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Anthophila. — Prosopis, three or four species. Halictus, several species. 

 Chelostoma, both species breed regularly every year, sometimes in numbers. 

 Coelioxys, two species. Megachile willughhiella, circwiicincta, ligniseca, and 

 centunculan's, seldom nidificating-, except the last species,3ut use the rejidy- 

 made holes as sleeping quarters freely. Os7nia rufu, caerulescens, and lecnana, 

 all three species nidificate fairly frequently. Stelis aterrima, occasionally. 

 Anthidium mamcatum, sometimes seen round the posts, often in numbers at 

 the flowers of Stacht/s sylvatica, which is allowed to grow in the garden. 

 Aiithophora fiircata, nidificates sometimes in holes in the fence, but is frequent 

 on flowers of the Stachys. 



Chrysididae. — Chryds cyanea and tymta, both species very abundant. 

 C. pustulosa is not rare, several taken most years. 



EvANiiDAE. — Foenns, two species, sometimes fairly common. — A. H. 

 Hamm, 22 Southfield Road, Oxford : July 1918. 



A new locality for Somatoch/ora arctica Zett. — On the 17th inst. when 

 collecting in Glen Nant, Argyllshire, along with Mr. J. W. Bowhill, I had the 

 pleasure of takiug a cJ of aS. arctica, and soon afterwards Mr. Bowhill secured 

 a $ of the same species. Unfortunately, only passing gleams of sunshine 

 favoured us, but during the day one or two more c^* examples were seen. The 

 locality is farther south than Glen Lochay in Perthshire, which, I believe, bas 

 been the limit of the ascertained distribution of this interesting species in 

 Scotland in that direction. "Whether Aeschna coerulea, with which S. arctica 

 is almost invariably associated, will also be discovered in this Argyllshire 

 locality is a matter for further investigation. The other dragonflies noticed — 

 all already recorded for the county — were : Lihellula quadrimaculata L., 

 Corduleyaster an7iulatus Latr., Pyrrhosoina nymphula Sulz., EnaUagma cyatJii- 

 gerum Charj)., and Calopteryx virgo L. The last named at the beginning of 

 July last year was found by us in great abundance in the same valley and else- 

 where in the Loch Awe district, Ischnura elegans being also common. — Kenneth 

 J. Morton, 13 Blackford Road, Edinburgh : June 21st, 1918. 



"Memoir of the Reverend Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, M.A., 

 F.R.S." By his Son, Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge, M.A., Fellow 

 of JJalliol College. Oxford : Printed for private circulation. 1918. 



In this neat little volume Mr. Pickard-Cambridge has given us an 

 exceedingly pleasing sketch of his father's well-known and attractive per- 

 sonality, in its many-sided aspects as country parson, traveller, musician, anti- 

 quary, and above all as an *' all round " Naturalist, and a prolific writer on one 

 of the most interesting branches of Zoological science. We find that his love 

 of Entomology began at a very early age — his first butterfly, a Colias hyale 

 still standing in his collection, was taken in his eighth year, as long ago as 

 1835 — and his first paper— on "Robber-bees" — appeared in the "Zoologist" 

 for 1852. This volume also contained his first note on the Arachuida, the last 

 contribution that he made to his special subject being dated more than sixty 

 years later. A valuable feature of this little book is the very complete biblio- 

 graphy of his scientific papers, which will not fail to be fully appreciated by 



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