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2. Lucilia caesar L. ; 3. Syritta pipiens L. Herm. Muller (Kitzingen), 4 necl-lkg. 

 beetles (a) Cerambycidae : i. Leptura livida Z'., nect-lkg. ; 2. Strangalia melanura 

 L. (^) MordelUdae : 3. Mordella aculeata Z. ; 4. Mordellistena pumila Gylh. 



2524. E. Cyparissias L. (Sprengel, 'Entd. Geh.,' p. 266; Herm. Muller, 

 ' Alpenblumen,' pp. 172-3, ' Weit. Beob.,' II, p. 216.) 



Visitors. Herm. Muller (H. M.) and Buddeberg (Budd.) give the following list 

 for Central Germany. 



A. Coleoptera. (a) Cerambycidae : i. Phytoecia nigricornis F., nect-lkg. 

 (Budd.). (3) Chrysomelidae : 2. Cryptocephalus flavipes F. (Budd.) ; 3. Haltica sp., 

 freq. (H. M., Thuringia) ; 4. Luperus circumfusus Marsh. (Budd.). (f) Elateridae : 

 5. Corymbites aeneus Z., nect-lkg. (Budd.); 6. Cryptohypnus minutissimus Germ., 

 nect-lkg. (Budd.). (</) Telephoridae : 7. Cantharis sp., nect-lkg, (Budd.). (f) Mor- 

 delUdae : 8. Mordella aculeata Z., nect-lkg. (Budd.). B. Diptera. (a) Muscidae : 

 9. Anthomyia sp. 5, freq., skg. (Budd.). (3) Syrphidae : 10. Cheilosia sp., skg. 

 (Budd.); II. Eristalis arbustorum Z., do. (H. M.) ; 12. E. tenax Z., do. (H. M.). 

 C. Hemiptera. 13. Lygaeus equestris Z. (H. M.); 14. Miris levigatus Z. (Budd.); 

 15. Stenocephalusagilis6"fo/'. (Budd.). D. Hymenoptera. {a)Apidae: 16. Andrena 

 convexiuscula K. $, skg. (Budd.) ; 17. Halictus flavipes F. 5, skg. (Budd.); 18. H. 

 villosulus K. $, skg. and po-cltg. (H. M.) ; 19. Sphecodes gibbus Z. 5, skg. (Budd.). 

 {b) Chrysididae : 20. Chrysis ignita Z. ^, nect-lkg. (H. M.). {c) Tenthredinidae : 

 21. Allantus temulus Scop., in large numbers, nect-lkg. (Budd.) ; 22. Amasis laeta F., 

 nect-lkg. (Budd.); 23. Hylotoma ustulata Z., do. (Budd.); 24. Macrophya ribis 

 Schr., do. (Budd.). (</) Vespidae : 25. Eumenes pomiformis F., skg. (H. M.). 



E. Lepidoptera. 26. Hesperia sylvanus Esp., skg. (H. M., Thuringia). 



The following were recorded by the observers, and for the localities stated. 



Loew (Brandenburg, ' Beitrage,' p. 36), a Sphegid (Cheilosia praecox Zeit., skg.) 

 and 2 hover-flies (Chrysotoxum vernale Lw., skg., and Eristalis nemorum Z., do.) : 

 (Silesia, op. cit., pp. 29, 48), a Therevid (Thereva microcephala Loew) and a hover-fly 

 (Melanostoma mellina Z., skg.). Schmiedeknecht (Thuringia), 2 bees Andrena 

 fulvida Schenck, and A. proxima K. Friese (Thuringia), the saw-fly Tenthredo 

 ignobilis Klug. Krieger (Leipzig), the 2 commonest fossorial wasps Pompilus 

 viaticus Z., and Salius fuscus F. Herm. Muller (Alps), 21 Diptera, a beetle, and 

 3 Lepidoptera. Schletterer, for Pola and the Tyrol (T.), a bee (Halictus tetrazonius 

 Klg. J (T.), a saw-fly (Arge cyaneocrocea Forst.), and a wasp (Polistes gallica Z.). 



F. F. Kohl (Tyrol), the Chrysididid EUampus aeneus F. 



2525. E. palustris L. (Heinsius, Bot. Jaarb. Dodonaea, Ghent, iv, 1892, 

 pp. 59-61; Loew, 'Bliitenbiol. Floristik,' p. 165.) Heinsius says that the inflor- 

 escences of this species are partly protandrous and partly protogynous ; those situated 

 in the middle and flowering first being protandrous, and those nearer the outside 

 protogynous. 



Visitors. Loew observed the following in the Berlin Botanic Garden. 



A. Coleoptera. {a) Dermestidae : i. Anthrenus scrophulariae Z., nect-lkg. 

 (3) Scarabaeidae : 2. Cetonia aurata Z., dvg. the flowers. B. Diptera. {a) Bibionidae : 



3. Bibio hortulanus Z. 5, skg. ; 4. B. marci Z. t, do. (b) Empidae : 5. Hilara 

 maura F, skg. (c) Muscidae : 6. Anthomyia sp. ; 7. Sarcophaga carnaria Z. 

 (d) Syrphidae : 8. Eristalis nemorum Z. ; 9. Melanostoma mellina Z., skg.; 10. Syritta 

 pipiens Z., do. C. Hymenoptera. Apidae: 11. Andrena fasciata Wesm. 5, 

 po-cltg.; 12. A. fulva Schr. $, do.; 13. A. nitida Fourcr. $, skg. and po-cltg.; 

 14. Apis mellifica Z. 5, eagerly skg., and removing pollen while creeping over several 

 cyathia. 



