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what uncommon bee, Andrena wilkella. The only Lepidop- 

 tera of interest seen were Enclidia mi and Adda viridella. 



A visit to Aberlady on 4th June was a failure owing to 

 the drought, the mossy edge of the marsh, where Professor 

 Beare got some good " Staphs " and other beetles a month 

 before, having dried up ; besides a few common things I 

 only saw one each of PJiilontJius corvimis and Ph. viicans, 

 two Ph. vernalis^ and some Latlirobium atripalpe. On the 

 previous day I captured Lacon inurinus, a good Click Beetle, 

 on the wing, east of Port Seton, and near the same spot two 

 males of Tachysphex pectinipes, a small sand-wasp, which Mr 

 K. J. Morton took near Longniddry in July 1920. On 24th 

 June a small colony — females only seen — of another un- 

 common fossor, Crabro peltarms, was found between Port 

 Seton and Longniddry, not far from the spot where I got a 

 male in June 1916. 



From July onwards, the Plant-hoppers {Homopterd) and 

 Aphides claimed my attention, and many of each were 

 collected ; but lists of these are reserved for future papers. 

 Among the former were Zygina flanimigera (Longniddry, 

 Aug.), Phalara exilis (Burntisland, Sept., and near Penicuik, 

 Oct.), Cicadula fieberi and Eupteryx inelisscB, the last two 

 from an Edinburgh garden where they were captured in 

 September by Dr T. V. Campbell. For much help in the 

 determination of the Aphides I have to thank Mr F. V. 

 Theobald ; among them are the following : — Macrosipliuui 

 tussilaginis, Myzus ranuncidina, Ajztiraphis chrysaiithemi, 

 Capitophorus similis (all from Morningside, Edinburgh, in 

 Oct.), C. hippophaes (Longniddry, Oct.), and Sipha schon- 

 tedeni (Balerno, Sept.). On ferns in our greenhouse, Idiop- 

 terus nepJirolepidis — -a small black species with prettily 

 marked wings in the alate state — was abundant throughout 

 the summer and autumn, as was also Mysus circinnflexics 

 on a species of lilium. For the names of two Snow-flies — 

 Aleitrodes lonicei^ce (on honeysuckle in plantation at Bell- 

 wood, near Penicuik, Oct.), and A. vaporariorum (on 

 tomatoes, Morningside, Oct.), I am indebted to Dr J. W. H. 

 Harrison. 



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