COMPOSITAE 589 



Visitors. — Herm. Muller saw 4 Muscids, 2 hover-flies, and 2 Lepidoptera in 

 the Alps. He gives the following for Westphalia. — 



A. Coleoptera. (a) Ceravilycidae: i. Leptura livida Z., po-dvg. (3) Niti- 

 dulidae: 2. Meligethes, po-dvg. (c) Oedemeridae : 3. Oedemera virescens L. 

 (d) Phalacridae : 4. Olibrus sp. B. Diptera. (a) Empidae : 5. Empis livida Z., 

 very common, skg. ; 6. E. opaca F., skg. {5) Muscidae: 7. Lucilia cornicina F., 

 numerous, po-dvg. ; 8. Musca corvina F., do. ; 9. Scatophaga merdaria F., do. ; 



10. S. stercoraria Z., do.; 11. Zophomyia tremula Scop., po-dvg. (c) Syrphidae: 



12. Ascia podagrica F., po-dvg.; 13. Eristalis arbustorum Z., very common, po-dvg.; 

 14. E. pertinax Scop., do.; 15. E. sepulcralis Z., do.; 16. E. tenax Z., do.; 

 17. Melithreptus scriptus Z., po-dvg.; 18. Rhingia rostrata Z., very common, po- 

 dvg.; 19. Syritta pipiens Z., do., and skg. C. Hymenoptera. (a) Apidae: 

 20. Andrena nitida Fourcr. $, casually skg.; 21. A. parvula K. 5, po-cltg. ; 

 22. Apis mellifica Z. 5, in large numbers, po-cltg.; 23. Halictus albipes F. 5, skg.; 

 24. H. cylindricus F. 5, do. ; 25 H. minutissimus K. 5, in large numbers, po-cltg.; 

 26. Nomada flavoguttata K. S, skg.; 27. N. lineola Pz. S, do. ; 28. Osmia rufa Z. 5, 

 skg. and po-cltg.; 29. Sphecodes gibbus Z. $, skg. (V) Formicidae: 30. Myrmica 

 levinodis i\5'^., trying to suck. D. Lepidoptera. {a) Rhopalocera : 31. Coenonympha 

 pamphilus Z., skg.; 32. Polyommatus dorilis Hfn., casually skg. (3) Tineidae: 

 33. Adela violella Tr. S, skg. 



Burkill observed the following on the Yorkshire coast (' Fertlsn. of Spring Fls.'). — 



A. Araneidae. i. Xysticus pini Hahn, lying in wait for prey. B. Coleoptera. 



(a) Curculionidae: 2. Apion striatum K. (V) Nilidulidae: 3. Meligethes sp. C. 

 Diptera. (a) Bibionidae : 4. Dilophus albipennis Mg. {6} Muscidae : 5. An 

 Ephydrid; 6. Helomyza sp. ; 7. Lucilia cornicina i^., skg. and po-dvg. ; 8. Onesia 

 cognata Mg., do. ; 9. PoUenia rudis ; 10. Scatophaga stercoraria Z., skg. and po-dvg. ; 



1 1. Sepsis nigripes il^., po-dvg. (c) Syrphidae: 12. Eristalis pertinax Scop., po-dvg. ; 



13. Melanostoma quadrimaculatum Verral; 14. Syrphus lasiophthalmus Zett. D. 

 Hymenoptera. (a) Apidae : 1 5. Andrena clarkella .S'. S, skg. ; 1 6. A. gwynana K. 5 ; 

 17. Bombus terrester Z. {5) Ichneumonidae : 18. Ichneumon sp. E. Lepidoptera. 

 Rhopalocera : 19. Pieris rapae Z., skg. ; 20. Vanessa urticae Z., do. 



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



Knuth (North Frisian Islands), Apis, 4 hover-flies, 4 Muscids, a butterfly, and the 

 beetle Meligethes ('Blutenbiol. Beob. a. d. nordfr.Ins.,' p.157); (Helgoland), Diptera. 

 All skg.: (a) Muscidae: 1. Coelopa frigida Fall.; 2. Homalomyia scalaris F. S; 

 3. Lucilia caesar Z. ; 4. Minute species. (3) Syrphidae: 5. Eristalis tenax Z. (Bot. 

 Jaarb. Dodonaea, Ghent, viii, 1896, p. 38); (Thuringia), a hover-fly (Melithreptus sp., 

 skg.), and 2 Muscids, skg. (Anthomyia sp., and a small sp.). Alfken (Bremen). — 



A. Diptera. Muscidae: x. Lucilia caesar Z., very common ; 2. Musca domestica Z., 

 one ; 3. PoUenia rudis F. ; 4. P. vespillo F, rare. B. Hymenoptera. Apidae : 

 5. Andrena parvula I^. 5 and 5, freq., skg. ; 6. HaHctus morio F. 5, skg. and po-cltg.; 

 7. H. nitidiusculus ^. 5, freq., skg.; 8. Nomada flavoguttata .K., var. hoppneri 

 Alfken 5 and $, do.; 9. Sphecodes ephippius Z. ; 10. S. sp. Loew (Silesia), 

 a hover-fly (Syritta pipiens Z., skg.), and a bee (Trypetes truncorum Z. J, po-cltg.) 

 (' Beitrage,' pp. 30-1). Verhoeff' (Norderney). — A. Diptera. {a) Empidae: i. 

 Hilara quadrivittata Mg. (6) Muscidae : 2. Anthomyia sp. ; 3. Onesia floralis R.-D. 



B. Lepidoptera. Pieridae : 4. Pieris brassicae Z., skg. Krieger (Leipzig), the bee 

 Halictus nitidiusculus K. Schletterer (Pola), the following Apidae : 5 bees — 

 I. Andrena carbonaria Z. ; 2. A. parvula K.; 3. A. thoracica F.; 4. Halictus 

 calceatus Scop. ; 5. H. malachurus K. Schmiedeknecht (Florence), on the authority of 

 Piccioli, gives the bee Andrena florentina Mgr. MacLeod (Pyrenees), a bee, a Lepi- 

 dopterid, 3 hover-flies, and 6 Muscids (Bot. Jaarb. Dodonaea, Ghent, iii, 1891, p. 360) ; 

 (Flanders), Apis, 9 species of Andrena, 6 species of Halictus, 4 other short-tongued 



