282 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



September. Of A. In gens I have recently made the acquaintance, 

 in the person of a female, at Tuddenham Fen in the middle of 

 last June, though Tuck took it at Southwold in August, 1900, and 

 Chitty at Brandon early in June, 1903. A. glabricollis is doubt- 

 less often overlooked and mistaken for the next species, though 

 Tuck has thrice found it in Finborough Park and Tostock in 

 this county, and I took it at Brandon, Wherstead, and Tudden- 

 ham, Suffolk. Such quantities of A. lineolata are everywhere 

 seen that it is only necessary to say that it has occurred to 

 me in Cambs, Lines, Hants, Isle of Wight, and is ubiquitous 

 throughout Suffolk, where a single somewhat doubtful A. scutel- 

 larue was swept in Tuddenham Fen on June 19th, 1901. 

 Selandna has no common species, all are abundant or quite 

 rare. My only S. Jiavens was captured by Alfred Beaumont 

 towards the end of August, 1899, at Harting, in Sussex; S. serva, 

 on the other hand, is to be seen everywhere throughout the 

 summer months ; and S. straniineipes is abundant in woods in 

 Sussex, Isle of Wight, Suffolk, and the New Forest up to July 

 11th. S. morio appears confined to marshy situations, and is 

 said to feed on willow ; I have found it in the Norfolk and 

 Suffolk Broads, the Isle of Wight and New Forest, mainly in 

 June. S. clnereipes is much more local in my experience, being 

 especially abundant at Brandon, where Chitty also took it in 

 1903, from June 3rd to August 12th ; it has, too, turned up 

 singly at Tuddenham and Barton Mills in the same district, 

 and once near Ipswich on June 29th, 1895, by sweeping reeds 

 at Br am ford. 



Fred. Smith is not the only author who has remarked (Ent. 

 Ann. 1856, p. 100) upon the disparity of the sexes of Strongylo- 

 gaster cingulatiis: he regarded it as about a thousand to one, 

 i. e. a single male " during a diligent search of twenty years " ! 

 But I have not found the female in the profusion he intimates, 

 and the male has twice occurred to me in the Bentley Woods in 

 May, as well as at Denny Wood in the New Forest, whence Miss 

 Chawner has given it me. The only specimen of S. xanthoceros 

 I have seen is that referred to by Mr. Morice (E. M. M. 1908, 

 p. 192), captured by Rev. H. S. Gorham at Great Malvern. Of 

 our four Thrinaces, I possess but a single T. contigua, taken by 

 Beaumont at Blackheath on May 22nd, 1898. Strombocerus 

 delicatidus is a beautiful species, by no means rare during June 

 in woods by beating birch at Assington, oak (a pair) at Staverton 

 in Suffolk, at Hursthill and Matley Bog in the New Forest. I 

 have rarely met with Eriocampa ovata : near Ipswich in 1894 ; 

 on Heracleum sphondylium flowers at Farnham, in Suffolk, on 

 July 24th, 1899 ; and Elliott found it at Matley Bog on June 

 18th, 1907. Our ten species of Poicilostoma — a correctly com- 

 pounded word, whatever one surmise its author may have 

 intended to convey — all appear to be of uncommon occurrence. 



