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Mr. E. C. Bedwell has discovered in the Lowestoft 

 district, under Erodium, in June last, eight specimens of 

 Odontoscelis dorsalis, Fab. (" E. M. M.," vol. xlv, p. 253). 



Hymenoptera. — Mr. Claude Morley describes two new 

 species of Braconidce parasitic on ants. Spilomma falconi- 

 vihrans, bred from a nest of Formica fusca from Somerset, 

 and Euphorus histigmaticus, hovering over a nest of Formica 

 rufa at Weybridge. Both these species were captured by 

 Mr. Donisthorpe (" E. M. M.," vol. xlv, p. 212). 



Mr. Enock is still actively carrying on his researches on 

 the minute but beautiful family of the Mymaridce, of which 

 he has named many new species ; and he told us quite 

 recently that he still has many more to describe. 



Lepidoptera. — On August 26th last Mr. South exhibited 

 here a curious looking noctuid moth, taken by Mr. Esson in 

 Aberdeen, at sugar, on July 12th last. This specimen has 

 now been presented by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild to the 

 National Collection. Besides being a new species, it appears 

 to represent a new genus ; it is described by Sir G. F. 

 Hampson under the name of Peucephila essoni (" Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond.," 1909, p. 461, with plate). 



A species, new to Britain, Depressnria piUridella, Schiff., 

 is recorded for the first time this year, though Mr. E. D. 

 Green was fortunate enough to discover the larvas at 

 Whitstable in 1906 (" Ent. Record," vol. xxi, p. 221, et seq.). 



Thysanura. — Mr. R. S. Bagnall describes Anaphothrips 

 orchidaccns, new to science, from Northumberland, Surrey, 

 and Dublin, in orchid houses, where it is injurious to the 

 plants. It appears to have been known to horticulturists as 

 the " yellow thrips " from its colour. The same author also 

 describes another new species, Megathrips nobilis, a large 

 species, taken by Dr. Sharp in 1896, from a bundle of dried 

 sedge in Wicken Fen (" E. M. M.," vol. xlv, pp. 33 and 130). 



Trichoptera. — Linmophilns fiiscinervis, Zett., has been re- 

 corded by Mr. Morton, from a specimen taken by Mr. Halbert 

 from Castlebar Lough, co. Mayo, last June (" E. M. M.," vol. 

 xlv, p. 233). 



Last summer, as we are all unfortunately well aware, was 

 not a very propitious season for entomologists. It began 

 well, in May, when the great feature was the abundance of 

 common geometrid larvae, which swarmed in all the woods 

 and some of the parks. In the late summer we were, in any 

 case around London, inflicted with a plague of the larvae of that 

 beautiful butterfly, Pieris brassicce. These did great damage 

 in the market gardens, but were themselves very severely 



