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The Irish Naturalist, 



September, 



Magazine. The former is a Lough Neagh insect, and the 

 latter has its headquarters on the coasts of DubHn, Meath, 

 and Louth ; neither of them have been found in Great 

 Britain. 



Hymenoptera. 



Mr. Claude Morley^ gives a short account of the Ichneu- 

 mon flies of the Hahday collection of Hymenoptera, now in 

 the possession of the Irish National Museum. This part 

 of the collection has been recently arranged by Mr. Morley, 

 and he has been successful in discovering many type 

 specimen of the species described by Haliday. As the great 

 majority of the specimens are unlabelled this is a valuable 

 improvement in the collection, and greatly enhances its 

 value for future reference. 



A verification of Mr. Morley's remark that the females of 

 Ichneumon lugens, Grav., " are said to pass the winter in the 

 perfect state " is supplied by Rev. W. F. Johnson^ who has 

 found this ichneumon hybernating under loose birch bark 

 in Carr's Glen near Belfast. 



A paper by Mr. H. K. Donisthorpe^ on the ants of the 

 genus Myrmica contains lists of Irish localities, sufficient 

 to show that the species are widely distributed, though in 

 the case of Myrmica lohicornis there is but a single Armagh 

 record. 



A beautiful coloured figure* of the parasitic bee Psithyrus 

 distinctus, Perez, appears in the Entomologisf s Monthly 

 Magazine. Mr. Sladen remarks that the specimens from 

 which these figures were made " were bred at Dover in a nest 

 of Bomhus lucorum from a female sent me by Mr. H. L. Orr 

 from the neighbourhood of Belfast." This handsome bee 

 is no doubt fairly common in the north of England, in 

 Scotland, and in the north of Ireland, and it is probably 

 parasitic on the Bumble Bee Bomhus lucorum. 



^Entomologist, xlvi. (1913), p. 259. 

 ^ Entom. Mo. Mag., xlviii. (1912), p. 91. 

 ^ Entom. Recordy xxv. (191 3), p. i, &c. 

 ^ Entom. Mo. Mag., xlix. (1913), Plate II. 



