1907.] 65 



gate tliem in their respective haunts. This I have done during last summer with 

 some amount of success. 



(Edemera virescens was originally taken by Mr. James Edwards and myself in 

 a damp wood a few miles from Norwich on June 2nd, 188 !•, bub at the time was 

 passed over as CE. lurida. Marsh., a species wiiieli appears to be almost absent from 

 tliis part of Norfolk. It was not until 19U3 (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxix, p. 64) that 

 Mr. Edwards was able to record it aa a species new to Britain. Since that year 

 I have paid several visits to the wood from which the beetles were originally 

 obtained about the date they were originally taken, but a most careful search failed 

 to reveal the insect. It was therefore with particular pleasure that on June 5th 

 last I again met with it in the old locality. It appeared to be extremely local, and 

 was found in one corner of the wood only. Even here it was not plentiful, and 

 several hours' search produced twelve specimens only, nine ^ s and three ? s. It 

 occurred exclusively in the flowers of Stellaria holostea, in the bright sunshine. 

 I did not find it in any other flowers, nor could I obtain any specimens by general 

 sweeping. 



Malachlus barnevi/lei was originally taken by myself on June 2 1st, 1899, on 

 the sandhills in the neighbourhood of Hunstanton. I did not again go to the 

 district until June 26th last, when I paid a special visit to look for this insect. 

 The weather was most favourable, and I met with the species on the exact spot 

 I had taken it seven years before. This beetle was also extremely local, and all my 

 captures were made on a strip of sandhill not twenty yards long. In this one spot 

 it was not uncommon, and I took a good series, and could without difficulty have 

 obtained more ; but the coloTiy was so restricted in its range that I feared to collect 

 them too closely. Most of the specimens occurred in the flowers of Convolvulus 

 arvensis, but a few were swept from the grass and rough herbage. When in the 

 flowers they were generally found clasping the stamens, &c., showing the striped 

 under-side of their bodies, under which circumstances they were not so easily seen 

 as one would expect in the case of comparatively large and brilliant insects. Unlike 

 most of the species of the genus the sexes are very difiicult to distinguish, and it 

 was not until I examined them at home that I found to my disappointment that 

 almost the whole of the specimens were females. Perhaps I was a little late for the 

 males, but when I took them in 1899 the females also predominated. 



I can scai'cely think but that these two species occur in other places, and I have 

 little doubt that if suitable localities were investigated at the times and under the 

 circumstances I have indicated that further captures of these most interesting 

 species would be made. — H. J. Thouless, Corfe, College Eoad, Norwich : 

 January \lth, 1907. 



Occurrence of Xanthia ocellaris, Bkh., at Norivich. — The capture by Mr. R. S. 

 Smith of X. ocellaris in Norfolk (recorded by Mr. E. A. Atmore on p. 13 of this 

 month's Ent. Mo. Mag.) reminded me of a Xanthia which I took in a garden at 

 Norwich in September, 1903, and which at the time 1 was unable to determine, and 

 put on one side for further investigation. This has now been done with the help of 

 the Rev. A. Miles Moss, and I am pleased to be able to record that it is without 

 doubt Xanthia ocellaris. — E. A. Atmore, King's Lynn, Norfolk : January, 1907. 



F 



