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New localities for Bagbus inceratus. -In the beginning of last June, I took 
,ral examples of this species (recorded as British by Mr. Eye, in the June No. of 
Magazine), in a brackish water ditch in the Isle of Sheppey, about two milea 
Sfl Sheerness. It was very local, only occurring in one little spot. 
\ I have since taken a single specimen of it at Southend, in decaying sea-weed, 
i:he shore.- G. C. Champion, 274, Walworth Koad, S., Juhj, 1869. 
I Note on Anax formosus, ^c, at Lee.-A few days since, I discovered that the 
I clay-pits, by the side of Burnt Ash Lane, were frequented by a host of 
Lgon-flies, of which Anax formosus, not generally a common insect, was the 
,st conspicuous, mixed with Lib. depressa and 4.-maculata in about equal num- 
[s, and an occasional L. cancellata, &c. I had never before seen A. formosus on 
I wing, and a more magnificent sight than that of a score of the males hawking 
Br two small ponds, couid scarcely be imagined. The females were mostly en- 
ged in oviposition, and for this purpose they thrust the abdomen into the water 
the extent of about half-an-inch.-R. McLachlan, Lewisham, Uth July, 1869. 
Note on Enoicyla pusilla.-l have two mutilated males of this species (put 
ide with other odd insects and neglected) which I remember to have captured 
ie autumn, some eleven years ago, several miles from Worcester. I can now 
ckon four localities in this county where I have found the species.— J. E. Flktcher, 
orcester, 2ncl July, 1869. 
Ohservation on Cecidomyia taxi, IncUald.-Smce Bremi (Beitrag zu einer 
[onographie der Gallmiicken, 1847, p. 25) surmised that the artichoke galls so 
ften met with on the branches of Taxus haccata belonged to a Cecidomyia, Mr. 
^eter Inchbald has given in the " Ent. Weekly Intelligencer" for 1861, pp. 76-77. 
I an account of the (Economy of the Gall-midge, and a description of both sexes of 
'he Imago." 
' Having just bred the insect from specimens sent to me by my kind friend Mr. 
■I. W. Kidd, of Godalraing, I beg to offer the following memoranda concerning its 
'netamorphosis, &c., leaving out all points which by Mr. Inchbald's paper have 
jeen satisfactorily settled. 
' No cocoon is spun within the closely-fitting nest of whitish leaves composing 
the interior of the gall. The pupa lies bent on the back, with the head directed 
upwards. 
An immatui-e pupa examined on the 31st of May, was about a line long, deeply 
notched between thorax and abdomen, the back of the latter very rough, and of a 
dull tile-red colour, the strongly arched thorax polished, red ; the eyes black and 
shining; the wing-, leg- and feeler-cases entirely and closely pressed against the 
body, and all these parts deep red; forehead obtuse, notched in the middle verti- 
cally ; the basis of the feeler-cases quite smooth ; the outer leg-cases reaching as 
far as the penultimate segment, wing-cases only half so far; the outer (fore-) leg- 
cases the longest, the middle ones shorter, the inner (hind-) leg-cases the shortest ; 
border of the nine abdominal segments flattened, and, if viewed from above, some- 
what darker than the body itself. 
On the 2nd of June this pupa had attained the following mature state :— The 
