106 THE entomologist's IlECOKD. 



they were mistaken, at the time, for one of the common species of 

 PJuu'don, and consequently only a few specimens were taken. I spent 

 Whitsuntide (June 5th-7th), with other memhers of the North London 

 Nat. Hist. Soc, in the New Forest, when the following beetles were 

 taken : — Calosuma impdsitor, a few specimens out of various trees and 

 bushes ; Xotiophilus ru/ipcs (1) and Ptcrosticlnis obluni/n-punctatus (1), 

 under dead wood ; 'Tro.v .sabidosiis, two specimens under an old rag, at 

 a spot which had evidently been the site of a gipsy encampment ; 

 Ascuiuiii striatum (1), caught by Mr. C. Nicholson, flying in the evening 

 in the garden of " Lynwood," and kindly given by him to me. The 

 interest attaching to the introduction of this northern Longicorn into 

 the south of England, has already been commented upon by Mr. G. C. 

 Champion and Mr. Donisthorpe. Aiiopludcra sc.vijuttata (1) on a paling; 

 Cnjiitoccphalus hipunctatus var. lincola (1), on ling on White Moor, 

 Lyndhurst ; in the same locality, a Geujitrupes, which appears to be 

 referable to G. ])ijrenaeuf!, was picked up crawling on a path ; Krir- 

 rhimis bhiiactdatus (1), Matley Bog, where I also had the good fortune 

 to meet with a fine example of the beautiful exotic-looking Syrphid 

 Dipteron, Spiluwyia speciosa, Rossi, which is apparently confined, in 

 Britain, to the New Forest. In a sand-pit at Gomshall, Surrey, on 

 Sept. 7th, I found a specimen of Staphylinus stereo rarius, and another 

 occurred to me a few days later, running over sand on the north-east 

 Essex coast, in which latter locality also Ihjpcra inurina (2) and Uehiiis 

 palliihis (1) were obtained. I was much disappointed in the Box Hill 

 district as a coleopterous locality, although, as recorded elsewhere, it 

 yielded me some very fair Hemiptera. — F. B. Jennings, 152, Silver 

 Street, Upper Edmonton, N. March Ylth, 1898. 



j^CIENTIFIC NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Assembling of Lasiocampa QUERctrs. — On April 6th, 1896, I came 

 across eight small larvre of L. qucrcus, feeding on a clump of low 

 growing ivy. I have somewhere seen ivy mentioned as a food-plant 

 for this species, but think it cannot be a generally known one. These 

 larv^ were reared on hawthorn, and all spun up, the first on May 30th. 

 On July 7th, a female emerged, and being very dubious as to the 

 actual amount of truth in the matter of assembling, more especially 

 as on one occasion, at Oxshott, I had experimented with Satiimia 

 pavonia without success, determined to give L. quercus a trial, and, for 

 this purpose, proceeded out early on the 8th, armed with a muslin 

 cage, and having the female in a larva collecting tin in my bag. 

 Arriving at what appeared to be a suitable spot, the cage with the 

 female inside was hung on the branch of a tree, about four feet from 

 the ground, and developments aAvaited with anxiety. Half-an-hour 

 passed, no signs of any males, an hour likeAvise, then shortly after- 

 wards two males flew around, and after a cursory inspection dashed 

 oft", not to again return, frightened possibly by the white muslin cage. 

 After some considerable further time had passed, the erroneous con- 

 clusion was arrived at that there was evidently notmuch in "assembling" 

 after all, and the female having been replaced in the tin, I started to 

 return, somewhat disappointed. During my walk back, about 3 p.m., 

 a male suddenly appeared, and buzzed round my black leather bag so 

 persistently, that, quietly opening it, I was enabled to put a cyanide 

 bottle over him without the intervention of a net. Encouraged by 



