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search some plants of ScropJndaria nodom for Clonus hortnlanus. 1 

 did not see the beetle, but noticed some curious looking larvaj on the 

 flowers, as well as some pupa cases attached to the stems. I secured 

 these, and in the course of about a fortnight several Cionus Iwrtidanvs 

 emerged. In my own fields I found the curious thorny-looking larva 

 of Cassida viridis on thistles, and on a Paimex found a number of pupa 

 cases, from which emerged numerous Hypera rumicis. The pupa-cases 

 were clustered together on the stem of the plant, and were of a trans- 

 parent reddish network, the beetle being quite visible inside. The pupa- 

 cases are coloured very similarly to the stems and masses of seeds of 

 the Riunev, and no doubt this acts as a protection, for at a little 

 distance one could not distinguish the pupaj from the plant itself. The 

 larvfe of beetles are not, as a rule, easy to rear, but my experience with 

 those I have mentioned shows me that there are some which could be 

 reared in captivity, and the observations of their habits would very 

 likely lead to further discoveries, and might elucidate the habits of 

 some of our rarer Coleoptera. The experience of the Rev. T. Wood 

 with Cis hilaiiiindlatHfiia a case in point. — W. F. Johnson, M.A., F.E.S., 

 Poyntzpass, co. Armagh. November 11th, 1898. 



Lamia textor at Fairlight. — On September 4th, while hunt- 

 ing for Livus alf/irus, at Fairlight, I had the pleasure of finding, 

 amongst the herbage beneath some sallows, a specimen of Lamia 

 tc.vtor, L. It is, I think, of considerable interest that this rare Longi- 

 corue should have turned up again, not far from the glen where 

 occurred the specimen recorded by Mr. Butler, and mentioned by Canon 

 Fowler, in his Coleoptera of the British Islands. — HuGH G. Jeffery, 

 Hastings. October 12th, 1898. [This record is very interesting, it 

 makes, I understand, the third specimen taken in this locality in the 

 last 10 years. In my notes on the British Longicornes I expressed an 

 opinion that the Hastings record was an importation. It is now clear 

 that I was mistaken. Mr. Jeffery has also sent me what I take to be 

 the larva. — Horace Donisthorpe.] 



Notes on Coleoptera : Winter work in moss. — During the 

 winter of 1897-8, the very scanty time other duties have allowed 

 me to give to collecting has been exclusively devoted to work- 

 ing moss, mostly in my own neighbourhood, that is, entirely in Surrey. 

 Perhaps a few notes on the results may not be uninteresting. In 

 Richmond Park, in November, I obtained the following during two 

 Saturday afternoons' work : — Fhilonthus viicans, Grav., .Si/Z/c?<.s orbicu- 

 latHs, Er., this in plenty, Apion nd)ens, Steph., Tadujpus flavipes, L., 

 also in plenty, and Ci/tilus varins, F., besides many commoner things. 

 On Wimbledon Common, mostly out of sphagnum, at the end of 

 January and during February, the following turned up : — Cruptobium 

 (jlaherrimum, Herbst, fairly common, Bembidium maimerheimi, Sahl., 

 Scijdmaemis collaris, MiilL, Medon brunneus, Er., Syntoxiiiun acneum^ 

 Miill., Tadiyporus palUdus^ Sharp, in plenty out of dry grass tufts, and T. 

 transversalis, Grav., in very scanty numbers in both tufts and sphag- 

 num, early in March (I turned this pretty insect up again out of 

 moss on the side of the Black Pond, at Esher), Bryaxis juncorum, 

 Leach, in profusion, Quedius fuliginosm, Grav., in my experience, 

 unlike tristis, Grav., a very scarce insect, Philonthus niyrita, Nord., a 

 nice series by steady work at one spot, many Steni, of which the best was 

 certainly Stenus liistrator, Er., very scarce, however. I omit all the 



