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neglected order is now rapidly coming to the front, and there are 
now over one hundred workers at it. 
I give my best captures for 1895 — G, named by Dr. Meade. 
Stratiomys potamida. I took two specimens of this fine Fly in 
June on Parsley blooms in the kitchen garden. Thereva annulata, 
Chilosia pigra, * Xylota segnis, Chrysotoxum 8-maculatum, 
* Physocephala rufipes, * Cyrtoneura pascuorum, * Brachychoma 
devia, * Acanthiptera inanis, Limnea marginata, * Pliora rufipes, 
* P. florea, * P. nigricornis, Stenopteryx hirundinis. The last 
named, a thing not unlike a Spider, has a curious history. 
A neighbour found two Swallows in his bedroom which he turned 
out. The night after, on going to bed, ho was disturbed by this 
parasite fastening upon his foot. It is figured by Curtis. 
I took a good Hemipteron, Cyllocoris flavo-notatus, upon an Oak 
tree, also Cixius cunicularius on rough herbage, and Tetraphleps 
vittatus on Fir. In Coleoptera Mr. Frank Xorgate again sent mo 
in June the best thing of the year, Ocypus cyaneus, found running 
on the road near Bury St. Edmunds. In June one of our 
members, Mr. Claude Morley of Ipswich, came over for the day, 
and in about three hours we got over seventy kinds of Beetles by 
sweeping, and looking round the ponds. Mr. Morley is making 
out a list for Suffolk which stands at present at 1575 against 1728 
for Norfolk, and 3241 for England. 
In the general list of captures I may mention Trechus obtusus, 
Pliilonthus fimetarius, Leistotrophus murinus, Anthicus antherinus, 
Timarcha tenebricosa, Choleva kirbyi, Thyauiis suturalis, Aphodius 
obliteratus, Tillus elongatus, Ochina hederm, Apion spencei, 
Orchestes fagi, Phyllobius calcaratus, and Athous niger. 
From Fungi, which were this season very early and abundant, 
I had in June the fine Triplax russica and Pocadius ferrugineus. 
Later on I took Mycetophagus 4-guttatus (one specimen). 
M. 4-pustulatus in numbers, including one variety with the spots 
longitudinally confluent. Also Lietnophheus ferrugineus, Cis 
nitidus, and Xylophilus populneus. 
I was singularly fortunate in my captures of Inquiline Beetles. 
I opened up forty-one nests of Vespa vulgaris, and found 
Metaecus paradoxus in twelve of the nests (12, 2, 8, 2, 2, 2, 1, 7, 4. 
* Bred from the nests. 
