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came crawling out in large numbers with every demonstration of 

 anger ; and so they still do every time I look at them. — V. R. 

 Perkins; Wotton-under-Edge, November 25, 1883. 



Crabro varius, St. F.—l had the pleasure of taking a pair 

 of this small Fossor on the 1st of August last, near the Railway 

 Station, Bickley, South Devon. The late Mr. Smith captured 

 specimens in North Devon in 1870; these are the only two 

 recorded captures of this insect in Devon. — G. C. Bignell ; 

 Stonehouse, January 2, 1884. 



Micromelus pyrrhogaster, Walk. — I bred a male and female 

 of this interesting Chalcid from Mecinus collaris galls, on the 

 flowering stems of Plantago maritima. I have no doubt but that 

 they were parasitic on these small beetles. — G. C. Bignell ; 

 Stonehouse, Plymouth, December 14, 1883. 



New British Ichneumon. — I have found, among the insects 

 taken in this neighbourhood during the last summer, a specimen 

 of Mesoleptus facialis, Grav. (male). This is a most interesting 

 addition to the British Ichneumons, as it appears not to have 

 been found since Gravenhorst described the single example 

 received from Spinola (Ichn. Europ. ii. 12) ; at least none of the 

 later authors make any mention of it, nor is it in the Rev. T. A. 

 Marshall's Catalogue. The insect is fully six lines in length, 

 being larger than Gravenhorst's, but agrees with his in every 

 other respect ; and singular to relate the areolet in the right wing 

 is only faintly indicated, whilst the left has it long petiolated, 

 just as in his specimen ; he says, " areola in ala dextra deficiente, 

 in sinistra minutissima triangulari irregulari longepetiolata." It 

 is scarcely right to place it among the MesoleiJti, for, as Graven- 

 horst points out, the petiole of the abdomen is distinctly 

 thickened behind, the spiracles being placed somewhat before 

 the middle. The head is transverse, but not buccate. I should 

 say the Mesolei was the proper group to place it in. The entirely 

 black body, white face, and ring of antennae, together with its 

 size, make it very conspicuous and unmistakable. — Edward 

 Capron ; Shiere, Surrey, November 24, 1883. 



Hemerobius? or Chrysopa ? — Mr. J. E. Fletcher (Entom. 

 xvii. 22) is quite right, — I should have put Chrysopa, not 

 Hemerobius, in my remarks on the abundance of lace-wings ; but 



