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New localities for Bagous inceratus. — In the beginning of last June, I took 

 several examples of this species (recorded as British by Mr. Rye, in the June No. of 

 this Magazine), in a brackish water ditch in the Isle of Sheppey, about two miles 

 from Sheerness. It was very local, only occurring in one little spot. 



I have since taken a single specimen of it at Southend, in decaying sea-weed, 

 on the shore.— G. C. Champion, 274, Walworth Road, S., July, 1869. 



Note on Anax formosus, #"c, at Lee. — A few days since, I discovered that the 

 Lee clay-pits, by the side of Burnt Ash Lane, were frequented by a host of 

 Dragon-flies, of which Anax formosus, not generally a common insect, was the 

 most conspicuous, mixed with Lib. depressa and 4>-maculata in about equal num- 

 bers, and an occasional L. cancellata, &c. I had never before seen A. formosus on 

 the wing, and a more magnificent sight than that of a score of the males hawking 

 over two small ponds, could scarcely be imagined. The females were mostly en- 

 gaged in oviposition, and for this purpose they thrust the abdomen into the water 

 to the extent of about half-an-inch. — B. McLachlan, Lewisham, 13th July, 1869. 



Note on Enoicyla pusilla. — I have two mutilated males of this species (put 

 aside with other odd insects and neglected) which I remember to have captured 

 one autumn, some eleven years ago, several miles from Worcester. I can now 

 reckon four localities in this county where I have found the species. — J. B. Fletcher, 

 Worcester, 2nd July, 1869. 



Observation on Cecidomyia taxi, Inchbald. — Since Bremi (Beitrag zu einer 

 Monographie der Gallmiicken, 1847, p. 25) surmised that the artichoke galls so 

 often met with on the branches of Taxus baccata belonged to a Cecidomyia, Mr. 

 Peter Inchbald has given in the " Ent. Weekly Intelligencer" for 1861, pp. 76 — 77, 

 " an account of the CEconomy of the Gall-midge, and a description of both sexes of 

 the Imago." 



Having just bred the insect from specimens sent to me by my kind friend Mr. 

 H. W. Kidd, of Godalming, I beg to offer the following memoranda concerning its 

 metamorphosis, &c, leaving out all points which by Mr. Inchbald's paper have 

 been satisfactorily settled. 



No cocoon is spun within the closely -fitting nest of whitish leaves composing 

 the interior of the gall. The pupa lies bent on the back, with the head directed 

 upwards. 



An immature pupa examined on the 31st of May, was about a line long, deeply 

 notched between thorax and abdomen, the back of the latter very rough, and of a 

 dull tile-red colour, the strongly arched thorax polished, red ; the eyes black and 

 shining ; the wing-, leg- and feeler-cases entirely and closely pressed against the 

 body, and all these parts deep red ; forehead obtuse, notched in the middle verti- 

 cally ; the basis of the feeler-cases quite smooth ; the outer leg-cases reaching as 

 far as the penultimate segment, wing-cases only half so far ; the outer (fore-) leg- 

 cases the longest, the middle ones shorter, the inner (hind-) leg-cases the shortest ; 

 border of the nine abdominal segments flattened, and, if viewed from above, some- 

 what darker than the body itself. 



On the 2nd of June this pupa had attained the following mature state :— The 



