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in 1903 in the same hedge; the perfect insects, I tliink, injure one another if kept 

 in the same box : at any rate, I found several with parts of legs or antennae missing. 

 Anthribu.9, on the other hand, lives near the top of the hedge, generally in the up- 

 rights, but sometimes in the upper entwined boughs ; the hole is very conspicuous, 

 and it is worth while searcliing for a place wliere the holes are particularly abund- 

 ant, and then bending the hedge over and beating. The insect occurs in small 

 numbers all over a considerable area, unlike Tropideres, which I have only found at 

 the one spot ; still, I have taken more Tropideres than Anthribus. The latter 

 hibernates, and I have taken one female in April ; I think it takes two years 

 at least to feed up, as the perfect insect is about in August, and some years ago 

 I think Mr. Donisthorpe took it in May or June. Another wood-feeder which 

 lives in the hazel is Lissodema 4-pustu7atum, Marsh., but this is very rare, 

 while Acalles turbatus, Boh., lives apparently in the same way. This latter insect 

 is \eTj abundant in a suitable old hedge ; it mimics the buds of the twigs, and 

 when it falls in the tray lies with the tibise folded back on the femora, but with 

 the six folded legs left standing straight out all together in a bunch, exactly like the 

 nearly allied Cryptorrhynchus lapathi, L. Altogether the 30 ft. of hedge produced in 

 1902, some 78 beetles and 18 Hemiptera, besides Hymenoptera (ants and Procto- 

 trupidx), Neuroptera {Psocidse), and Aptera No doubt there were also ichneumons 

 and Braconids, but my method of collecting was unsuitable for them. Carabidx 

 were represented by five chance species, Demetrias atricaplllus, L., being the com- 

 monest, also by five others, which are, I think, subcortical feeders, viz., Dromius 

 meridionalis , Dj., linearis, 01., melanocephalus, Dj., 4-)wtatus, Panz., in great 

 numbers, and A^-maculatus, L. ; mimicking these, or, at any rate, coloured so that 

 they can be arranged in a corresponding series, are the heteromerous Rhinosimus 

 viridipennis, Steph. , planirostris, ¥., Lissodema 4-pustnIaf urn, Marsh., besides Cerylon 

 histeroides, F., and Litargus bifasciatus, F. 



Other fmngus feeders were : — Ennearthron cormdum,G:y\]., Cis hispidtts, Payk., 

 Anisoxya fuscula, III., Clinocara tetraloma, Thorns., and Tetratoma ancora, F. 



Wood feeders resembling lichen-covered wood were Anthribu$ and Tropideres, 

 mentioned before, and two Fogonochseri, viz., hispidus, L. {bimaculatus, F.), and 

 dentatus, Fourc. ; the white spot at the end of the elytra of the two first mentioned 

 perhaps rather more resembles the broken section of a little twig than lichen, but 

 Mr. Donisthorpe has shown at the Entomological Society Anthribus arranged in its 

 natural surroundings, and making it evident how well protected it is. The pro- 

 tective resemblance is even carried out in the long antennse of the male. The 

 insect is very variable in size, the largest specimen being quite twice the length of 

 the smallest. 



To continue the list of species there were conspicuous (but distasteful ?) species, 

 e. g., among the Coccinellidse : PlatynaDpis ititeorubra, Goeze, living in wood, a 

 Scymnus (probably testaceus, var. scufellaris, Muls., but it has black tarsal claws 

 like lividus, of Bold), Rhizobius b'tura, F., CoccineUa ^-punctata, L., W-punctata, 

 L., and its var. confuens, and bipunctata, L. 



Among the Phytophaga, Lema melanopa, L., Haltica pxtsilla, Duft., ApJithona 

 herbigrada, Curt., Mantura matthewsi, Curt., a rather dull form, Phyllotreta nodi' 

 comis, Marsh., and vittula, Redt., Plectroscelis concinna, Marsh., Longitarsus pulex, 

 Schr., and atricilla, L. Of Rhynchophora, Xylocleptes bispinus, Duf., Strophosomm 



