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pelled. Real hard work produced me nothing but Pentatoma verbasci, De Greer, 

 many on tree-mallow ; Piezodorus lituratus, Fab. ; Peritrechux luniger, Schill. ; 

 Nysius thymi, Wolff ; Phygadicus urticcs, Fab. ; Plinthisus brevipennis, Latr. ; 

 Stygnocoris arenarius, Hahn, and sabulosus, Schill. ; Piesma quadrata, Fieb. ; Lygus 

 pratensis, Fab., L. Kalmii, L. ; Froticoris rufescens, Burm. ; on the most exposed 

 part of St. Martin's, where nothing grows but the dwarfed heather prostrate to the 

 ground, and scathed by the fierce west winds ; Orthotylus Scotti, Reut. ; Nabis 

 ferus, L., N. rugosus, L. ; Notonecta glauca, Fab. ; Corixa Qeoffroyi, Leach, C. 

 affinis, Leach, C. hieroglyphica, Dup. — Id. : February 8tk, 1889. 



Note on Oinophila Van-Jlava. — Some recent observations on the life-habits of 

 this insect have led me to understand why Snellen should have removed it to the 

 vicinity of the true Tinece. (See De Vlinders van Nederland, Micro. -Lepid., 474, and 

 Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, xix, 51.) 



I had collected five of the larvae, which are well characterized by their form, so 

 extraordinarily elongate and narrow, reminding one indeed of larva? of Ochsenheim- 

 eria. The individual joints are so prolonged that the distances between the pairs of 

 legs appear much greater than in other larva?. The ground-colour is bone-white, 

 with the head and thoracic shield brown. 



It makes long silken galleries on the fungus-covered walls of old wine-cellars, 

 feeding on these fungoid growths. It would appear that it sometimes, like a true 

 Tinea, lives in a case, since our esteemed colleague, Frau Diederichs, has bred it 

 from such a case. 



I doubt not that this is capable of a third habit, that of burrowing in corks, 

 but I do not believe it has any exclusive weakness for the corks of the bottles, which 

 contain Madeira or Sherry. It, no doubt, says, like other Tinea larva? : Serviendum 

 est tempori. — E. Hering, Berlin, N.W., Invalidenstrasse, No. 43 : November, 1888. 



Pactr a furfur ana in West Norfolk. — This somewhat local insect I found last 

 summer in the bottom of an old dried-up pit (small pond) near Wisbech. It was 

 flying about in the sunshine in plenty. I had not seen it previously, although it is a 

 spot I am frequently in the habit of visiting. — A. Balding, Wisbech : February, 

 1889. 



Callicera cenea, Fab. — Mr. VerralPs notice of this very rare and beautiful 

 member of the Syrphidce, induces me to send some further particulars. The speci- 

 men sent to Dr. Capron was, I am informed, taken by Mr. Albert Piffard near 

 G-reat Berkamstead, Hertfordshire, August 6th ; Mr. Marshall's specimen at Corn- 

 worthy, near Totnes, July 26th ; while mine was captured at Guestling, near 

 Hastings, August 22nd. All were taken on the flowers of Umbelliferce ; in two 

 cases, at least, on Angelica sylvestris, the flowers of which are most attractive to 

 Diptera and other insects. This insect is remarkable among the Syrphida for its 

 long tapering conops-like antenna?. A good figure is given of it in Walker's Diptera. 



Is anything known of its life-history, or of the kind of localities in which it 

 occurs on the continent ?— E. N. Bloomfield, Guestling : February, 1889. 



