118 THE ENTOMOLOGisT. 
The imago is particularly downy, and the tarsi are particu- 
larly pale. Tenthredo Crategi is a very abundant insect: 
on a mild evening, in July and August, a hundred of its 
mealy, glaucous larve may be picked off any hawthorn 
hedge in the course of half an hour. It is a great pet with 
the name-changers, scarcely any two entomologists using the 
same name:—Cimbex Lucorum, Trichiosoma Lucorum, 
Cimbex sylvatica, Trichiosoma sylvaticum. Cimbex Betuleti 
is the name adopted by Klug, Hartig, and Vollenhoven; but 
it has never been found feeding on birch, as this name would 
’ seem to imply.—Edward Newman.) 
W. Macmillan.—Name of a Wasp.—Will you kindly 
inform me.with what species of wasp the facial and abdominal 
markings, shown in the enclosed sketch, agree? The wasp, 
from which the sketch was made, I caught in a window on 
the 2nd of October last. A friend of mine has compared it 
with two queens of V. germanica, and thinks it is probably a 
queen of the small common wasp, V. vulgaris; but is by no 
means certain. 
[I have no doubt of its being the common wasp, Vespa 
vulgaris, but the markings on the abdomen are subject to 
some variation; those on the face are more constant, and 
consequently more reliable-—Hdward Newman. ] 
Extracts from the Proceedings of the Entomological Society 
of London. 
Sir Sidney Smith Saunders, C.M.G., President, in the 
chair. 
Fesruary 1, 1875. 
Variety of Noctua glareosa; and Amara continua at 
Caterham and Mickleham.—Mr. 8. Stevens exhibited a dark 
variety of Noctua glareosa, Gn,; and Mr. Champion exhi- 
bited specimens of Amara continua, T’homs., taken at Caterham 
and Mickleham. 
Polistes gallicus utilizing Play-bills in the construction of 
its Cells.—The President exhibited a nest of Polistes gallicus, 
taken on the Esplanade at Corfu, of which the cells were 
partly constructed with coloured paper taken from some 
play-bills posted in the vicinity, as alluded to in his Anni- 
versary Address, delivered at the last meeting. 
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