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2. Lucilia caesar Z. ; 3. Syritta pipiens Z. Herm. Miiller (Kitzingen), 4 nect-lkg. 

 beetles — (a) Cerambycidae : i. Leptura livida /^., nect-lkg. ; 2. Stranp;alia melanura 

 Z. (V) Mordellidae : 3. Mordella aculeata Z. ; 4. Mordellistena pumila (zy//^. 



2524. E. Cyparissias L. (Sprengel, 'Entd. Geh.,' p. 266; Herm. Muller, 

 ' Alpenblumen,' pp. 172-3, ' Wait. Beob.,' II, p. 216.) — 



Visitors. — Herm. Muller (H. M.) and Buddeberg (Budd.) give the following list 

 for Central Germany. — 



A. Coleoptera. (a) Cerambycidae : i. Phytoecia nigricornis F., nect-lkg. 

 (Budd.). (U) Chrysomelidae: 2. Cryptocephalus flavipes i^. (Budd.) ; 3. Haltica sp., 

 freq. (H. M., Thuringia) ; 4. Luperus circumfusus Marsh. (Budd.). (c) Elateridae : 

 5. Corymbites aeneus Z., nect-lkg. (Budd.) ; 6. Cryptohypnus minutissimus Germ., 

 nect-lkg. (Budd.). (d) Telephoridae : 7. Cantharis sp., nect-lkg. (Budd.). (e) Mor- 

 dellidae : 8. Mordella aculeata Z., nect-lkg. (Budd.). B. Diptera. (a) Muscidae : 

 9. Anthomyia sp. 5, freq., skg. (Budd.). {b) Syrphidae : 10. Cheilosia sp., skg. 

 (Budd.); II. Eristalis arbustorum Z., do. (H. M.) ; 12. E. tenax Z., do. (H. M.). 

 C. Hemiptera. 13. Lygaeus equestris Z. (H. M.) ; 14. Miris levigatus Z. (Budd.) ; 

 1 5. Stenocephalus agilis .Sco/). (Budd.). D. Hymenoptera. (a)Apidae: 16. Andrena 

 convexiuscula K. S, skg. (Budd.) ; 17. Halictus flavipes F. j, skg. (Budd.); 18. H. 

 viUosulus K. 5, skg. and po-cltg. (H. M.) ; 19. Sphecodes gibbus Z. 5, skg. (Budd.). 

 (V) Chrysididae : 20. Chrysis ignita Z. 5, nect-lkg. (H. M.). (c) Tenthredinidae : 

 21. AUantus temulus Scop., in large numbers, nect-lkg. (Budd.) ; 22. Amasis laeta F., 

 nect-lkg. (Budd.); 23. Hylotoma ustulata Z., do. (Budd.); 24. Macrophya ribis 

 Schr., do. (Budd.). {d) Vespidae : 25. Eumenes pomiformis F., skg. (H. M.). 



E. Lepidoptera. 26. Hesperia sylvanus Esp., skg. (H. M., Thuringia). 



The following were recorded by the observers, and for the localities stated. — 



Loew (Brandenburg, ' Beitrage,' p. 36), a Sphegid (Cheilosia praecox Zell., skg.) 

 and 2 hover-fiies (Chrysotoxum vernale Zzt/., skg., and Eristalis nemorum Z., do.): 

 (Silesia, op. cit., pp. 29, 48), a Therevid (Thereva microcephala Loew) and a hover-fiy 

 (Melanostoma mellina Z., skg.). Schmiedeknecht (Thuringia), 2 bees — Andrena 

 fulvida Schenck, and A. proxima K. Friese (Thuringia), the saw-fly Tenthredo 

 ignobilis Klug. Krieger (Leipzig), the 2 commonest fossorial wasps Pompilus 

 viaticus Z., and Salius fuscus F. Herm. Muller (Alps), 21 Diptera, a beetle, and 

 3 Lepidoptera. Schletterer, for Pola and the Tyrol (T.), a bee (Halictus tetrazonius 

 Klg. 5 (T.), a saw-fly (Arge cyaneocrocea FdrsL), and a wasp (Polistes gallica Z.). 



F. F. Kohl (Tyrol), the Chrysididid EUampus aeneus F. 



2525. E. palustris L. (Heinsius, Bot. Jaarb. Dodonaea, Ghent, iv, 1892, 

 pp. 59-61; Loew, ' Bliitenbiol. Floristik,' p. 165.) — Heinsius says that the inflor- 

 escences of this species are partly protandrous and partly protogynous; those situated 

 in the middle and flowering first being piotandrous, and those nearer the outside 

 protogynous. 



Visitors. ^Loew observed the following in the Berlin Botanic Garden. — 



A. Coleoptera. {a) Dermestidae : i. Anthrenus scrophulariae Z., nect-lkg. 

 (J)) Scarabaeidae : 2. Cetonia aurata Z., dvg. the flowers. B. Diptera. (a) Bibionidae : 

 3. Bibio hortulanus Z. 5, skg. ; 4. B. marci Z. t, do. {b) Empidae : 5. Hilara 

 maura F., skg. (c) Muscidae: 6. Anthomyia sp. ; 7. Sarcophaga carnaria L. 

 {d) Syrphidae : 8. Eristalis nemorum Z. ; 9. Melanostoma mellina Z., skg.; 10. Syritta 

 pipiens Z., do. C. Hymenoptera. Apidae: 11. Andrena fasciata Wesm. 5, 

 po-c!tg. ; 12. A. fulva Schr. 5, do.; 13. A. nitida Fourcr. 5, skg. and po-cltg.; 

 14. Apis mellifica Z. 5, eagerly skg., and removing pollen while creeping over several 

 cyathia. 



