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of Igis. Stethopliymafuscum, Pall. — Not very common on a restricted 

 spot near Igis. Of the several specimens found only one was perfect. 

 All the others, of both sexes, had the elytra and wings so mutilated, 

 by some cause or another, as to be entirely useless ; a certain number 

 of Acari were found upon them. Oedipoda caeridescens, L. — Only very 

 immature specimens, fairly common on the Lanserkopfe (3050ft.). 

 Podhina cdpinum, Koll. — The type form was very common on the 

 Patscherkofel, just above Heilingwasser. 



LocusTODEA : Barhitistes serricauda, Fabr. — One immature, Amras, 

 July 24th. Leptophyes albovittata, Koll. — One immature ^, Vill, 

 below Igis, at about 2600ft. Locusta viridissima, L. — Common round 

 Igis. L. caudata, Charp. — One ? near Igis, in grass by the roadside. 

 I was unable to find the 3" , though I searched with some care. L. can- 

 tann, Fuessly. — Fairly common round Schloss Amras, and extremely so 

 in a swampy clearing in the woods at a higher elevation. Platycleis grisea, 

 Fabr. — Igis, not numerous. P. roelesii, Hagenb. — Common at Amras, 

 in the fields ; much less so at Igis. P. brachyptera , L. — One ? Igis. 

 Tliamnotrizon apteriis, Fabr. — This fine insect was very numerous in a 

 deep gorge near Innsbruck. I took it first a little below Vill, and from 

 that point downwards it was common. T. cinereus, L. — Very common 

 on the Lanserkopfe. 



Gkyllodea: Gryllns campestris, L. — The field cricket could be heard 

 chirping, but we only took one specimen, and we were able to catch 

 him as both his hinder tibiae were missing. 



j^CIENTIFIC NOTES. 



Cossus OEC, Strecker, at the Tilbury dock. — In the last week of 

 June, Mr. E. J. Theakston gave me a living specimen of what appears 

 to be, from the single specimen in the British Museum collection, 

 Cosaits ore, Strecker, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1893, p. 282, or a 

 closely allied species. It is a female, and laid a fair number of 

 unfertilised ova. He had obtained it from a workman who had it in a 

 matchbox and was exhibiting it to a friend. Enquiry elicited the fact 

 that it was taken among some wood that was being unloaded in the 

 Tilbury dock, the wood having come originally from America. I have 

 hitherto delayed noting the capture as inability to get to the Natural 

 History Museum, South Kensington, since I became possessed of it, 

 has prevented me from naming it. The eggs are very different from 

 those of Cossus liyniperda, and one suspects a series of not very closely 

 allied groups included in the Cossidae owing to the superficial similarity 

 of the imagines and the somewhat allied habits of the larvse. — J. W. 

 TuTT, Westcombe Hill, S.E. 



GlYPTA LUGUBRINA, supposed to be PARASITIC ON HeCATERA 



dysodea. — I was yesterday searching lettuce heads for larvfe of H. 

 dysodea, and, noticing numbers of the enclosed ichneumon on the 

 wing, I watched them for nearly an hour. I never saw one in the act 

 of stinging a larva, although there were several lying fully exposed, 

 but I noticed many of them ovipositing in the flowers and seed-vessels 

 of the lettuce plants themselves. Is this usual ? I had always 

 thought that ichneumons found some living host in which to 

 oviposit, but though I opened several of the flowers and examined 

 them under a glass, I could find no lepidopterous egg or larva of any 



