I 76 NOTE—LINCOLNSHIRE HYMENOPTERA. 
Thad reported Mnium affine Bland to my friend Mr. F. A. Lees 
in the course of the preparation of the ‘Flora of West Yorkshire, 
from the Boroughbridge road, York, on the strength of an opinion 
_ expressed by Mr. Boswell when I showed him certain specimens 
specimens to Mr. Boswell for a second examination, and they were 
then recognised as being JAZ. rostratum. They were only barren 
shoots. The mention of Polygala austriaca was occasioned by my 
discovery of the plant at Caterham. a 
OxrorD, 3oth July, 1888. : ee 
I was so 
dept 
barren shoots resemble those of affine very closely, but it is a plant of drier p wo 
4. affine likes rills and marshes, 1 suppose that Lees knew the ground, and tit 
the locality was dry, and hence came his doubts. + T have: 
n British mosses I have no news lately, but as some compensation I of 
received four or five hundred from India and Tasmania: beautiful things ma"Y 
them, but hard work and taking up much time. 
Polygala austriaca is a nice find 3 I never fell in with it. i 
hope the remove carries a good increase of pay, and that the - 
Soon pass. But it is a season enough to make one ill. 
Yet how mosses are growing ! 
will : j o 
Yours very truly, - aa - 
The official ‘remove’ alluded to carried’ no pecuniary : re 
whatever! My correspondent rightly spoke of ‘ Nidd —. ae : 
connection with the supposed J. affine; the Boroughbniegt the < 
locality should have been given under N. instead of W. i ™ 
‘ Flora.’ : 
NOTE—HYVMENOPTERA. 
Sirex juvencus and other Lincolnshire. 
Summer (Sept. 1896) a fine specimen of Serex juvencus alive, : 
of Sirex giyas. “And along with these an exceedingly fine § 
striking Ichneumon Rhyssa Persuasoria, This specimen measure 
inches from its head to the end of its long ovipositor. It seems pro unusually 
grub must have fed upon Sivex larve, which appear to have nie 
Syumon last year. All these specimens were received from } - neighbour 
Woolward, of Belton, near Grantham (Lincs.), and were taken in tha - 
hood.—A, THORNLEY, South Leverton Vicarage, Lincoln. —ist 
