280 [December, 1913. 



become acquainted with this interesting Empid genus and remarkable 

 addition to our List of British Diptera, also for generously placing the 

 specimens unreservedly at my disposal. 



Sussex Lodge, Newmarket. 

 November i4th, 1918. 



Amarochara honnairei Fauv. {glabriventris Rye) at Box Hill. — Among 

 som-e beetles sent to me to look over by my friend Mr. W. West were a few 

 specimens of the above-named rare Staphylinid. They were taken by sweeping 

 between 5 and 6 p.m. in July 1916. Mr. West tells me that there was a bees'- 

 nest in the vicinity, but this may or may not have any connection with the Ama- 

 rttchara, which, according to Continental authorities, is associated with Lasius 

 fvLliginosus and brunneus, and is very rare. First taken in Britain by Dr. Power 

 ill the runs of Lasius fuliginosus at Mickleham in May and June 1863, and 

 described in February 1865, by Rye, under the name of Oxypoda glabriventris 

 (Eot. Mo. Mag. i, p. 212), its rediscovery near the old locality is very inte- 

 resting, since Fowler (Col. Brit. Isls. ii, 1888, p. 47) states that " it has not 

 since been captured," nor have I any recollection of any subsequent record *. 

 The insect is remarkable on account of the short 4th antennal joint, which is a 

 flat plate more than twice as broad as long. — E. A. Newbery, 13 Oppidans 

 Koad, N. W. 3 : Nov. 13^A, 1918. 



Vanessa antiopa in the north of Essex. — Mr. Guy Maynard, Curator of the 

 Museum at Saffron Walden, has kindly supplied the following particulars of 

 the capture of a " Camberwell Beauty " last spring. The butterfly was seen 

 on April 3rd, 1918, sunning itself on the pavilion in the playing-fields of the 

 Friends' School at Saffron Walden. It was captured by C. F. and P. W. 

 Tebbiit, boys of the school, by whom it has been presented to the Satfron 

 Walden Museum. It measures 3| inches across the wings. The surface is 

 slightly rubbed and dull, and the border blanched to a creamy white, 

 indicating a hibernated specimen, and probably an immigrant from the 

 Continent. Mr. Majnard adds that, knowing the school and the science 

 master in charge of the boys, he has every faith in the account given, and 

 there is, consequently, no evidence against the assumption that the specimen 

 was a genuinely wild one. 



[The parts of the coast nearest to Saffron W'alden lie more or less south of 

 east, and from 35 to 45 miles distant. — ^^Eds.] 



* Mr. E. G. Elliman (Ent. Mo. Mag. xxxiii, p. 279) mentions the capture of two specimens of 

 *• Ilyobates glabriventris " on June 6th, 1397, by sweeping in a wood in the Chilterna district.— Eds. 



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