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THE BRITISH NATURALIST. 



January 



was created a Companion of the Bath, June 3rd, 1873, and shortly 

 afterwards made a K.C.B. ; and in January, 1879, he was elected a 

 Foreign Member of the Berlin Academy of Science. 



Errata. 



Vol. 11. p. 254, line 6, instead of " Inula dyseuterica, or as it is some- 

 times called Conyza squarrosa " read Inula dysenterica and 1. squaraosa y 

 or as it is sometimes called Conyza squarrosa." 



General Notes. 



C re mastogas t e r Scutellaris. — My wife purchased some apples 

 at a shop in Plymouth about the 8th November last, a few days after 

 was about to make use of one, she discovered a hole where appar- 

 ently an apple moth larva, Carpocapsa pomonella, bad escaped, to her 

 surprise found the core inhabited by the above named Ant, a female ; 

 and a Cicade in the pupa stage, both were sent to Mr. E. Saunders, 

 who identified the Ant and remarked " The Homopteron I do not 

 know, but it reminds me of an immature Issus." He also drew my 

 attention to the fact that, I am not the first to record its capture in 

 England ; by a note in the E. M. M. for July, 1889. Dr. Mason 

 exhibited a number of specimens at the meeting of the Entomological 

 Society of London on the 5th June, his specimens were all taken in a 

 fernery, at Burton-on-Trent, and supposed to have been imported 

 from the South of Europe, with cork. — G. Bignell, F.R.S., Stone- 

 house, Plymouth, 31st December, 1892. 



The Season in Northumberland, 1892 — I see that the Collectors 

 in the South of England appear to have had a good season. In this 

 part of Northumberland it was a bad one, about the worst that I ever 

 collected in. The weather in May was dull and cold, and the rain- 

 fall was over four inches. June gave us nearly four inches of rain, 

 whilst the 7111, 8th, and 9th of that month were the only hot days we 

 had all the summer. On those three, the Thermometer registered in 

 the shade 84, 82. and 87 degrees respectively. July was a dull 

 month, but with less rain than June. August, dull and wet, rainfall, 

 4-! inches. September was about an average month, and October 

 excessively wet, the rainfall being over 5^- inches. — John Finlay, 

 Morpeth , Northumberland. 



Demas coryli and Numeria PULVERARiA. — In Sept., 1891, I bear 

 some larvae from Hazel that were new to me, and this year I have 

 reared from them Demas coryli and Numeria pulveraria, both new to me 

 in this part of the country. — John Finlay, Morpeth. 



