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FIFTY YEARS ENTOMOLOGY IN BRISTOL. 
Hemiptera. The Order has been very little worked in the dis- 
trict, but some rare and local species have been recorded ; amongst 
others, Salda pilosa on the Severn bank, under seaweed, and 
Notonecta maculata in ditches at Ashton, also at Glastonbury bv 
Mr. Dale. 
Homoptera. Ledra Aurita has been taken in the Leigh Woods 
by Mr. Charbonnier, and at Portbury. Macropsis lanio has 
occurred at Shirehampton and Batheaston, and Tettigonia viridis 
at Stapleton and Batheaston. 
Diptera. We have already referred to Mr. H. J. Charbonnier 's 
list of the " Diptera of the Bristol District " recording 690 species : 
this number will undoubtedly be greatly augmented when the 
district is thoroughly worked. Amongst rare species we may note 
Epidapus scabiei, a minute gnat bred by Mr. Charbonnier from 
decaying Narcissus bulbs in Clifton, the only other record of the 
species being by Mr. A. D. Hopkins in Proc. Ent. Soc, Wash- 
ington, Vol. III., p. 149. Oncodes pallipes taken on Leigh Down, 
and also recorded from W^ells. Mr. Charbonnier captured one 
specimen of the very rare Rhagolctis cerasi in the garden of Bristol 
University 
Neuroptera and Trichoptera. The list of insects of these 
two small Orders given in the Somerset County History is very 
meagre, but there seems good reason to believe that it should be 
largely extended. Several species of " Lace- wing flies," 
Chrysopa, occur in the woods at Leigh and Portbury, and one of 
the Hemerobiidce , Psectra diptera, taken atLangport, by Mr. C. W. 
Dale, is the sole British specimen known, and only six others 
have been taken in Europe. 
G. C. G. 
