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Lampronota fracticornis . 



L. tibiis tarsisque anterioribus et femoribus rufis, m./.; terebra 



abdomine sesquilongiore, /. Long. 4-j lin. 

 Var. — Segmentis intermediis summo margine rufescentibus. 

 England and Scotland, common in woods in autumn, and particu- 

 larly on the broom. 

 Lampronota crenicornis, B. E. 407. 



L. pedibus rufis, tibiis tarsisque posticis nigris, m.f. ; terebra ab- 

 domine breviore,/. Long. 4 lin. 

 Holywood, not uncommon, July — September. 

 Lampronota denticornis, C. 511. 14^. 



L. femoribus rufis, tibiis tarsisque anterioribus rufis posticis fuscis ; 

 abdomine subopaco, segmentis intermediis summo margine cas- 

 taneis, m.f.; terebra abdomine breviore,/. Long. 4 lin. 

 Ireland, in pine woods, autumn. 



The new species indicated in the families Cyniphida, Proc- 

 totrupidee, Diapriad<B and Ceraphronidcs will be noticed in a 

 separate memoir on the British species of those famiUes. 



[To be continued.] 



XVI. — Communication respecting Fossil and Recent Infusoria 

 made to the British Association at Newcastle. By Prof. 

 Ehrenberg. 



To the Editors of the Annals of Natural History. 

 Gentlemen, 

 You will much oblige me by inserting the subjoined notice, 

 which has been occasioned by the erroneous report in the 

 Athenaeum of the statements made by me at the late Meeting 

 of the British Association in Newcastle, in the section of bo- 

 tany and zoology, which statements, so far as I can recollect, 

 were to the following import : — 



For the purpose of physiological inquiries I have occupied 

 myself ^^dth the investigation of microscopic organized beings, 

 not only in Europe, but also upon several voyages for several 

 years in other quarters of the globe. The results of my obsei'va- 

 tions had been hitherto scattered in single memoirs, published 

 in the Acts of the Royal Academy of Berlin. Within these few 

 weeks, however, my large work on this subject has been com- 



