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NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



HipPOTiON (Ch^rocampa) celerio at Birkenhead. — It may be 

 of some interest to note that I saw, but did not mifortmiately capture, 

 a specimen of G. celerio in the garden yesterday evening at dusk. It 

 was hovering over the flowers of lupin and other plants. I feel 

 certain that I made no mistake, as the moth was within two feet of 

 me, and I got a very good view of it. — Ealph Eylands ; Highfields, 

 Bidston Eoad, Birkenhead, June 12th, 1911. 



Clytus arcuatus in North-East London. — A specimen of this 

 beetle was found on a wall in Wick Eoad, Hackney, on June 10th. 

 It was shown by Mr. J. O. Braithwaite, at the meeting of the North 

 London Natural History Society, at Finsbury, on June 13th. — 

 V. Gerrard ; " Kenmore," Connaught Avenue, Chingford, Essex, 

 June 24th, 1911. 



iEoERIA ANDREN^PORMIS IN ViBURNUM OPULUS. — On May 19th 



last I was agreeably surprised to find an old burrow of JEgcria 

 andrenceformis in a branch of guelder rose {Viburnum opulus). On 

 opening it I found it liad produced an ichneumon ! I have frequently 

 searched V. opulus for signs of this species, but this is tlie only 

 burrow I have detected. V. lantana is much more common than 

 V. opulus in this district — Mid-Kent. Is V. opuhis more often bored 

 in localities where V. lantana does not so largely predominate ? — 

 P. P. MiLMAN ; Burham, near Eochester, June 16th, 1911. 



Lepidoptera at Light in the Haslebiere District. — On 

 Monday night, June 5th, I took the following insects, on a white 

 sheet placed in front of two acetylene lamps : Stauropus fagi (three 

 males), Palimpsestis fiuctuosa, and one example of Drymonia tri- 

 viacula (dodonea). Some twenty other quite decent things were 

 secured. Nearly everything turned up late as usual ; the S. fagi did 

 not appear until between 11.45 p.m. and 12.15 a.m. Mr. Norman 

 Eiley, of the South London Entomological Society, was witli me at 

 the time. — Bertram E. Jupp ; Lyn Lodge, Camelsdale, Haslemere, 

 June 16th, 1911. 



Eristalis oestraceus, L., in North America (Diptbra). — Several 

 species of Syrphidse are known to be common to Europe and North 

 America, but an addition to the list of sucli species has been made 

 by Mr. Ernest E. Austen (Ent. Mo. Mag. xxii. 2nd series, p. 63). 

 When determining a female specimen of Eristalis, from East Prussia, 

 recently presented to the National Collection by the Hon. N. C. 

 Eothschild, Mr. Austen found that it was referable to E. oestraceus, 

 L. At the same time he discovered that the specimen described by 

 Walker, some sixty years ago, as E. cestriformis was specifically 

 identical with E. oestraceus, L. 



Chrysopa plava (Neuroptera). — In connection with Miss E. M. 

 Alderson's paper {antea, p. 126) on this lacewing fly, the following 

 records may be of interest for dates and localities. June 14th, 1896, 

 one at the Black Pond, Esher Common, Surrey, by the side of its 

 transparent filmy pupa-case ; the wings were not fully expanded. 

 July 1st, 1901, one received from Twickenham, Middlesex. June 7th, 



