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One, shot in Cowpen Marsh, Durham, about same time. — 



Hogg, 1. c. 

 One, seen, Loch Strathbey, some years ago (1852). — Macgillivray, 



Hist. Brit. B. iv. p. 636. 



To this list may now be added. "One, Maldon, Essex, 

 January 6, 1871." The bird, which is now in ray collection, was 

 shot out of a flock of Brent geese. It is possible that others may 

 have been in company with it and escaped, for no one can compare 

 the two species without being struck by the similarity of their 

 structure, and the consequent adaptation of such structure to 

 similar habits. Unfortunately this specimen was not sexed, nor 

 was the sternum preserved, hence an opportunity has been lost of 

 comparing the internal structure with that of allied species. The 

 skin, however, is a very perfect one, and was quite fresh when it 

 reached me. 



J. Edmund Harting. 



February 4, 1871. 



Li/e-Hislories of Sawjlies. Translated from the Dutch of M. S. C. 

 Snellen van Vollenhoven, by J. W. May, Esq. 



(Continued from Zool. S. S. 2481.) 

 DiNEURA AlNI, L. 



Fahricius, Syst. Viez. 31, 12. King, Die Blaltivespen u.s.w. in 

 Magazin, Ser Jahrg. p. 83, No. 74. St. Fargeau, Monographie, 

 p. 71, No. 217. Hartig, Blall-und Holzwespev, p. 288, No. 6. 

 Dahlbom, Clavis novi Hym. Syst. p. 25, No. 26. 



The larva of this species seems to have been described, before 

 Dahlbom, by Bergman, in the 'Transactions' of the Swedish 

 Academy of Sciences (1763, p. 161), under the name of Canal 

 grafvare (channel digger) : this paper is quoted by Dahlbom. 

 Klug and St. Fargeau refer to this species, figs. 1 — 3 of Reaumur, 

 ' Memoires' V. (Mem. 5, pi. 11) : this is, however, incorrect, as has 

 been suggested by Hartig, loc. cit. The larva occurs, on the 

 whole, not unfrequently ; and it may be considered strange that it 

 has so seldom attracted the notice of entomologists, as its method 

 of consuming the leaves on which it feeds — the channel-making of 

 Bergman — is well calculated to catch the attention of the passer 



