The Zoologist — February, 1871. 2481 



on the sides are black, and on the ventral surface are four rows of 

 black dots. The ovipositor is deep black. 



Wings transparent, the auterior wings of a yellowish tinge ; the 

 costal and post-costal, as also the anal nervure and its branches, 

 are pale yellow ; the externo-uiedial nervure, on the contrary, 

 together with the end of the radial and cubital nervures, with the 

 branches between these three, are brown. In the posterior wings 

 only the anterior nervure and the bases of the middle nervures are 

 yellow. Legs yellow, with reddish-yellow femora and brown 

 claws; on the posterior coxae are some longitudinal black lines, 

 and similar but transverse lines occur on the apophyses and bases 

 of the femora of all the legs. The libiai are clothed with a thin 

 silky pubescence. 



It need not be said that this insect has but one brood in the 

 year. 



Buzzards^ &c., at €obham daring 1870.— In the month of November we 

 were visited by a large flight of buzzards, several of which are still 

 frequenting the extensive woods about here. Two specimens were trapped 

 on the adjoining estate, belonging to the Rev. J. Formby, whose keeper 

 supposed them to be kites. Two hue specimens have also been caught in 

 our woods in vermin traps. I have examined the birds myself, and believe 

 them to be immature birds. They are midoubtedly the common buzzard, 

 and measure forty-niue inches across the wings. The rest of the flight are 

 constantly seen about the woods, and there must be at least seven, if not 

 nine, for on one beat five have constantly been observed together and 

 separately, and on another beat two others are constantly seen which are 

 undoubtedly different, one of them being of an extraordinarily light colour. 

 I attribute this unusual flight to the disturbance of the French woods by 

 the war, for though in former year's we have had six or seven at a time, we 

 have never had as many as eleven before. 



Harriers. — During September and October we had several harriers about, 

 which is also unusual. There was one pair of brown harriers, very long 

 and slender in shape, which I imagine to have been Montagu's harrier; 

 anotbei", a male, in the conspicuous blue and white plumage, looked more 

 like a hen harrier, being rather a stouter bird — l. e., stouter than the 

 smaller bird of the other pair, which I suppose was the male. I noticed 

 that they perched occasionally on trees, but not often ; more often on the 

 ground or on the bushes stuck in the fields to prevent netting. They were 

 generally to be seen hovering at no great height over the fields, or skimming 

 low along the stubbles at about six inches from the ground. 



