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more robust insect than P. contracta. Mr. Smitli adds that the only insect that 

 agrees with mine in these respects is a female P. ochracea, of which the worker is at 

 present unknown, so that till the males and females of my colony appear it will be 

 impossible to determine the species. When I have obtained specimens of them I 

 will send a further account. — R. S. CnAUSLEY, St. Giles's Road West, Oxford : June 

 26th, 1877. 



Loptis sulcatus at Hayling Island. — I found this species commonly by sweeping 

 IScMum, &c., by the sea-shore last week. It was previously only known as British 

 from specimens caught by Mr. Moncreaff, — without certain locality, — possibly from 

 the same place. — Edward Saxjndees, Wandle Road, Upper Tooting : July 12th, 

 1877. 



Lepyrus corroiorated as British. — I wish to record the capture of Lepyrus 

 hinotatus sunning itself on Whit-Monday in a sand-pit at Norbiton. I have only 

 recently discovered that it was not Barynotus. — Gr. Lewis, Queen's-road, Putney : 

 July nth, 1877. 



A Parnus new to Britain. — Last year Dr. Power gave me some specimens of a 

 Parnus, one of which I sent to Herr Kiesenwetter and received an answer at once — 

 " The Parmis is certainly P. striatellus, Fairmaire, a rare species ; we obtain our 

 " examples from Paris." — Id. 



Capture of Teretrius plcipes. — Within the last fortnight, I have taken about a 

 dozen specimens of this rare little Sister, on the fence on which I took last year, 

 and again this year, Tillus unifasciatus. Teretrius is, like Tillus, only to be found 

 on hot sunny mornings. I generally spend two or three hours every morning, when 

 favourable, watching. Tillus is very active, and flies on and off with great rapidity ; 

 in private grounds not far off, ai-e some fine old pollard oaks, and which I strongly 

 suspect are the birth-places of both these insects. Of Xylotrogus brunneus I have, 

 as yet, only taken one specimen.— Samuel Steveks, " Loanda," Beulah Ilill, Upper 

 Norwood :' July I9th, 1877. 



Sialis ftiliginosa in Worcestershire. — Six specimens in all of this insect have 

 occurred to me : three old specimens without date ; one caught flying about a 

 blooming hawthorn, on the 20th May, 1871, near the Teme ; and two caught on the 

 18th June last. This species is readily distinguished in the field from S. lutaria by 

 its greater size and blackness. — J. E. Fletcher, Pitmaston-road, Worcester : July 

 6th, 1877. 



Occurrence of a probably new species of Setodes in England. — On the 25th Sep- 

 tember, 1876, Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson, of Preston, kindly sent me a caddis-fly he had 

 caught at Windermere ; it was a Setodes, of a species unknown to me. The publica- 

 tion of part vi of Mr. McLachlan's " Revision and Synopsis," which includes the 

 genus Setodes, enabled me to identify my insect as allied to Setodes pxinctata, F. 

 Unfortunately, it had lost both antennse, and was otherwise injured before reaching 

 me. — Id. : June 2oth, 1877. 



[I have examined this insect (which is a $ ), and think it will prove to be an 

 undescribed species. — R. McL.]. 



Setodes interrupta, F., in Worcestershire.- — It may be of interest to state that 

 tliis species has occurred on the Severn. I have an old specimen that I caught many 

 years ago from osiers overhanging the river. At the same time and place I saw one 

 or two more. — Id. • 



