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the imagines loose. If foreign insects caught on British shores were 

 not reckoned to be of greater value than those at home, there would 

 doubtless be less heard of new British species. The wonder is, with 

 such opportunity and temptation to gain, that many more cases have 

 not occurred. — T. P. Lucas ; Brisbane, Australia. 



The New Forest Cicada. — Perhaps it will probably surprise Mr. 

 Cambridge and other entomologists of the present day to hear that 

 this fine species {Cicada hcEinatoides, ante, p. 147) was taken by Mr. 

 Bydder in the New Forest as long ago as 1815. There is an admirable 

 figure of it in Curtis's ' British Entomology,' from specimens taken 

 in the New Forest by Mr. Curtis and my father in June, 1831. A 

 remarkable fact in connection with this species is that it is more than 

 double the size of Ledra aurita, the second largest species of the 

 Homoptera in Britain. — C. W. Dale ; Glanvilles Wootton, May 4th. 



CicADETTA MONTANA, Scop. — The qucstion of the first recorded 

 occurrence of our only British Cicadid having been referred to by the 

 Kev. 0. Pickard-Cambridge in his interesting paper on Brockenhurst 

 {ante^ pp. 146-150), I may say that the earhest record with which I am 

 acquainted is that of Samouelle, in his 'Entomologist's Useful Com- 

 pendium' (1819), where, on p. 229, he says, *' The only species known 

 to inhabit this country was lately discovered by Mr. Daniel Bydder 

 near the New Forest in Hampshire." There can be no question as to 

 the identity of the species, as he gives a recognisable figure of it 

 {op. cit. pi. ii. fig. 2) under the name of Cicada anglica, — James 

 Edwards ; Colesborne, Cheltenham, April 4th, 1896. 



Notes on various Insects. — Eulophus endocerchus, Walk. This is 

 a synonym of CHnx gaUacum., L., and is a parasite of the Cynipidae. — 

 EulopJms ennagamis, Walk. This I have bred from Coleophra fiava- 

 ginella. — Ceratopogon candidatus, Winn. This I have bred in number 

 from the pith of teasel-stems. — Ceratopogon hipunctatns, L. This 

 occurs commonly under elm-bark. — Scatopse alhitarsis^ Zett. This I 

 have bred from the pith of burdock-stems. — Diloplms vulgaris, L. Of 

 this I have an hermaphrodite, with the wing on the right side dark, on 

 the other light. — C. W. Dale ; The Manor House, Glanvilles Wootton. 



«* Apple -trees and Wingless Moths." — In reply to Mr. Mitchell's 

 query {ante, p. 127), I beg to say I have seen wingless moths by night ; 

 in fact, since this district can claim an additional species, Nyssia 

 zonaria, several of which are depositing eggs in a box as I write by 

 gaslight, my advantages are rather exceptional. On three points 

 Mr. Mitchell and I will agree — the females are more active by night 

 than by day, they have longer and stronger legs than the males, and 

 they are quite capable of walking to the end of a larger oak-branch 

 and depositing their eggs, even although the activity of geometers by 

 night is well known to be limited. The great question is — Do these 

 concessions account for the wide distribution of larvas, or, in other 

 words, for all the distribution ? Clearly not, because in the corre- 

 spondence on the subject (Entom. xxvi. 20) it is stated, in no hypo- 

 thetical language, that males have been seen — the method is not de- 

 scribed — to carry up the females. The statement is borne out by one 

 of the 'Standard' correspondents, who declares, *'A11 fruit-growers 



