

 phora ornata, bred June 27, 1907, from a New Forest parent, 

 were presented by Dr. David Sharp, M.B., M.A., F.R.S., &c. 



A Curculionid beetle, bred from a cocoon found (August, 

 1907) in a house in London, was presented by Mrs. Hauteville 

 Cope. 



A wood-boring beetle {Bostrichidae), probably of the genus 

 Apate, found (1908) in the Pitt- Rivers Museum, near a war- 

 drum from the Zambesi, was presented by H. Balfour, Esq., 

 M.A., Trinity College. 



The Dipterous bird-parasite, Ornithomyia, probably avicu- 

 laria, was presented by W. H. Somerset, Esq. The donor 

 had captured a young thrush with his hat (Wytham, June, 

 1909), in which the Ornitlioinyia was found half an hour 

 later. 



The same donor also presented the bee MegacJiile zvillngh- 

 biella, from Noke, near Islip, with the leaf-made cell from 

 which it had emerged (July, 1909), and 2 Chalcids which had 

 bored their way out of an adjacent cell. 



