COMPOSITAE 677 



Visitors. Herm. Mailer gives the following list for Westphalia (.' Fertilisation,' 



P- 358).- 



A. Diptera. (a) Bombyliidae : 1. Systoechus sulphureus Mik., skg. (Sauerland). 

 (b) Conopidae: 2. Sicus ferrugineus Z., skg. (c) Syrphidae: 3. Cheilosia sp. ; 

 4. Eristalis arbustorum Z., very common, po-dvg. and skg. ; 5. E. hordeola Deg. t 

 po-dvg. and skg.; 6. Melithreptus taeniatus Mg., do.; 7. Sericomyia lappona Z., 

 skg. (Sauerland); 8. Volucella pellucens Z., in large numbers, skg. (Sauerland). 

 B. Hymenoptera. (a) Apidae : 9. Andrena coitana K. 5 and 5, skg. and po-cltg. ; 

 10. A. fulvescens Sm. 5, do., dusting itself with large quantities of pollen; If. 

 Psithyrus barbutellus K. 5, skg. ; 1 2. Bombus pratorum Z. , skg. and po-cltg. ; 

 13. Halictus albipes F. 5, po-cltg.; 14. A. cylindricus F. $, freq., po-cltg.; 15. H. 

 leucozonius Schr. $, po-cltg.; 16. H. smeathmanellus K. $, do.; 17. H. villosulus 

 K. J, do. (b) Tenthredinidae: 18. Tenthredo sp., skg. C. Lepidoptera. 

 Rhopalocera: 19. Hesperia sylvanus Esp., skg. 



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

 MacLeod (Pyrenees), 9 bees, 7 Lepidoptera, 3 beetles, and 7 Muscids. Frey- 

 Gessner (Switzerland), the rare dasygastrid bee Eriadis grandis Nyl. Schenck 

 (Nassau), the bee Osmia leucomelaena K. Loew (Riigen), the bee Panurgus lobatus 

 F. J, skg. (' Beitrage,' p. 40) : Silesia, the hover-fly Pipiza noctiluca Z. (?), and the 

 bee Anthidium strigatum Pz. (op. cit., p. 32); Riesengebirge (R.) and Silesia (S.), 

 the hover-fly Cheilosia canicularis Pz., skg. (R.), and the bee Andrena shawella K. 5, 

 skg. (S.) (op. cit, p. 51): Switzerland (S.) and the Tyrol (T.) (op. cit., p. 59). 



A. Diptera. Syrphidae: 1. Cheilosia andqua Mg. (S.) ; 2. Merodon cinereus F. 

 (S.) ; 3. Syrphus confusus Egg. (?) (S.). B. Hymenoptera. Apidae : 4. Andrena 

 proxima K. 5 (T.). C. Lepidoptera. Rhopalocera: 5. Argynnis pales S.-V. (S.); 

 6. Colias phicomene Esp. (S.); 7. Erebia medea S.-V. (S.); 8. Melitaea parthenie 

 Bkk.(S.): (Berlin Botanic Garden). A. Diptera. Syrphidae: 1. Eristalis arbustorum 

 Z. ; 2. E. nemorum Z. ; 3. E. tenax Z. ; 4. Syrphus balteatus Deg. ; 5. S. ribesii Z. 



B. Hemiptera. 6. Strachia oleracea Z. C. Hymenoptera. Apidae : 7. Halictus 

 villosulus K. $, skg. D. Lepidoptera. Rhopalocera : 8. Pieris brassicae Z., skg. ; 

 9. Vanessa urticae Z., do. Herm. Miiller (Alps, L. hastilis, L. pyrenaeus, and other 

 sp.), 6 beetles, 21 flies, 29 Hymenoptera, and 43 Lepidoptera (' Alpenblumen,' 

 pp. 466-8). Scott-Elliot (Dumfriesshire), Apis, a humble-bee, and a Muscid (' Flora 

 of Dumfriesshire/ p. 102). 



1613. L. asper Poir. 



Visitors. Loew (Berlin Botanic Garden) observed a hover-fly (Syrphus ribesii 

 Z.) and 2 bees (Halictus villosulus K. 5, po-cltg., and Heriades truncorumZ. }, do.). 



1614. L. crispus Vill. 



Visitors. Loew (Berlin Botanic Garden) observed 2 bees (Halictus villosulus 

 K. 5, po-cltg., and Psithyrus campestris Pz. S, skg.). 



1615. L. pyrenaictts Gouan (?). 



Visitors. MacLeod observed a hover-fly and a Muscid in the Pyrenees, 



490. Picris L. 



Florets yellow. Sweeping-hairs and stigmatic papillae as in Leontodon. 



1616. P. hieracioides L. (Herm. Miiller, 'Fertilisation,' pp. 352-3, 'Weit 

 Beob.,' Ill, p. 96.) Hermann Miiller states that in this species there are 44 to 75 

 florets in a head, and the marginal ones are larger than those in the centre. In 

 sunny weather the capitulum spreads out into a golden-yellow disk 24-36 mm. 



