5074 Insects. 



Mr. Newman's, unknown, is hardly to be wondered at, considering 1 the little attention 

 then paid to those minute differences now found to be so essential, and the known va- 

 riableness of the species of this genus. Zetterstedt appears to have captured it during 

 his Lapland tour in 1821, and, when separating the species from its allies, in a most 

 admirable description (written previously to 1832, though not published till 1840), 

 adds, " Difficultas species hujus generis inter se valde affines diagnoscendi veniam da- 

 bit prolixae descriptioni." — Id. 



Nomada xanthoslicta.— For the last three seasons I have taken this species in com- 

 pany with Andrena analis, of which it is in all probability the parasite. When Mr. 

 Smith's invaluable work on our bees made its appearance, I suspected it to be some 

 variety of N. Roberjeotiana, as the square cream-coloured spot on the fifth segment of 

 the abdomen of the female was particularly alluded to, and on referring to Panzer I 

 found that distinction well characterized. I was the more inclined to think so, as that 

 peculiarity is neither noticed by Smith nor Kirby when describing xanthosticta, though 

 it is equally well developed iu both species. On forwarding a pair to Mr. Smith he 

 pronounced it to be this insect, but he did not know the male, in which the abdomen 

 is — with the exception of the darker markings — self-coloured, all the yellow or cream- 

 coloured spots being replaced by rufous. — Id. 



Fenusa pumila. — Every Micro-Lepidopterist must have noticed the large irregular 

 blotches with which the foliage of the bramble is covered in September and October. 

 My friend Mr. Stainton pronounced them to be the mines of some Coleopterous larva. 

 I determined, therefore, to watch their transformations, and accordingly fouud that 

 they quitted, the mine and penetrated to the bottom of the bottle, in which I had placed 

 a layer of damp sand: here they formed a semi-transparent cocoon (or rather in this 

 case cell, as the side next the glass was flat, so that I could see the enclosed larva? and 

 pupa?), coated externally with grains of sand, very similar to that of many of the Ten- 

 thredinidse. The larva? remained unchanged for several months, and in July the per- 

 fect insects appeared. Neither Klug, Hartig, Le Pelletier nor Brulle notice its 

 transformations, nor can I find that they have been mentioned hitherto in any work, 

 though Mr. Westwood seems to have met with a similar larva mining raspberry leaves. 

 —Id. 



Occurrence of Chcerocampa Celerio near Brighton. — Through the kindness of Mr 

 Mitten, of Hurstpierpoint, about seven miles from here, I have added to my cabinet a 

 specimen of this Sphinx, taken on a shutter in that village, in September, 1852. It 

 was brought to Mr. Mitten alive, and has been in his possession until now. Mr. Mit- 

 ten has likewise added to my collection Acronycta Alni, bred by him in 1853, from a 

 larva found in the previous autumn feeding on Spanish chestnut ; and a female of 

 Endromis versicolor, taken by him in April, 1852. — John N. Winter ; 28, Montpellier 

 Road, Brighton, March 28, 1856. 



Note on Cynips Lignicola and Description of its Parasite (Callimome flavipes). — 

 I have just seen the Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Entomolo- 

 gical Society, by Mr. Newman, containing a notice of the oak-galls so abundant in 

 this neighbourhood, which I have no doubt will ultimately be turned to some good 

 account for the manufacture of ink. The galls in question are stated to have been 

 brought into notice by Mr. Rich, at the November meeting of the Entomological 

 Society. Now I believe this is incorrect: I was the first to take particular notice of 

 them. I sent some of the galls to Mr. Westwood as far back as 1848 or 1849, to ask 

 the name of the Cynips which caused these excrescences, — I sent to him through one 





