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CuRCULiONiD,ffi : Hilipus circuli/erus, Champ. ; Compstts sp.? * 



LoNQicoRNiA : Lagochirus araneiformis, L., Cayo ; Pleuromenus haccifer. 

 Bates* ; Distenia pilatei, Chevr.,* Cayo ; Trachyderes elegans, Dup.* 



These insects have been presented to the British Miiseiim by Mr. Gibbs. — 



G. C. Champion. 



Cordylomera suturalis, Chevr. (introduced) in Yorkshire. — Apropos of 

 Mr. Champion's note on this Longicorn beetle (Ent. Mo. Mag., March, 1913), I 

 have recently seen two specimens of it in Middlesbrough Museum. They are 

 both stated to have been imported in " mahogany " from West Africa, and one is 

 shown in sit-A in a boring in the wood. This latter was found in a wood yard 

 at Middlesbrough, and the other was taken in 1906 in a timber yard at 

 North Ormesby.— Wm. J. Pordham, The Villa, Bubwith, Selby, Yorks. : 

 October IQth, 1913. 



Cryptorrhynchus lapathi, L., in Aberdeenshire.— ^o far as I am aware 

 C. lapathi has never been recorded from the Aberdeen district. In March last I 

 came across the frass of this beetle on some willows (8. purpurea) growing on 

 the banks of the Eiver Dee a few miles from Aberdeen. In April I obtained 

 the weevil still head down in its pupating chamber. It was of a rosy pink 

 colour. In August I secured a number of its larvse, and in September I obtained 

 both pupffi and imagines. Scheidter, writing in the " Naturwissenschaftliche 

 Zeitschrift fur Forst u. Landwii-tschaft " for April, 1913, states that his 

 researches show two types of generation, a one year and a two year generation. 

 He also states that in higher altitiides and colder districts the weevil, pupated 

 in August, remains throughout the winter in its p\xpal chamber. 



My own observations agree with his. In this district the generation is a 

 on > year generation. Thus in March I have found the weevil still in its pupal 

 chamber and again throughout Aixgust and September, and also now in October 

 I have found it in its larval gallery. 



That these examples collected in September and October are truly adult and 

 only awaiting the advent of spring before issuing from their pupal chambers is 

 shown by the fact that, if removed from them by splitting open their galleries, 

 they will commence feeding on shoots of willow or other trees if supplied with 

 them. I have examined a few of such weevils, and in the females the ovaries 

 are stUl undeveloped —James W. Munro, 391, Great Western Road, Aberdeen, 

 N.B. : October 10th, 1913. 



Magdalis carbonaria, L., in Morayshire. — In a recent number of the 

 " Ent. Mo. Mag.," Prof. T. Hudson Beare mentions M. carbonaria from Grantown. 



In March of this year I had sent me for identification a number of the 

 leading shoots of Scots Pine, which were being gnawed and tunnelled by a 

 legless soft-bodied Coleopterous larva. This I considered might be M. carbo7iaria. 

 In May the larvse sent me pupated and so far confirmed my view, but they never 



