NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 161 



the solitary female I have examined was captured on July 28th 

 1917, by Prof. J. W. Carr, at Lambley, near Nottingham. 



3. EXALLONYX XANTHOCERUS, Kieff. 



Exallonyx xanthocerus, Andre, Spp. Hym. Europ x 1907 

 p. 332, ? . ' * ' 



Head transverse, but not twice as broad as long; frons 

 deplanate; mandibles and palpi flavidous. Antennas uni- 

 colorous bright flavous throughout, as long as head and 

 thorax; flagellum of ? slender with exactly cylindrical joints, 

 of '$ somewhat stout and apically attenuate; in both sexes 

 the^ third joint slightly longer than the stout scape and twice 

 as long as broad, the penultimate half as long again as broad 

 and a little shorter than the apical joint. Thorax nitidulous ; 

 pronotum laterally tuberculate ; metathorax gradually declived, 

 evenly reticulate to base and longitudinally unicarinate through- 

 out. Abdomen with the ? segments three to six brunneous ; 

 petiole transverse, and like base of second segment, striate ; 

 terebra arcuate and a fourth of second segment, or three-fourths 

 of metatarsis, in length. Legs slender and clear flavous, with 

 only the claws and base of $ hind coxae infuscate ; the large 

 hind calcar one-third of the metatarsal length. Wings hyaline, 

 tegulse flavous; stigma semicircular and double length of radial 

 cell; discal nervures wanting. Length 3"5-4| mm. $ ?. 



The male has not before been recognised, and the female 

 t \vas described from Italy. But these insects have been so little 

 worked that it is not very surprising to find this species in 

 southern England ; it is doubtless rare with us and cannot 

 extend far north, as it is unknown in Suffolk. I had the good 

 fortune to beat a single male from oak- boughs in the Wilverley 

 Inclosure of the New Forest on July 11th, 1909. The orange 

 antennae render it extremely conspicuous. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSEBVATIONS. 



H. Bowland-Brown : A Correction. — On page 122 of the 

 present volume the statement is made that the late Mr. Bowland- 

 Brown had bequeathed his collections and library to the Entomological 

 Society of London, with remainder to the Hope Museum, Oxford. 

 This statement, for which I was not responsible, although made on 

 the best authority, is incorrect. Mr. Bowland-Brown's bequest is 

 actually as follows : Such books in his library as the Entomological 

 Society of London does not possess sufficient copies of are bequeathed 

 to it ; with the remainder of the books and the whole of his collec- 

 tions to the Hope Museum, Oxford.— W. G. Sheldon. 



entom. — JULY, 1922. p 



