1904.] ;^Q3 



retusus, Marsli., two species of Sitones, Anihonomus pedlcularitis, L., Orchestes 

 fagi, L., Oymnetron heccabungpe, L., Ceuthorrkynchidius frontalis, Bris., Uypera 

 (rilineata, Marsh., variabilis, Ubst., plantaginis, De G-., Mecinus pyra-tter, Hbst., 

 and several of the common Apions occurred. Of Staphylinidse tliere were Boli- 

 tochara lucida, Grav., Sfilicus affinis, Er., Stinius angustatus, Pajk., Psederus 

 li/toralis, Grav., Stenus ater, Maiiii., and other uoaunon Steni, Homalium vile, Er., 

 Oxypoda (? umhrata), Hypocyptus longicornis, Pk., Conosoma llvidum, Er., and 

 several Tachypori. Among the Clavicorns there were four or five species of the 

 commoner Fhalacridx. 



In the spring of 1903, besides Anthribus, Tetratoma ancora, F., Hedobia itn- 

 perialis, L., and several other species again turned up in another hedge, and in the 

 autumn of 1903 the remnants of the old hedge produced Scaphidium 4:-inaculafum, 

 01., in very rotten wood, Bolitochara bella, Mark., Ceuthorrhynchus euphorhice, Bris., 

 and Rhlnonctis denticollis, Gyll {Phytobius quadrinodosus) , also a Helopkorus, the 

 common Stenus declaratus, Er., besides Micropeplus staphylinoides. Marsh., and 

 most of the things taken in 1903, but not Anisoxya. 



From other hedges in the neighbourhood Agathidium various. Beck., Scaphi- 

 dema fsneum, Pk., and at one place in some numbers, Leptusa ruficolUs, Er. 



My list of Hemiptera from the hedge includes Corimelcena scarabcEoides, L., 

 Corizus capitalus. Fab., Berytus crassipes, H.-S., Aphanus pini, L., Peritrechus 

 luniger, Schill., Dictyonota strichnocera, Fieb., 3Ionanthia cardui, L., dumetorum, 

 H.-S., Nabis lativentris, Fab., and limbatus, Dahlb. ; hard by, but not, I think, 

 actually from the hedge, /erM.s, L., brevlpennis, Hahn, and major, Cost. 



Last autumn I have also from the last remnants of the hedge several species of 

 Proctotrupida:, no doubt largely parasitic on the Coleoptera living there. Peri- 

 semus triareolatus, of course, abundant, but though I have attempted to assign 

 names to the other species, I should not at present care to publish them. 



In the above I have recorded many common things, but my object is to bring 

 together the inhabitants of one small spot, hoping thereby to add something to the 

 life history of the insects recorded. 



With reference to the suggestion that Anthribus hibernates, I ought to 

 say that the spring specimen was quite fresh, and some of the autumn specimens 

 were distinctly worn. Those I tried to keep in confinement died in January, but 

 were not kept damp enough. With reference to the length of life of insects very 

 little is, I think, known. I have a pair of Dytiscus circumjlexus still alive which 

 were captured by nie in October, 1902. There is no reason why the perfect Anthri- 

 bus should not live for an equal length of time, and it may emerge in the spring. 



Huntingfield, Faversham, Kent : 

 February Ibth, 1904. 



A NOTE ON LASIOSOMA IlLRTA 

 BY T. A. CHAPMAN, M.D., V.-P. Ent. Soc. 



Having brought into the house in November some pieces of 

 Dardalia quercina, I found recently that they had contained larvae of 



