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Medon diJutus, Er., in the New Fore.it.— On July 15th I had the good fortune 

 to meet with a single example of this apparently very rare Staphylinid, running on 

 the bark at the foot of a Co*s«.s-infested oak in Frame Wood, near Brockenhuret. 

 Ml". G. C. Champion kindly identified the beetle for me. — -James J. Walker, 

 Oxford : August 6th, 1907. 



Coleoptera at Eoyston Heath, S;c. — On July 1-lth, the first really warm 

 summer's day this year, I noticed HomaJopIia ruricola, F., in the greatest abun- 

 dance on Royston Heath, Herts. The black variety was also fairly plentiful. In 

 the New Forest on May 25th, I took .inthaxia nitidula, L., on the Whitethorn near 

 Lyndhurst, also two specimens of Ischnomera sanguinicoUis, F. On June 17th 

 I captured a specimen of Apion semivittatum, Gyll., at Deal, on the sandhills. 

 I did not recognise the species at the time, or might possibly have taken more. 

 I should be interested to know whether it has occurred since Mr. Walton took it at 

 Margate.— G. E. Bryant, Fir Grove, Esher : Juli/ 20th, 1907. 



Ochthehiu.9 inargipaUen.t, Latr., and O. viridis, Peyr. — In my note on the above 

 in last month's Ent. Mo. Mag., I expressed a doubt as to whether both these species 

 occurred in Britain. I am now able to state that Dr. Power took O. margipaUens 

 in numbers at Hanwell, Middlesex, that there are several specimens in the late G. 

 R. Waterhouse's collection, and that probably the species is as widely distributed 

 as viridis, Peyr. I have now critically examined the specimens from Gravesend 

 standing as margipallens in the Power collection, and find them to he piridin, Peyr. 

 It is still doubtful v/hethev II i/dr.en a a ng us fata, Sturm, is British ; all the specimens 

 hitherto sent to me as angustata, coming from such widely distant counties as 

 Cumberland, Devon, Hants, and Sussex ai-e undoubtedly longior, Rey. — E. A. 

 Newbery, 12, Churchill Road, N.W. : Augu.st 16th, 1907. 



Sesia vespiformis at Woking. — On July 28th of this year I took a specimen of 

 this rare species, which had settled on a carpet in the back yard of this house. It 

 was first noticed by our cook, who called me to look at it. Not realizing at first 

 that it was a moth, I had no idea of its rarity, and I rather damaged the front 

 wings in boxing it, rubbing off some of the black scales from them. There are 

 numerous black poplar trees in the neighbourhood, one of which almost overliangs 

 the yard.— C. F. Saunders, St. Ann's, Woking: August 20th, 1907. 



Enarmonia ratzeburgiana, Rtzh., bred from Picea morinda. — On June 29th, 

 1905, I noticed, in Lord Eustace Cecil's grounds at Lytchett Heath House, East 

 Dorset, traces of a larva that had been feeding, not uncommonly, on the shoots of a 

 single ornamental fir tree in precisely the same manner as does that of Enarmonia 

 ratzeburgiana on spruce fir, but it was then clearly too late for any larvae. On 

 May 27th last I closely searched this individual tree, within a few yards of which 

 stood a spruce fir, and found feeding on it two larvae, one of which duly pupated, 

 and yielded a specimen of E. ratzeburgiana, Rtzb., on June 29th. Growing in the 

 same grounds were three other examples of this same fir, recently identified for me 

 at Kew as Picea morinda, a native of the Himalayan Mountains, but these were 



