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spaitiata is common about broom in September. Tanagra chcerophyllata is rather 
soaice, but occurs very plentifully on the grassy hills about fifteen miles to westward. 
Of Aoituas, I took in September two fine specimens of Calamia lutosa at sugar. 
Celanta Haivorthi is rather common on the high moorland ground, and obtained 
bi st by sugaring the scattered trees of Scotch fir growing there. Noctua glareosa is 
sufficiently common for one to obtain a good series without difficulty. Ortkosia lota 
and mac ilenta are not scarce, and I took a number of each in fine condition ; also two 
specimens of Hecatera serena. Poli chi is very common, and the variety olivacea 
frequently occurs, some of a pale green, varying to a dark smoky shade, the abdomen 
bt ing almost black. I took about a dozen specimens of Aplecta occulta at sugar, a 
few of them on the Scotch firs in the moorland locality, where Celcena Haivorthi 
occuis. At the same place, lladena adusta swarms at sugar in June; and in a 
leaf wood bank near to this, and also on hedgerow trees, thalassina and contigua are 
pretty common. Of the Calocampce, I took ten fine specimens of exoleta and 
three of vetusta : one of the former on the high moorland ground. Habrostola 
urticcB was common at raspberry bushes in June, I think, of 1879, but much scarcer 
last season. P/usia pulchrina and iota are both moderately common, the former 
mostly at honeysuckle, and iota at bloom of rhododendron. Of the species which 
seem scarce, and of which I have taken of each only a single specimen, I may 
mention the following: Acronycta ligustri, Noctua conflua, Ortkosia suspecta, 
Tethea subtusa, and Ppunda viminalis.—A. Elliot, Samieston, Jedburgh, N.B. : 
February, 1881. 
Parly appearance of Pier is rapes . — This afternoon, at Merton, Surrey, I was 
surprised to see one of the small white butterflies, P. rapes, living about in the bright 
sunshine, apparently enjoying it. I have never before met with this species so early 
in the season, and it struck me as so unusual that I stayed for some minutes watching 
it. —John W. Downing, 59, Lupus Street, SAY. : March 15 th, 1881. 
Ichneumon idee new to Britain.— A few Ichneumons taken here by me were 
forwarded to Mr. Fitch, by Mr. E. A. Butler, who has kindly examined them and 
informs me that there are among them two species new to Britain : Agrothereutes 
batavus, Toll., Tijds. v. Ent, xvi, p. 209, pi. ix, fig. 1 , ? , among the Cryptides, and 
Lissonota leucozona, Grav., Iclm. Eur., iii, p. 100, ? ,one of the Pimplides. These 
were taken in the same sand-pit in which I found Bothynotus pilosus and about the 
same time, in September. I also found Aptesis stenoptera, Marshall, Ent. Mo. Mag., 
v, p. 156. — E. N. Bloomfield, Guestling Bectory : March Uh, 1881. 
Dr. Adlers second memoir on dimorphism in the Cynipidcs which produce OaJc- 
Galls— In Yol. xiv, p. 44, of this Magazine, attention was briefly directed to a 
remarkable assertion by Dr. Adler, of Schleswig, to the effect that certain of our 
oak-galls, and their producers, are only dimorphic conditions, the galls in one brood 
being totally different in form from those of the other, and the flies so different as 
to have been placed in distinct genera: Dr. Adler’s statement and the proofs, were 
fully detailed in the “ Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift,” 1877, pp. 209—248 
At that time his statements were received with a considerable amount of incredulity: 
but subsequently some, at least, of his observations were proved to have been correct 
by Messrs. J. E. Fletcher, Lichtenstein, and Cameron (cf. Ent, Mo. Mag., xiv, p 
