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the day previous I had taken it with Clarkella nearly half a mile distant from 

 where I found it with lapponica.—Or. E. Feisbt, 27, Hedley Street, Maidstone : 

 April 1th, 1893. 



Two additions to the British Hymenoptera. — Amongst various insects sent to 

 my father in 1861, is a specimen of Palemon Hparce, Giraud. It is ticketed " Bred, 

 sent by Wiiiter, May, 1861," from Beccles, SufPoIk. Amongst other insects sent to 

 my father by Mr. Winter were specimens of a fly, Lipara lucens, Meig. On 

 August 3 ith, 1877, I took a specimen in tliis parish of the pretty Acoelius erythro- 

 notus, Foerst. These were kindly named for me by the Rev. T. A. Marshall, who 

 tells me the former species has been reared from Lipara lucens by G-iraud. — C. W. 

 Dale, Glanvilles Wootton : April 12th, 1893. 



Paracletus cimiciformis, Heyd., in ants' nests at the Loggerheads, near Mold, 

 North Wales. — Mr. J. E.. Hodges, while hunting for Coleoptera on the 1st inst., 

 found in a nest of Formica flava a small colony of the above Aphid, all clustered 

 together under a mass of " cottony material " on a grass root. When they reached 

 me all the cottony material had disappeared, and I found the Aphids and their 

 larvae walking freely about the tube. On making a mio'oscopic examination of the 

 insects, the antennae were found to differ from the description and figures given by 

 Mr. Buckton (Brit. Aph., vol. iii, p. 67, pi. cii, fig. 4, c, d) ; but Mr. Buckton, who 

 has kindly verified the specimens, writes, " the articulation of the antennae by itself 

 is no certain guide. Indeed, in the specimens you sent to me, those organs differ." 

 — R. Newstead, Chester: April lUh, 1893. 



Note on Hylastes angustatus, Herbst. — Mr. Rye, in his list of " New British 

 species of Coleoptera in 1864 " (Entomologist's Annual, 1865), remarks as follows : — 

 "I have taken a specimen of H. angustatus at Holm Bush, and have no doubt tliat 

 it is mixed with H. opacus in collections." This is repeated by the Rev. W. W. 

 Fowler in his " British Coleoptera " (v, p. 413), who states that it has also been 

 recorded by Mr. Blatch from Mickleham. I may now add that I have recently 

 taken three specimens of it at Woking, and have as many more from Esher ; th& 

 latter were captured by myself in May, 1875, in company with H. opacus. These 

 specimens have a short, but decided longitudinal channel in the middle of the 

 rostrum at the base, and they are smaller and narrower than H. opacus, Er., with 

 the sides of the prothorax more parallel behind. Bedel (Col. du Bassin de la Seine, 

 vi, p. 390) also gives the same characters by which to distinguish H. angustatus and 

 S. opacus. There seems to be a good deal of confusion amongst continental authors 

 as to H. opacus. In the last edition of the European Catalogue (Heyden, Eeitter, 

 and Weise, 1891) the R. opacus of Erichson, Ratzeburg, and Thomson are each 

 given as distinct, Thomson's species being placed as a synonym of H. angustatus, 

 Herbst. The crude figure of S. angustatus given by Herbst would apply much 

 better to JS. opacus, Er., than to the narrower insect generally identified as his 

 species. S. opacus varies somewhat in size, and some specimens are almost as 

 narrow as M. angustatus, but it has the rostrum without trace of a median groove. — 

 G-. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking : April \1fh, 1893. 



