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over all parts of the country would have been found, since it is unlikely 

 this locality should, in reality, be a more favourable one than others. 

 Here no one beside myself, except in tlie case of V. sylvestris, has 

 discovered a nest, but all have declared that they " have not seen a 

 a single wasp this year." I should doubtless have been unsuccessful, 

 but that I had resolved upon procuring nests if they were to be found, 

 and both eye and ear, and time and attention, were forthwith wholly 

 engaged in the search. The result goes to prove that, however adverse 

 a season may be, a number of the Vespidae sufficient to preserve the 

 race, and prevent its extinction, will be sure to be enabled to struggle 

 through it. S. Stone. 



October, 1860. 



Capture of Haltica A tropes in Britain. — I beg to send you some specimens of a 

 Haltica new to Britain, the Haltica Crepidodera Atropae ; it was first taken by my 

 friend Mr. John Gray, on the deadly nightshade (Atropa Belladonna) • Mr. Wollas- 

 ton and I subsequently joined Mr. Gray in a second visit to the locality, and we took 

 two or three hundred amongst us. Dr. Power had previously taken the same species 

 near Eeigate, and had the specimens undetermined in his boxes : I had also taken 

 some specimens some years ago near Northampton. — Hamlet Clark ; October 8. 



Occurrence of Bagous nodulosus in Hammersmith Marshes. — I beg to send you a 

 notice of the capture of a new British Bagous. I should have recorded it before, but 

 have been waiting to hear from Mr. Walton. Mr. Waterhouse has kindly gone over 

 the few British species of the genus with (and after) me, and unites with me unhesi- 

 tatingly as to the correctness of my opinion on the point. On the lyth of August last 

 I captured at Hammersmith marshes a solitary example of this species, which is cer- 

 tainly not included in the national collection, or in any other I have had an opportu- 

 of examining. It is the Bapous nodulosus of Schonherr, and must be placed between 

 B. binodulus and B. limosus in our lists. At first sight it resembles the first of these 

 two species, but it is rather broader and not so long. The chief points of difference 

 being that in B. nodulosus the thorax, which wants the constricted hinder margin of 

 B. binodulus, has the dorsal furrow scarcely perceptible, whereas in the latter species 

 it is very distinct. The elytra also in B. nodulosus are much more evenly and deeply 

 sulcated, the interstices being elevated and roughly granulated instead of merely punc- 

 tured, whilst the second from the suture is without any posterior nodule, so that B. 

 binodulus has, on each elytron, four knobs, and B. nodulosus only two. It appears 

 from Schonherr to be an inhabitant of Germany. — E. C. Rye ; 284, Kings Road^ 

 Chelsea, S.W., October 18, 1860. 



Correction of an Error. — I find I have described «he species of Hallomenus as 

 "fuscus" (' Intelligencer,' vol. viii. p. 179) ; this ought to be " humeralis," and is the 

 species described by Mr. Janson in the ' Annual' for 1859, p. 142. In quoting the 

 record of its capture into the ' Zoologist 'it is said I took it "near Lee." It was not 

 taken there.— JoAw Scott ; 13, Torrington Villas, Lee, S.E., October 4, 1860. 



[Mr. Douglas informs me he took this insect at Charlton. — E. Newm.an.'] 



