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THE entomologist’s RECORD. 
Hymenoptera. 
Hedylus^ nov. gen., for H. habilis^ n. sp., Marshall, Tr. Ent. Soc. 
Lond., March, pp. 14-16. Found by Mr. Bignell in South Devon. 
Opws compar^ n. sp., Marshall, t.c., p. 32, near Nunton, Wilts. 
Opius zelotes, n. sp., Marshall, t.c., p. 40. Devonshire. 
Lepidoptera. 
Si 7 iei'inthus tilice varr. [aberr.] nov. obsoleta^ bipmictata^ centripuncta^ 
costipuncta, and suffusa^ J. A. Clark, E 7 it. Eec., 328, 329. PI. A. 
Mela 7 ithia rubigmata var. nov. virgata^ Tutt, Ent. Rec., 321. 
Melanippe fluctuata var. nov. inwiaculata.^ Tutt, E 7 it. Rec.., 322. — 
T. D. A. Cockerell. 
^JOTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 
Phoxopteryx myrtillana near London. — In labelling my last 
season’s captures this winter, I came across one insect which I think 
should be recorded, viz., Phoxopteryx 77 iyrtilla 7 ia. I found a single 
fine specimen at rest on a flower, on the evening of June 22nd last, 
at Temple Mills, about half a mile from this house. So little did I 
expect this species in this neighbourhood, that I did not recognise it 
until I was about to label and mount it for the cabinet. In order 
to be quite sure that there was no mistake, I showed it to Mr. 
Machin, who at once pronounced it to be 77 iyrtillana. As the G.E.R. 
runs trains to and from Doncaster it is possible that it may have 
been conveyed from Yorkshire by this means. I have never seen the 
foodplant in Essex, and, upon turning to Gibson’s Flora of Essex, 
I find he only gives two localities for it — Danbury and Lower Forest, 
Epping. However it may have got here, I regard it as a very 
interesting capture. — A. Thurnall, 144, Chobham Road, Stratford 
New Town, E. March I'^th, i8yi. [Myrtillana is hardly a species 
one would expect to take a railway journey, and then be found in 
such fine condition near London. — Ed.] 
Hybernation of Xylina semibrunnea. — In reply to Mr. Mason’s 
remarks, re X. se 77 iibru 7 mea {ante, vol. i., p. 327), I may state that 
this insect certainly does hybernate, although it seem to be seldom 
met with in the spring. On looking over my notes for the year 1875, 
I find that I took a single $ in very fair condition on sallow bloom 
on March 31st of the above year. This was at Whittlesford, near 
Cambridge, where I was then residing. On mentioning the circum- 
stance to Mr. F. Bond, he said (in a letter now before me, dated 
April 2nd, 1875) ; — “I have taken sc 77 iibrun 7 iea at sallow bloom, once 
or twice, one was a fine specimen and one or two others were worn.” 
This insect used to be quite common at times on ivy bloom in the 
above-named village. As an instance, on further referring to my 
notes for the same year, I see that in October and November I took 
no less than forty-four of which forty were on the ivy bloom, and four 
only at sugar. Every one of these was as good as bred, and all taken 
, in my father’s garden. Xanthia gilvago was equally common at sugar 
a short time before. I have never found or seen the larva of se 77 ii- 
brunnea, but the late Mr. E. Newman gives a full description of it 
