1018 Mil. A. LOVERIDGE : NOTES ON 



35. MicuoDON sp. (Syrpliidaj). I7.iv. 22. A very bee-like fly- 

 when seen walking up the gauze ; the illusion is accentuated by 

 the faint buzz it gives when caught. 



36. ISCHIODON SCUTELLAUE F., $ = StUPHUS iEGYPTIUS "Wiecl... 



(Syrphinfe). l.v. 22. This hover-fly is very like its English 

 relative in appeai.uice, and does not resemble closely any parti- 

 cular wasp Avhicli I have taken locally. 



37 and 37rt. RnvNcniUM sp., prob. radiale Sauss. (Eumenidse : 

 Diploptera;. 20. iii. 22 & 14.i. 22. A common wasp. 



38. ANCYLpimHYNCHUS Latr. ( = XipnocERUS Lw.) sp., 2 (Dasy- 

 pogonina3: Asilidto). 31. iii. 21. Rare: a pair was taken in 

 cop. in the open. A veiy beautiful general mimic, whose capture 

 recalled exciting moments with my first Asilus crahroniformis L. 

 in CornAvall. 



39. Megaciiile riLiciius Mor., $ (Apida> : Anthophila). 

 7. i. 22. A very common form of bee ; there are many species- 

 with similar markings, either with the transverse bars similarly 

 coloured or picked out in blue or chrome. 



40. SiSYRNODYTES sp., prob. new, $ (Dasypogoninse). 26. viii. 21. 

 This is the only specimen of the above series not taken at Kilosa, 

 but at Mkata River some twenty-five miles away. The model 

 or members of the group of models are almost sure to be found at 

 Mkata, where I did practically no collecting. This fly, so far as 

 my memory serves, was captured because it alighted on my coat 

 sleeve. 



B. General Observations on Insects. 

 HYMENOPTERA. 



The actual specimens referred to in the following notes on 

 Hymenoptera were only received for Nos. 41 and 49. 



41. A species of BETiiYLiDiE, now regarded as Fossorial 

 Hymenoptera (Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1922, p. xxvi). This small 

 liymenopteron, .so ant-like in habit and in the way it runs about,, 

 bites (or stings ?) most painfully. The usual place to lind them 

 was on the back of one's neck inside the collar, where they had 

 probably got b}'- dropping from the thatched roof. Owing to 

 their numbers they constituted quite a pest at Jumbe Mbulu's.. 

 (Singida, Dodoma Dist., 11. x.21.) 



42. CHRYSiDiDiE. (Actual specimens not available, and it is 

 unsafe to give names of others.) Some Chiysids, four in number, 

 on my window had evidently just emerged from their host cell, 

 for one of their number still had the paper cap of its cell adhering 

 to its feet. (Morogoro, 29. ii. 17.) 



43. Xylocopa caffra L. My native collector having left one 

 of these beeis in my butterfly net I received a sting. The pain 

 was very sharp but soon subsided, and no SAvelling resulted. 

 (Morogoro, 10. i. 17.) 



