COMPOSITAE 589 



Visitors. Herm. Mtiller saw 4 Muscids, 2 hover-flies, and 2 Lepidoptera in 

 the Alps. He gives the following for Westphalia. 



A. Coleoptera. (a) Cerambycidae: 1. Leptura livida Z., po-dvg. (b) Niti- 

 dulidae: 2. Meligethes, po-dvg. (c) Oedemeridae : 3. Oedemera virescens Z. 

 (d) Phalacridae : 4. Olibrus sp. B. Diptera. {a) Empidae : 5. Empis livida Z 

 very common, skg. ; 6. E. opaca F., skg. {b) Muscidae : 7. Lucilia cornicina F. 

 numerous, po-dvg.; 8. Musca corvina F., do.; 9. Scatophaga merdaria F., do. 



10. S. stercoraria Z., do.; 11. Zophomyia tremula Scop., po-dvg. (c) Syrphidae 



12. Ascia podagrica F., po-dvg.; 13. Eristalis arbustoram Z., very common, po-dvg. 

 14. E. pertinax Scop., do.; 15. E. sepulcralis Z., do.; 16. E. tenax Z., do. 

 17. Melithreptus scriptus Z., po-dvg.; 18. Rhingia rostrata Z., very common, po 

 dvg.; 19. Syritta pipiens Z, do., and skg. C. Hymenoptera. (a) Apidae 

 20. Andrena nitida Fourcr. 5, casually skg.; 21. A. parvula K. 5, po-cltg. 

 22. Apis mellifica Z. , in large numbers, po-cltg. ; 23. Halictus albipes F. 5, skg, 

 24. H. cylindricus F. 5, do. ; 25. H. minutissimus K. $, in large numbers, po-cltg, 

 26. Nomada flavoguttata K. , skg. ; 27. N. lineola Pz. J, do. ; 28. Osmia rufa Z. 5, 

 skg. and po-cltg.; 29. Sphecodes gibbus Z. 5, skg. (b) Formicidae: 30. Myrmica 

 levinodis Nyl., trying to suck. D. Lepidoptera. (a) Rhopalocera : 31. Coenonympha 

 pamphilus Z., skg.; 32. Polyommatus dorilis Hfn., casually skg. (6) Tineidae: 

 33. Adela violella Tr. J, skg. 



Burkill observed the following on the Yorkshire coast (' Fertlsn. of Spring Fls.'). 



A. Araneidae. 1. Xysticus pini Hahn, lying in wait for prey. B. Coleoptera. 

 (a) Curculionidae'. 2. Apion striatum K. (b) Nitidulidae: 3. Meligethes sp. C. 

 Diptera. (a) Bibionidae : 4. Dilophus albipennis Mg. (b) Muscidae : 5. An 

 Ephydrid ; 6. Helomyza sp. ; 7. Lucilia cornicina F., skg. and po-dvg. ; 8. Onesia 

 cognata Mg., do. ; 9. Pollenia rudis ; 10. Scatophaga stercoraria Z., skg. and po-dvg. ; 



1 1. Sepsis nigripes Mg., po-dvg. (c) Syrphidae : 12. Eristalis pertinax Scop., po-dvg. ; 



13. Melanostoma quadrimaculatum Verral; 14. Syrphus lasiophthalmus Zett. D. 

 Hymenoptera. (a) Apidae : 1 5. Andrena clarkella K. $, skg. ; 1 6. A. gwynana K. 5 ; 

 1 7. Bombus terrester Z. (b) Ichneumonidae : 18. Ichneumon sp. E. Lepidoptera. 

 Rhopalocera : 19. Pieris rapae Z., skg. ; 20. Vanessa urticae Z., do. 



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



Knuth (North Frisian Islands), Apis, 4 hover- flies, 4 Muscids, a butterfly, and the 

 beetle Meligethes ('Blutenbiol. Beob. a. d. nordfr.Ins./ p.157); (Helgoland), Diptera. 

 All skg.: (a) Muscidae: 1. Coelopa frigida Fall.; 2. Homalomyia scalaris F. J; 

 3. Lucilia caesar Z. ; 4. Minute species, (b) Syrphidae: 5. Eristalis tenax Z. (Bot. 

 Jaarb. Dodonaea, Ghent, viii, 1896, p. 38); (Thuringia), a hover-fly (Melithreptus sp., 

 skg.), and 2 Muscids, skg. (Anthomyia sp., and a small sp.). Alfken (Bremen). 



A. Diptera. Muscidae: 1. Lucilia caesar Z., very common; 2. Musca domestica Z., 

 one; 3. Pollenia rudis F. ; 4. P. vespillo F, rare. B. Hymenoptera. Apidae: 

 5. Andrena parvula K. 5 and S, freq., skg. ; 6. Halictus morio F. 5, skg. and po-cltg.; 

 7. H. nitidiusculus K. 5, freq., skg.; 8. Nomada flavoguttata K., var. hoppneri 

 Alfken 5 and J, do.; 9. Sphecodes ephippius Z. ; 10. S. sp. Loew (Silesia), 

 a hover-fly (Syritta pipiens Z., skg.), and a bee (Trypetes truncorum Z. 5, po-cltg.) 

 ('Beitrage,' pp. 30-1). Verhoeff (Norderney). A. Diptera. (a) Empidae: 1. 

 Hilara quadrivittata Mg. (b) Muscidae : 2. Anthomyia sp. ; 3. Onesia floralis R.-D. 



B. Lepidoptera. Pieridae : 4. Pieris brassicae Z., skg. Krieger (Leipzig), the bee 

 Halictus nitidiusculus K. Schletterer (Pola), the following Apidae : 5 bees 

 1. Andrena carbonaria Z. ; 2. A. parvula K.; 3. A. thoracica F. ; 4. Halictus 

 calceatus Scop. ; 5. H. malachurus K. Schmiedeknecht (Florence), on the authority of 

 Piccioli, gives the bee Andrena florentina Mgr. MacLeod (Pyrenees), a bee, a Lepi- 

 dopterid, 3 hover-flies, and 6 Muscids (Bot. Jaarb. Dodonaea, Ghent, Hi, 1891, p. 360) ; 

 (Flanders), Apis, 9 species of Andrena, 6 species of Halictus, 4 other short-tongued 



