THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XLL] OCTOBEE, 1908. [No. 545 



OVA OF KAPHIDIA NOT AT A (NEUROPTEEA). 



By G. T. Lyle. 



(Plate VII.) 



In the summer of 1907 I found a female of this, the largest 

 of the four British species of the Eaphidiidte (snake-flies), one of 

 the families of the Planipennia. The insect was crawling on 

 the trunk of a tree {Pinus sylvestris) in Perry Wood, in the New 

 Forest. I placed the specimen in a pill-box, and took it home 

 with the intention of photographing it. On opening the box the 

 next day I discovered that it had deposited six eggs in the 

 crevice between the box and the lid, thus leading one to suppose 

 that they are normally laid in the chinks of the bark. The eggs 

 were conical in shape, and had a very short pedestal at the 

 thicker end. They stood erect on this, and were in contact one 

 with another, as is the case with the eggs of Sialis lutaria (the 

 alder -fly). They were white in colour, and were covered with 

 faint reticulations. The photograph of the imago is natural 

 size ; that of the ova is magnified twenty diameters. 



Brockenliurst. 



JOTTINGS ON APHIDES TAKEN DURING 1907 and 1908. 

 By Claude Mobley, F.E.S., &c. 



(Concluded from p. 212.) 



The genus Aphis is a long one, and many of its species are 

 common. A. hrassicce, Linn., was forming large powdery masses 

 on the flowers of Brassica oleracea on June 9th, and is still abun- 

 dant there ; but I have seen no winged forms. At the same time 

 last year I found a little cluster of four apterous A. cratagi, Kalt., 

 on a leaf of Cratcegus oxyacantha in Framlingham Castle moat, 



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