308 THE entomologist's record. 



®^URRE NT NOTES. 



In the Ent. Mo. Maf/.. for October, 1900 (p. 230), Dr. Sharp has. 

 some notes on " Some undescribed species of Tror/ophloeiis with a new 

 Genus." In these notes he describes a species new to Britain taken 

 by Mr. J. H. Keys, near Plymouth, and for which he proposes the 

 name of T. anglicanus. He mentions that M. Fauvel who has seen the 

 species, is of opinion that it is identical with a species T. unicolor 

 found in New Zealand. This is undoubtedly the case, as we have 

 examined specimens at the British Museum, shown to us by Mr. C. 0. 

 Waterhouse, who also thinks they are the same species. In the course 

 of his notes Dr. Sharp proposes the two following suggestions for its 

 occurrence in Britain. " I incline, however, .... to the 

 conclusion that we have here to do with two species almost identical 

 in structure and general characters, produced independently in the two 

 Antipodes of the world, but under very similar conditions." This 

 appears to us extremely doubtful. Later on he writes — " It may be 

 suggested that it Avas introduced many years ago and has become 

 naturalised at Plymouth. Should this species not be found elsewhere 

 in Europe we shall perhaps have to adopt this view." This seems a 

 much more reasonable idea. It would be interesting to know which 

 view Dr. Sharp really takes. 



Among the species of Coleoptera recorded by Mr. Champion {I.e.. 

 p. 235) as having been taken by Colonel Yerbury this summer, in 

 Scotland, we note Pachyta i^cvmaculata, Linn., caught at Nethy 

 Bridge. This is a very interesting capture and confirms the species as 

 British, it having rested until now on two specimens taken at 

 Aviemore. 



At the meeting of the Entomological Society of London, held 

 October Brd, 1900, Mr. M. Jacoby exhibited an ichneumon, Ehyssa 

 persuasoria, taken by him at Blandford, parasitic on Sire.v, and Colonel 

 Yerbury said that he had met with the same species in some numbers. 

 in Scotland. One female observed in the act of oviposition had thrust 

 her ovipositor, which is of about the consistency of a human hair, 

 through an inch of fir trunk. 



At the same meeting Colonel Y^erbury exhibited : — (1) A rare saw- 

 fly, XypMchia caineliis, taken in Scotland this year at Nethy Bridge. 

 The species is mentioned in the old books as extinct in the United 

 Kingdom, and Mr. Waterhouse said there were no modern specimens. 

 in the South Kensington Museum collection. (2) Eare diptera from 

 Scotland including (a) LapJnia Jiava, two males from Nethy Bridge ; 

 (b) Chamaesi/rpJum scaeroides, new to the fauna of Great Britain, from 

 the Mound, Sutherland, where it was common on Umbelliferae under 

 fir-trees in a damp wood, one female also being taken on "the path up 

 Cairngorm, near Glenmore Lodge ; (c) Microdon dcviiis ; (d) Chilosia., 

 chnjsocoma, at mountain-ash blossom, Nethy Bridge ; and (e) Stomphas- 

 tica jJaca, two males from Golspie, September, 1900. 



At the same meeting The Rev. D. Morice exhibited a remarkable 

 hermaphrodite of the bee, Podalirius { = Antliopltora) retiisus, in which 

 the male characters were confined to the left side of the head and 

 genitalia, the right side of the thorax and the abdominal segments. 

 The antennae and hind (pollinigerous) legs were those of a female, and 

 the genitalia half of each sex. 



