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recurrent nervures meeting transverso-cubitals ; apical plate of 

 abdomen narrow, ferruginous. 



Hab. Yallingup, S.-W. Australia, September 14th-October 

 31st, 1913 (R. E. Turner). Two females. British Museum. 

 Resembles E. inconspicua, Ckll., but readily distinguished by 

 the black legs and shining mefcathorax. Readily known from 

 E. nigra, Sm., by the normal antennae and the shining, polished 

 abdomen. 



Euryglossa latissima, sp. n. 



$ . Length about 4| mm. ; very broad and robust, with thin 

 white hair ; head and thorax olive-green, shining, the front dull ; 

 head very broad ; mandibles cream-colour, with bidentate dark 

 rufous apex ; labrum dark ; clypeus sparsely punctured ; flagellum 

 ferruginous beneath ; mesothorax microscopically lineolate ; tubercles 

 densely fringed with white hair ; legs black or slightly chalybeous 

 basally, but knees, tibiae and tarsi ferruginous, the middle and hind 

 tibiae largely dusky ; tegulse pale testaceous ; wings hyaline, stigma 

 dark rufous, nervures pallid ; second s. m. very large, quadrate, 

 receiving first r. n. near base ; second r. n. meeting second t. c. ; 

 abdomen shining, very broad, honey-colour, the first segment mainly 

 piceous, tlie following three with narrow subapical dusky bands and 

 suffused dusky lateral spots. 



Hah. Eaglehawk Neck, S.-E. Tasmania, February 12th- 

 March 3rd, 1913 (R. E. Turner). British Museum. To be com- 

 pared with E. rubiginosa, D. T., but without the dense fulvous 

 hair of that species. 



GARDEN NOTES. 

 By Claude Morley, F.Z.S. 



We constantly find in the English periodicals a multiplicity 

 of records from moors, fens, marshes, mountains, and all kinds 

 of wild corners where insects most do congregate, because they 

 are undisturbed by our civilization ; but how seldom are pub- 

 lished notes from those spots actually inhabited by entomo- 

 logists and consequently those where most leisure can be enjoyed 

 to note details of history and habits ! In treating of a particular 

 spot, such as one's own garden, it is well to set forth the 

 geological formation undei^ying it, since upon this depends the 

 soil of the district and consequently a large percentage of the 

 vegetation upon which the great majority of its insects subsist. 

 The garden of Monk Soham House is about four acres in extent 

 (including the paddock), and lies almost in the centre of High 

 Suffolk, a somewhat vague district, which may be said to be a 

 ridge of somewhat elevated tableland obliquely crossing the 

 county from north-east to south-west. The surface soil is com- 

 posed of the Great Chalky Boulder Clay, which at certain points 



