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of Igls. Stethophyma fuscum, Pall.—Not very common on a restricted 
spot near Igls. Of the several specimens found only one was perfect. 
All the others, of both sexes, had the elytra and wings so mutilated, 
by some cause or another, as to be entirely useless; a certain number 
of Acari were found upon them. Oedipoda caerulescens, L.—Only very 
immature specimens, fairly common on the Lanserkopfe (8050ft.). 
Podisma alpinum, Koll.—The type form was very common on the 
Patscherkofel, just above Heilingwasser. 
LocustopEa: Barbitistes serricauda, Fabr.—One immature, Amras, 
July 24th. Leptophyes albovittata, Koll.—One immature ¢, Vill, 
below Igls, at about 2600ft. Locusta viridissima, L.—Common round 
Igls. L. caudata, Charp.—One ? near Igls, in grass by the roadside. 
I was unable to findthe g, though I searched with some care. LL. can- 
tans, Fuessly.—Fairly common round Schloss Amras, and extremely so 
in a swampy clearing in the woods at a higher elevation. Platycleis grisea, 
Fabr.—Iels, not numerous. P. roelesii, Hagenb.—Common at Amras, 
in the fields; much less so at Igls. P. brachyptera, L.—One @ Iels. 
Thamnotrizon apterus, Fabr.—This fine insect was very numerous in a 
deep gorge near Innsbruck. I took it first a little below Vill, and from 
that point downwards it was common. 1’. cinereus, L.—Very common 
on the Lanserkopfe. 
GrytLopEA: Gryllus campestris, L.—The field cricket could be heard 
chirping, but we only took one specimen, and we were able to catch 
him as both his hinder tibize were missing. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES. 
Cossus orc, STRECKER, AT THE T'InBURY pock.—In the last week of 
June, Mr. R. J. Theakston gave me a living specimen of what appears 
to be, from the single specimen in the British Museum collection, 
Cossus orc, Strecker, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sct. Phil., 1898, p. 282, or a 
closely allied species. It is a female, and laid a fair number of 
unfertilised ova. He had obtained it from a workman who had it in a 
matchbox and was exhibiting it toa friend. Enquiry elicited the fact 
that it was taken among some wood that was being unloaded in the 
Tilbury dock, the wood having come originally from America. I have 
hitherto delayed noting the capture as inability to get to the Natural 
History Museum, South Kensington, since I became possessed of it, 
has prevented me from naming it. The eggs are very different from 
those of Cossus ligniperda, and one suspects a series of not very closely 
allied groups included in the Cossidae owing to the superficial similarity 
of the imagines and the somewhat allied habits of the larvee.—J. W. 
Tutt, Westcombe Hill, $.E. 
GLYPTA LUGUBRINA, SUPPOSED TO BE PARASITIC ON HeEcaTERA 
pysopEA.—I was yesterday searching lettuce heads for larvee of H. 
dysodea, and, noticing numbers of the enclosed ichneumon on the 
wing, I watched them for nearly an hour. I never saw one in the act 
of stinging a larva, although there were several lying fully exposed, 
but I noticed many of them ovipositing in the flowers and seed-vessels 
of the lettuce plants themselves. Is this usual? I had always 
thought that ichneumons found some living host in which to 
oviposit, but though I opened several of the flowers and examined 
them under a glass, I could find no lepidopterous egg or larya of any 
