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specimen, wlncli is a male, was bred from a pupa found by me about 

 three weeks ago, and was not reared in confinement. The insect is 

 now in the possession of P. T. Lathy, Esq., Enfield, England, to 

 whom I forwarded it. — G. F. Leigh ; Musgrave Eoad, Durban, Natal. 



Hymenoptera-Aculeata of the Oxford District. — The report of 

 the Oxfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club for 1900 

 (recently received) is accompanied by a list of the Aculeate Hymeno- 

 ptera of the Oxford district. The species enumerated number two 

 hundred and eight, and comprise ten Heterogyna, sixty-two Fossores, 

 fifteen Diploptera, and one hundred and twenty-one Anthophila. 



List of British Diptera (2nd Edition). — Even if the addition to 

 the faunal lists of some three hundred species, and still more numerous 

 important emendations and alterations, had not indicated the pressing 

 need of a new edition of Mr. Verrall's invaluable list of British Diptera, 

 it appears that the original edition was exhausted, and that a reprint 

 had become a necessity. Although the author is not yet satisfied 

 with the list as regards accuracy and completeness, we are sure that 

 this revised edition will be gladly welcomed by dipterists. In the 

 preface, reference is made to the increased interest in British Diptera, 

 and the hope is expressed that this may lead to the production of 

 more perfect lists than is possible at present of such families as the 

 Cecidomyidfe and the Mycetophilidae. 



CAPTURES AND FIELD EEPOETS. 



CoLiAS hyale and Sphinx convolvuli in Wiltshire in 1901. — I wish 

 to record the capture here last year, on Sept. 18th, of a female 

 specimen of Colias hyale, which I released, upon identification. This 

 is the first and only one I have seen in this neighbourhood during 

 many years. I also caught a female Sphinx convolvuli on the evening 

 of Sept, 23rd, which I restored to liberty ; and I noticed this same 

 insect, or others of its kind, on several subsequent evenings, at the 

 flowers of Nicotiana affinis. — (Rev.) C. A. Sladen ; The Rectory, Alton 

 Barnes, Pewsey, Feb. 14th, 1902. 



Ophiodes lunaris : a Correction. — In my record of the above 

 species {ante, p. 25), I should have said that it was exhibited at the 

 City of London Entomological Society on Dec. 3rd, 1901, not at the 

 Entomological Society of London on the 6th. — T. Weight ; Heath 

 Side, Warrington, Jan. 9th, 1901. 



Odonata, &c., at Camberley, Surrey. — Libellula depressa, L. qnadri- 

 mamdata, Sympetrum strioldtum, Mschna cyanea, Lestes spo7isa, Agrion 

 pueJla, and Pyrrhosoma nymphula were very plentiful at Camberley in 

 1900. I got several specimens of Cordnleyastcr annulatus, and three 

 of Orthetrum ccBrulescens, two of which were caught in an orchard. Of 

 Coleoptera, I met with Cicindela cavipestris, Cryptocephalus aureolus, and 

 Cetonia aurata continually, and a gardener gave me thirteen specimens 

 of Geotrupes stercorarius, males and females, which he had caught on 

 the way to Bagshot. — M. Pallis ; Tato'i, Aigburth Drive, Sefton Park, 

 Jan. 4th, 1902. 



