150 THE entomologist's recokd. 



The Sternoxi, in spite of records of Lud ins ferrui/ incus, Mt'(japcnt/u's 

 tibialis, etc., in old days, I have found very scarce, and have nothing 

 Avorth chronichng. Of the Ti'lejihoridac I have taken many in the park, 

 the best being one Rhatjonijcha nniculor (one of the very few things 

 worth having my sweeping net has produced). 



Of the Serricorns I have found a few only, but these mostly good, 

 one decidedly no, I'tinus G-jiimctatus, Lyctiis canal iciilatus, and, best of all, 

 in fact the capture I value most, Anobium denticolle. I believe I 

 Avas the first to turn this insect up again after the lapse of 

 many years since the last record. I took two in mid- winter some 

 four years ago, out of decaying hawthorn, shortly afterwards finding 

 another, and last spring, Mr. Donisthorpe and I worked this locality 

 with much care, and each secured, with some labour, a nice series ; at 

 the same time I dug out two Clijtus vnjsticm, not before, I believe, 

 recorded from the park. All these A . denticolle came from old hawthorns, 

 and from one very restricted part of the park, so it is very local and 

 scarce there. It is a fine and very distinct insect. 



The only Longicorns I have found in the park, in addition to that 

 mentioned above, are Prionus coriarius (one fine specimen sitting on 

 an oak trunk), Clijtiis arietis, Callidium aim, Grannnoptera ruficornis, 

 and tabacicolor and Leiopus nebidosiis, all these latter really occurring in the 

 adjoining piece of Wimbledon Common, and not in the park proper. 

 This scanty record, and the absence of Sterno.ti, show how scarce 

 wood-feeders have become through the persistent cutting down and 

 destroying of the old timber. 



Of the Phytopliaga, again my record, on account of the compara- 

 tively complete absence of all flowers, is very scanty. Last December, 

 I found Donacia bidens hybernating in dead leaves, twenty or thirty 

 feet away from the water's edge, and I), thalassina occurs freely on 

 Care.r, in June, in Penn Pond, with I>. si)nplc.v, but no other species of 

 this genus seems to occur in the park. Besides several of the com- 

 moner, Halticidac and Chrysomela polita, often hybernating under 

 bark, there is nothing else to mention. 



Heteromera. — Tetratoma fwKjorum was fairly common in fungi in 

 the autumn of 1896 ; once before it occurred in a fungus in my own 

 garden ; I'hloeotnja rnjipes in decaying willow, and Ehinosimus plani- 

 rustris in plenty under birch bark, are the only other ones worth 

 recording ; of course, nearly all the species of Anaspis occur in pro- 

 fusion on the hawthorn blossom, but I have never found A. (jarneysi in 

 the park. lUtyncuphora are equally scanty, and need but a few lines, as 

 I have never found any but the commonest and most universally- 

 distributed species. 



From this brief and rather dry record, it will be seen that the 

 park, except in one or two groups, is no longer the paradise for 

 collectors it once was. 



^^ARIATION. 



Description of Dianthcecia (Luperina) luteago var. lowei. — 

 The Rev. F. E. Lowe kindly sent me a pair of specimens of a new 

 form of this exceedingly variable species, which were bred on June 15th 

 and 16th, 1897, from pupae found at the roots of Silcne maritima, in 

 Guernsey. These I have exhibited at the various London entomo- 



