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records from gravel heaths are Andrena fuscipes (Kir by), both sexes Nomansland 

 Common, Wheathampstead, 18.viii.1992 and Berkhamsted Common golf course (no 

 sand bunkers there), 17.viii.1993. Also shown were examples of the social wasp 

 Dolichovespula media (Retz.), male 20.viii.1993, Watton-at-Stone, light and dark 

 workers 15.vii.1993, Welwyn, queen 16. ix. 1992 sitting on an empty nest, Nomansland; 

 a male Anthidium manicatum (L.) (Megachilidae) taken 15.viii.1993 by Enid Evans 

 in her Berkhamsted garden, apparently the only record in Herts, since 1933. 



Walker, D. H. — A series of a chafer wasp, Campsomeriella thoracica F. 

 (Scoliidae), collected in Saudi Arabia, showing both males and females. The latter 

 are about twice the size of the males and differ markedly in appearance. The sexes 

 also differ in their habits; the males frequent flowers while the females patrol areas 

 of short turf. The females somehow locate chafer beetle larvae under the turf and 

 then lay a single egg on the grub. The wasp larva feeds as an ectoparasite on the 

 chafer grub. 



Orthoptera 



Cronin, A. R. — Three unidentified grasshoppers collected February 1993 in San 

 Pablo in the Phillipines. 



Menzies, I. — Some recently observed sites for the cone-head crickets in north-east 

 Surrey. The short-winged cone-head, Conocephalus dorsalis (Lat.): 12.viii.1992 

 colonies found at three separate sites on Bookham Common; 19.viii.1993 a large 

 colony seen in a relatively dry grassy area on Epsom Common; 22.vii.1990 a small 

 colony observed in a grassy area with Juncus and bracken alongside Penn Pond, 

 Richmond Park. The long-winged cone-head, Conocephalus discolor (Thunb.): 

 12.viii.1990 a male observed in grass near Merrit's Cottage, Bookham Common, also 

 a colony has been found on the Western Plain and noted to be thriving in the summer 

 of 1993; 22. ix. 1991 a colony at Downside, south of Leatherhead; 21.viii.1993 a small 

 colony in a grassy clearing of Caen Wood, Ashtead Common; 30.viii.1993, a single 

 adult male found amongst grass at Howell Hill Nature Reserve, Cheam; 26.viii.1993 

 a single adult male in a grassy area of Warren Farm field, Nonsuch Park, Cheam. 



Neuroptera 



Halstead, A. J. — A single specimen of the widespread but scarce lacewing 

 Drepanepteryx phalaenoides (L.) (Hemerobiidae). This was swept at the margin of 

 deciduous woodland and chalk meadow at The Sheepleas, near West Horsley, Surrey, 

 on 7.viii.l993. 



Reptilia 



Walker, D. H. — A desiccated specimen of a hatchling hawk-billed turtle, 

 Eremochelys imbricata, found dead in sand dunes at Rastanura, Saudi Arabia, in 1986. 



Illustrations 



Clarke, J. — A series of photographs of an attempt to breed Bembecia 

 chrysidiformis (Esp.), including adults, eggs, larvae and pupae. Moths were artificially 

 fed on sugar solution each morning then placed in a cage containing a mature great 

 water dock and the cage placed in direct sunshine. The female began calling as soon 



