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to develop. The pollen-grains are white in colour, ellipsoidal, tuberculated, 63 fx. 

 long and 25 /x broad. 



Visitors. — Herm. Miiller (H. M.) and myself (Kn.) observed the following. — 



A. Coleoptera. Dervicstidae : i. Anthrenus pimpinellae F. (H. M.). B. Di- 

 ptera. [a) Miiscidac : 2. Lucilia caesar L. (Kn.); 3. L. cornicina F., nect-lkg. (H. M., 

 Kn.); 4. Miltogramma punctata Mg. (H. M.); 5. Onesia sepulcralis, Mg., freq. 

 (Kn.); 6. PoUenia rudis Z'. (Kn.) ; 7. Sarcophaga carnaria Z.(Kn.) ; 8. Scaiophaga 

 merdaria Z. (Kn.) ; 9. S. stercoraria Z., very numerous (Kn.). (b) Syrphidae: 10. 

 Eristalis arbustorum Z., po-dvg. and nect-lkg. (H. M., Kn.); 11. E. nemorum Z., 

 common (Kn.); 12. Helophilus floreus Z. (Kn.); 13. Melanostoma gracilis Mg. 

 (Kn.) : 14. Syritta pipiens Z. (Kn.) ; 15. Syrphus ribesii Z. (Kn.). C. Hemiptera. 

 16. Lygus (Orthops) kalonii Z. (Kn.). D. Hymenoptera. {a) Apidae : 17. An- 

 drena albicrus K. S, skg. (H. M.) ; 18. Bombus lapidarius Z. (Kn.); 19. B. terrester. 

 L. (Kn.); 20. Prosopis armillata Nyl. S, skg. (H. M.); 21. P. signata Pz. 5, do. 



Fig. 158. Astrantia iiiinur. L. (.il'lri- Hcrni, MuIKm). A. IK iniapliiudilc ilowcr i[i tin- (irst (malt^i 

 s-tage. B. Upper part of a hermaphrodittt flower in tlie second (female) stag;n. C. Male flower witii 

 vestiges of ovary and styles. D. Male flower without any such \estiges. E. Ficshv disk (with lo ncctar- 

 pitS' on the ovary of a mali- flower. 2, ^^ 4, 5, stamens ; j-r, style ; 07', o\ ary ; />, petal : s, sepal : si^ stigma. 



(H. M.). {b) Sphegidae: 22. Cerceris arenaria Z. (Kn.) ; 23. Oxybelus uniglumis 

 Z. (Kn.). (f) Vesptdae : 24. Odynerus parietum Z. (Kn.) ; 25. Vespa sylvestris 6'fci^. 

 (Kn.). E. Lepidoptera. Rhopalocera : 26. Pieris sp., skg. (Kn.); 27. Vanessa 

 atalanta Z., do. (Kn.). 



Herm. Miiller saw 7 beetles, 3 flies, 2 Hymenoptera, and a Lepidopterid in thu 

 Alps. F. F. Kohl noticed 3 true wasps in the Tyrol (Odynerus parietum Z. : 

 O. trifasciatus F. ; O. simplex F.) ; and MacLeod 3 Hymenoptera, 3 beetles, and 2 

 Muscids in the Pyrenees (Bot. Jaarb. Dodonaea, Ghent, iii, 1891, pp. 417-18). 



Loew observed the following in the Berlin Botanic Garden.— 



A. Diptera. {a) Muscidae -. i. Graphomyia maculata&o/. ; 2. Lucilia caesar Z. 

 (l>) Syrphidae : 3. Eristalis nemorum Z. ; 4. Syritta pipiens Z. B. Hymenoptera. 



\a) Apidae: 5. Apis mellifica Z., skg. {b) Sphegidae: 6. Cerceris variabilis ; and on 



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