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Stylops melitta on the wing near Woking. — On May 21st I captured a specimen 

 of this insect on the wing about 10.30 a.m. It is so seldom seen at large that I 

 thought a record of its capture would be interesting — it was well up in the air, quite 

 six feet from the ground, and its flight reminded me of that of the Neuropterous 

 genus Semerobius. — Id. 



Dicyphus constrictus, Boh. — At p. 49 of vol. xx of this Magazine, Dr. O. M. 

 Reuter gives a synopsis of the species of Dicyphus, among which appears D. 

 constrictus, Boh., recorded from Perth as having been taken by him on Symphytum. It 

 is not impossible that this species may be found intermixed with pallidus, D. & S., in 

 collections, and be less rare than would be supposed from the fact that Dr. Reuter' s 

 capture remained the only record for the United Kingdom until Mr. Edward Saunders 

 detected two individuals (previously named for me "pallidus" and " pallicornis ") 

 among my typo specimens. One is undeveloped. Both were taken by me in a small 

 copse in the parish of Well, within half a mile of my house, either from ash or white 

 willow, or the herbage under one or other of those trees, on the 29th September, 

 1886.— J AS. Eaedlet Mason, Alford, Lincoln : May 14th, 1888. 



Coccinella labilis, Muls., attached to the nests of Formica rufa. — While collecting 

 Coleoptera in Abbot's Wood, on the 2nd June last, I came across this rare beetle 

 rather commonly in a clearing of one year's growth ; it was a warm sunny day, and 

 they were to be taken in various ways, some by sweeping, others crawling on the 

 ground, or up the trunks of the trees, while many were flying round the nests of 

 F. rufa, accompanied by Clythra quadripunctata. It would be interesting to kDow 

 if this insect has been taken in a similar way before ; they appeared to be very local, 

 although not uncommon in this particular clearing, in the vicinity of the nests, as we 

 found about fifty specimens in the course of an hour or so ; other beetles were very 

 scarce, in fact, what few we did sweep were seized by the ants before we had time to 

 examine them. — C. H. Moeeis, School Hill, Lewes : June, 1888. 



The nomenclature of Dr. Rudoio's new species of Amblyteles.- — Dr. Rudow, in 

 the " Entomologische Nachrichten " for 1888 (vol. xiv), has described some new 

 species of Amblyteles ; on page 85 he describes a male and female as A.fumipennis, 

 Rd. ; and on page 86, he describes another pair also as A. fumipennis, Rd. ; on 

 page 89 he describes a female as A. quadrimaculatus, Rd., this name was given by 

 G-ravenhorst to a female which Holmgren unites with A. fasciatorius, Fab., male ; 

 on page 91 he has used the name A. erythropygus, Rd., this is another of Gravenhorst's 

 names, and is given by Wesmael and Holmgren as a variety of A. palliatorius, Gr. ; 

 on page 133 another is named A. bicolor, Rd., this name was used by Dr. Kriechbaumer, 

 in 1882 (Entomologische Nachrichten, p. 240). The nomenclature of Ichneumons 

 is already so confusing that I think one ought to use as much care as possible to avoid 

 making it worse ; it is scarcely pardonable to iise the same name on consecutive 

 pages, and, although the two G-ravenhorstian names have been sunk into synonyms, 

 I do not think they ought to have been used for fresh, species. Dr. Rudow will 

 certainly have to re-name A.'bicolor, Rd. — John B. Bridgman, Norwich: June, 

 1888. 



