88 ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES FROM GALASHIELS 



lowest level being at Berwick, when Mr George Bolam took j 

 both imago and larva frequently. I consider this a good I 

 addition here. 



NocUia depuncta. 

 Not at all common here. 



Noctua neglecta. 



Several of this insect have been taken at sugar on our 

 moors. 



Tryphoena 



Extremely scarce here, though Mr Bolam has frequently 

 taken it near Berwick. 



Absence of "Wasps in 1899. 



Though there never were so many wasps as in 1898, there 

 never were fewer than in 1899. There were a couple of 

 weeks of sunny weather in May, and it was then the queen 

 wasps made their appearance, in about the usual numbers; 

 but all the sunny days had frosty nights, and in the 

 morning the wasps were quite benumbed, and later on they 

 took refuge in houses, where they were killed, or died from 

 the exposure to so much frost at nights. About two dozen 

 queens were killed here, but in one place in Northumberland 

 54 queens were killed. I am sure I did not see a dozen 

 working wasps during the whole summer, and I fancy 

 there must have been only one nest in this locality. A 

 correspondent says the wasps this year are nearly all of 

 the kind that make their nests in the ground. 



