308 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
GY URRENT NOTES. 
In the Ent. Mo. May.. for October, 1900 (p. 230), Dr. Sharp has 
some notes on ‘‘Some undescribed species of Trogophloeus with a new 
Genus.” In these notes he describes a species new to Britain taken 
by Mr. J. H. Keys, near Plymouth, and for which he proposes the 
name of T. anglicanus. He mentions that M. Fauvel who has seen the 
species, is of opinion that it is identical with a species 7’. wnicolor 
found in New Zealand. This is undoubtedly the case, as we have 
examined specimens at the British Museum, shown to us by Mr. C. O. 
Waterhouse, who also thinks they are the same species. In the course 
of his notes Dr. Sharp proposes the two following suggestions for its 
occurrence in Britain. ‘“ I meline, however, . . . . to the 
conclusion that we have here to do with two species almost identical 
in structure and general characters, produced independently in the two 
Antipodes of the world, but under very similar conditions.’’ This 
appears to us extremely doubtful. Later on he writes—*‘ It may be 
suggested that it was introduced many years ago and has become 
naturalised at Plymouth. Should this species not be found elsewhere 
in Kurope we shall perhaps have to adopt this view.’ This seems a 
much more reasonable idea. It would be interesting to know which 
view Dr. Sharp really takes. 
Among the species of Coleoptera recorded by Mr. Champion (J.c. 
p. 2385) as having been taken by Colonel Yerbury this summer, in 
Scotland, we note Pachyta sexmaculata, Linn., caught at Nethy 
Bridge. This is a very interesting capture and confirms the species as. 
British, it having rested until now on two specimens taken at. 
Aviemore. 
At the meeting of the Entomological Society of London, held 
October 8rd, 1900, Mr. M. Jacoby exhibited an ichneumon, Ihyssa 
persuasoria, taken by him at Blandford, parasitic on Sirex, and Colonel 
Yerbury said that he had met with the same species in some numbers 
in Scotland. One female observed in the act of oviposition had thrust 
her ovipositor, which is of about the consistency of a human hair, 
through an inch of fir trunk. 
At the same meeting Colonel Yerbury exhibited :—(1) A rare saw- 
fly, Xyphidria camelus, taken in Scotland this year at Nethy Bridge. 
The species is mentioned in the old books as extinct in the United 
Kingdom, and Mr. Waterhouse said there were no modern. specimens 
in the South Kensington Museum collection. (2) Rare diptera from 
Scotland including (a) Laphria flava, two males from Nethy Bridge ; 
(b) Chamaesyrphus scaevoides, new to the fauna of Great Britain, from 
the Mound, Sutherland, where it was common on Umbelliferae under 
fir-trees in a damp wood, one female also being taken on the path up 
Cairngorm, near Glenmore Lodge; (c) Microdon devius; (d) Chilosia 
chrysocoma, at mountain-ash blossom, Nethy Bridge ; and (e) Stomphas- 
tica flava, two males from Golspie, September, 1900. 
At the same meeting The Rey. D. Morice exhibited a remarkable 
hermaphrodite of the bee, Podalirius (= Anthophora) retusus, in which 
the male characters were confined to the left side of the head and 
genitalia, the right side of the thorax and the abdominal segments. 
The antenne and hind (pollinigerous) legs were those of a female, and 
the genitalia half of each sex. 
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