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on the railway bank near Kirkcowan Station (Linlithgowshire), 

 where it was very numerous in company with 0. viridulus 

 (Brock). This last locality is about eight miles from the sea, 

 which is possibly of interest, considering that S. bicolor appears 

 to be almost, if not quite, confined to the immediate neighbour- 

 hood of the shore in the Edinburgh district and Lothians 

 generally (Brock). Chorthippus elegans was taken on July 5th 

 and 6th in a salt marsh at Walton- on-the-Naze, and again at 

 Walton-on-the-Naze on July 21st (Yerbury) ; it was abundant 

 along the coast of Lincolnshire at Sutton-on-Sea, Trusthorpe, 

 Mablethorpe, &c. (Porritt). Chorthippus parallelus. — This 

 species, like its congener, C. elegans, appears to be a lover of 

 damp ground. It was taken on August 8th-10th on Mynydd 

 Hill (Stowell); and in Cornwall at Lelant on August 24th, and 

 at Sheirock on September 4th (Yerbury). Mecostethus grossus 

 was taken in the New Forest at Silverstream Bog: the first 

 female, a fine large one, was captured on August 1st, and the 

 first male on August 7th ; four small ones, three males and a 

 female, were taken at the end of the month. Mr. G. Lamb took 

 a specimen of Tetrix subulatus near Milton, Hants, on September 

 9th ; and Colonel Yerbury took the common species, T. bipanc- 

 tatus, at Sheirock, in Cornwall, on the 4th and 10th of the same 

 month. 

 Kingston-on-Thames : January, 1913. 



FIELD NOTES ON BRITISH SAWFLIES. 

 By Claude Moeley, F.Z.S., F.E.S., M.Soc.Ent.France. 



(Concluded from vol. xliii. p. 285.) 



The Tenthredinides is the last tribe of the sawflies in the 

 modern grouping ; it is mainly remarkable for the large size and 

 conspicuous coloration of its members, and the ubiquity dis- 

 played by many of them during the early summer, more 

 especially upon the margin of woods, where they may con- 

 stantly be seen flitting about in the sun and resting upon the 

 leaves of brambles, &c, apparently always at about three to 

 four feet from the ground. The first genus, Scioptenjx, is ex- 

 tremely rare, and I have never seen either of its species ; indeed, 

 of one only a single indigenous specimen is known — that 

 recorded by Rev. E. N. Bloomfield from Guestling, where it was 

 captured as early as April 3rd (E.M.M. 1895, p. 24; not p. 22, 

 as misprinted in the Nat. Hist, of Hastings, 3rd Suppl. 1898) : 

 it is now in Mr. Morice's collection. The five species of Rhogo- 

 gaster, on the other hand, are all of frequent occurrence, though 

 the third and the last occur in most numbers. Chitty and I 



