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the shape of the armature seems to be almost the only character common between 

 it and its southern relative — not a trace of any pale yellow setting to the fulvous, 

 which is of a much richer tint, can be found. — F. W. L. S. 



Callicera cenea, F., in tJie New Forest in 1898. — In vol. xxv, p. 126, of this 

 Magazine, Mr. Gt. H. Verrall recorded the capture of three specimens of Callicera 

 cBnea in different parts of England during 1888, and remarked he thought this year 

 would rank amongst Dipterists as the "Callicera" year. This proved correct for 

 some time, as during the following eight years only two were recorded, but in 1897 

 seven came under my notice taken in the Wew Forest alone. This fine record, 

 however, has now been beaten, nine specimens having been secured in the same 

 district during the summer of this year, eight of which were netted by myself and 

 one by Mr. C. W. Dale. Six of my specimens (3 <? and 3 ? ) were taken on July 

 2nd at Ehinefields, where (although so late in the season) most of the rhododen- 

 drons were still in bloom, and I netted the first one soon after entering the ride on 

 the same bush where I saw, but did not secure, Callicera last year. Then three 

 more were added to the bag in about as many minutes, and the fifth was taken 

 shortly afterwards, when, to use a fly fishing expression, " the rise was over," and I 

 never saw another until I took the sixth about three hours later. The first five were 

 all taken upon one bush without moving a yard, and so rapidly did they appear that 

 two were netted with two sweeps right and left and boxed together. On July 5th 

 I took one $ in Brick-kiln Enclosure on dog rose, and on August 11th another $ in 

 the same place on a late flowering bramble which, owing to the very hot and dry 

 weather, was almost the only plant left in bloom. — Feedk. 0. Adams, 68, St. 

 Ermin's Mansions, S.W. : Octoler, 1898. 



Mallota eristaloides, Lio., in the Neio Forest in 1898. — This fine Dipteron seems 

 to be spreading in the New Forest, as this year I met with it in three fresh localities, 

 viz., Coxlease, Brick-kiln and Bolder Wood Enclosures. The first two it is true 

 are not far from Park Ground, where I took the first recorded British specimen 

 (a $ ), but the latter is four miles away, and two miles distant from Ehinefields, 

 where Col. Yerbury and myself took several last year, which all proved to be males. 

 This year I collected six, of which three are fortunately females, as follows : — one 

 ? , June 28th, Coxlease, settled on dwarf oak ; one $ , June 29th, Bolder Wood, on 

 Portugal laurel bloom ; two S , July Ist, Brick-kiln, on dog rose ; one S , July 2nd,. 

 Ehinefields, on Portugal laurel ; one '^ , July 5th, Brick-kiln, on dog rose ; and in 

 addition to the above I saw quite as many more, chiefly on dog rose, which were 

 missed through one or other of the temper-trying incidents so well known to col- 

 lectors. There was a wondei'ful show of blossom on the wild roses this year, the 

 scent of which seems very atti'active to Mallota, and the fly was still out when I 

 left Lyndhurst on July 9th, but I did not hear of any being taken during my 

 absence of a month. — Id. 



Coleopterous notes for August. — August, more especially in a hot dry summer 

 like the past, is usually considered a very barren month for the collector ; I have, 

 however, during the few days I liave given to collecting, been very fortunate in my 

 captures. 



