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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
to be made out. The halo lasted all the afternoon, and was 
observable as late as live p.m. — Charles B. Plowright, M.D. 
On tiie Occurrence of the Black Variety of the Water 
Vole. — In the spring of 1893 a black Vole was caught at Docking, 
as it was entering a hole in the bank of a field on the Manor Farm. 
It was brought to me a few minutes afterwards, and appeared to 
be full grown. Another specimen was killed at Walsingham, in 
a hayfield, duriug the latter part of June, 1894. It was sent to 
Mr. Wilson of Lynn for preservation. — C. T. M. Plowright. 
PeZOMACHUS C0RRUPT0R BRED FROM ClONUS SCROPIIULARIiE. — 
Mr. Thouless gave me a female Ichneumon ( Pczomachus corrupt or, 
Foerst) which he had bred from the larva of Cionus scrophularice, 
a Beetle which he took at Horsford, August, 1894. This is 
interesting, as it is seldom that Ichneumons are bred from Beetles ; 
it may be due, in a measure, that Beetles are not bred to the same 
extent that Butterflies and Moths are. This is the first instance 
I have met with of any member of the genus Pczomachus having 
been bred from Coleoptera ; but I find Herr Brischke records a 
species which was new to science, and which he named Pezomachus 
thoracicus, bred from a Beetle, and, curiously enough, from the 
same genus as Mr. Thouless bred his from, viz., Cionus, but it was 
from a different species, C. verbasci. It may be that, as a rule, 
the larvie of Coleoptera are not favourite hosts of the Pezomaclii, 
that the larvae of Cionus are marked exceptions ; and I would 
suggest to those entomologists who breed Coleoptera that they 
would confer a great kindness on hymenopterists if they would 
note if they find any of these little antdike Ichneumons in 
their case, and, if possible, secure them, and any winged ones 
they might find at the same time, as these winged ones might 
turn out to be the males. Of the several hundreds of the apterous 
female, very few have had their male satisfactorily identified. — 
John B. Bridgman, F.L.S. 
Some Marine Notes from Yarmouth. — Many of my ichthyo- 
logical finds, which have come to hand during the past two years, 
have been recorded by Dr. Lowe in the Society’s ‘ Transactions ’ for 
1893 — 4 (p. G34). A few curious specimens, whoso occurrence 
was not included in that list, may be worthy of mention. 
