1918.] 163 



Fab. an:l TrihoUu'n nnvale Fab. The last European Catalog-ne (1906) gives 

 trie folio iving synoiivmv: L. pusillas K.\\x<x. — yvnni Allib. = africanus Motsch., 

 and places the insect in the Ostomidae immediately before Thymalus, a genus 

 to which it bears no resemblance. — E. A. Newbeuy, 13 Oppidans Road, 

 London, N.W. 3 : May 12,th, 1918. 



Corticaria eppelsheimi Reitt. at Gomshall, Surrey. — There are but few 

 records of this species from Britain.* It is therefore worth while to note the 

 C!».pture of it in some numbers at Gomshall on June 1st. The insect was 

 detected in a curious way. While resting from ^tlie heat of the sun in the 

 middle of the day, in a very shady spot beneath some lofty pines and beeches, 

 I amused myself by watching a small patch of ground, perhaps a yard square, 

 illuminated by a penetrating gleam of sunshine, and to my astonishment a 

 specimen of O. eppehheimi was soon seen running amongst the thin layer of 

 fallen beech blossoms, etc., at the foot of a pine. Other examples kept on 

 appearing from time to time, till the ray of sunshioe shifted from the spot, but 

 from whence they came [ was unable to ascertain. The insect used to occur 

 freely in the Woking district, in powdery fungus on pine-stumps, with Sphindua 

 duhius, but only odd specimens have been seen here during recent years. — 

 G. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking: June 1918. 



Hoplocatnpa alpina Zett. {pallida Steph.) on Pyrus aria. — Cameron records 

 the capture of this small pallid sawHy on Pyrtis (Sorbus) aucuparia, and Enslin 

 mentions it as being found on Crataegus in Germany. On June 1st I noticed 

 it in some numbers flying round the flowers of Fyrus aria, on the Chalk Downs 

 above Gomshall. This capture is recorded mainly to call the attention of 

 Coleopterists to the " possibilities " of the white-beam tree, when in flower, 

 though the only beetles seen on it on the present occasion were of the com- 

 monest species. On the Continent, in such places as Brides, in the French 

 Alps, I have beaten a great variety of Coleoptera from tlie flowers, certain 

 Omaliids {Amphichroum hirtellum, Anthohiuni spp., etc.), Telephorids, Longi- 

 cornes, etc., evidently having a special liking for Pyrus aria. The tree is 

 common enough on the North Downs and elsewhere in the south of England, 

 but the flowers are not alw;iys within reach. The Rev. F. D. Morice has kindly 

 determined the Tenthredinid for me. — G, C. Champion. 



Parasites of the haiuthorn Trichiosoma. — Dr. T. A. Chapman has at length 

 settled a moot point. In my " Ichneumonologica Britannica," iii, 1908, 

 p. 93, doubt is expressed respecting the parasitism of the large and common 

 Ichneumon, Pimpla instiyator Fab.,+ upon aught but Lepidoptera, from the 

 larger kinds of which it is constantly bred throughout the more temperate 

 parts of the Old World. This was in spite of two records b}' competent 



* Cf. Ent. Mo. Mag. xliv, p. 125, xlv, p. 249. 



t The yar. po-sia Cam. of this Sjx'oies. which has the scutellum maculate, is not unlikely to 

 occur in Britain, and should be looked for here, siuje it has been recently redegeribcd as new in 

 Prussia. Its synonymy is: — Pimpla pocsirr Cameron, Mem. Mancheser Phil. Sec. iliii, 1899, 

 p. ITii, ?; P. iiisti'jalor var. scutellaris Ulbrieht, Mitt- Ver. Natk. Krefeld, 1909, p. 20: P. instigater 

 \&v. poesia Morley, Faun. India. Hym. Ichn. i, 1913, p. 156, <J ?. The known distribution ia ; 

 Germany, India, Assam, and Ceylon.— CM. 



