" satisfaction." The precise locality appears to be just before reaching Bramakiind. 

 If I had myself observed tliis quotation when I had the pleasui'e of meeting Mr. 

 Cooper at Bristol, soon after its publication, I should of course have tried to obtain 

 further particulars. — E. C. Eye, 70, Charlwood Eoad, Putney, S.W. : January, \S1S. 



PcBcilus cupreus, var. affinis, Sturm. — I observe that Baron Chaudoir, in liis 

 excellent little monograph of this group in L'Abeille, 1876, after defining the above 

 named variety as not differing from the type in size or build, and as having only the 

 two basal joints of the antennse red, and the femora red also, remarks that it appears 

 not to occur in England. It is, however, not very uncommon here. In my own 

 collection, I have five examples of it, all from the London district, and I have seen 

 many others. Stephens' variety rttjifemoratus is obviously also identical with it, and 

 is indeed properly so referred by Chaudoir himself, /. c. p. 18 : it is recorded both in 

 the "Illustrations " and "Manual," and is mentioned in Wilson & Duncan's "Ento- 

 raologia Edinonsis " and Murray's Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Scotland, bo that 

 it is difficult to see the gi'ound for Chaudoir's remark. I may observe that 

 Chaudoir says this variety is usually blue or black, but that he has four specimens of 

 the more or less greenish-bronze of the type : my specimens are, two bronze-green, 

 two bright blue-green, one nearly black. — Id. 



StapJiylimis fulvipes in the New Forest. — On two occasions last year, whilst 

 staying at Lyndhurst for a few days, I had the good fortune to meet with a specimen 

 of this rare and very pretty insect. Both captures were decidedly " flukes," as I 

 shook the first out of moss in Beechen Lane on March 29th, whilst the second was 

 taken running on the ground in a grassy ride at night, attracted thither by the light 

 of a sugaring-lantern, at the end of July. This second capture was effected in the 

 same wood where, in 1876, I took Quedius dilatatvs at sugar. Staphylinus fulvipes 

 has not, I think, been recorded from this district before : hitherto, Folkestone, Holme 

 Fen, and the Glasgow district seem to have been the localities most favoured by it. — 

 W. A. Forbes, Cambridge : February \lth, 1878. 



Apaiura Iris in the New Forest. — Perhaps it may interest some of your cor- 

 respondents to know that I captured a female A. Iris, August 5th, 1877, in Stubby 

 Enclosure, near Duny, in the New Forest. This is the insect I believe which Mr. 

 Porritt mentions as having " seen alive in a collector's box," as I recollect showing 

 it to a lady and two gentlemen near Ilurst Ilill, when C. sponsa was being cauglit in 

 such abundance. Although A. Iris is constantly to be found in several other places 

 in England, this is the first recorded capture of it in the New Forest for many years; 

 60 I am informed by Mr. Jerrard, the well known collector at Lyndhurst. It came 

 and perched on a very small oak tree, and at first I took it for a Sibylla, which insect 

 I was then taking, and it was only when in the net I discovered what I had got. 

 Although I obtained several ova none of them proved fertile. The swarm of C. 

 sponsa at Hurst Hill was something to be remembered. I had never seen anything 

 like it. Although I had no killing-bottle or lantern, between the hours of 4 and 7 

 p.m., I captured nearly thirty, most of them in broad daylight, sweeping three at a 

 time off the tree with the net. Of course at that early hour they were very skittish 

 and not easily approached ; however, I obtained a very good series. — U. Neale, 

 Salisbury : Janv.ary I'J///, 1878. 



