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some considerable time, when I found a few of the leaves had evidently been mined 

 by a Coleophora larva, and shortly after was rowai'dcd by finding one of the small, 

 straight, brownish cases of C. chalcojrammella, hut although I examined every shoot 

 of these patches of Cerastium separately, I could only find four more cases, making 

 five in all, so that they are evidently very scarce. I had no further opportunity 

 of searching for more of the food-plant about this part of the district, for the next 

 day turned out very windy and wet, with showers of sleet and snow, so that further 

 search under such conditions was impossible, and the following day my eight days' 

 visit came to a close. — Q-EO. Elisha, 122, Shepherdess Walk, City Road, London, N.: 

 June nth, 1891. 



Anisotoma Triepkii at Woking. — During last summer I caught two males and 

 two females of this rare beetle by evening sweeping on the heathery commons round 

 here. I suspected from their size and the shape of their posterior legs that they 

 belonged to this species, but I did not like to refer them to it for certain ; Mr. 

 Champion, however, has had the kindness to examine them carefully with his speci- 

 mens of Triepkii, and tells me that they agree with them exactly. While on the 

 subject of Anisotoma, is it known that any of the species habitually hop ? I was 

 much surprised the other evening after catching a small beetle flying, which I took 

 to be an Anisotoma, to see it give a considerable jump in my net. I then thought 

 I must have made a mistake as to its identity, but on bottling it there was no doubt 

 of its being a true Anisotoma, but I am not sure of its species. — Edwaed Saundees, 

 St. Ann's, Woking : June loth, 1891. 



Hydroporus ferruginous, Steph., in the Hastings district. — I have taken this 

 species in some numbers in two very small pools, less than a yard in circumference, 

 along the cliffs ; they seem to prefer the crevices in the rock, where it is no easy 

 matter to get them ; on one occasion I found about twenty in a small crevice in the 

 rock about half an inch wide.— A. Foed, Claremont House, Upper Tower Road, 

 St. Leonards-on-Sea : June, 1891. 



Otiorrhynchus sulcatus devouring ferns. — I have been Fery much surprised 

 lately to find this weevil destroying the fronds of the ferns in my greenhouse. 

 Noticing two or three specimens of the insect a fortnight ago, I concluded that they 

 had come from the vine which occupies a corner of the house, and the destruction of 

 the fern fronds I attributed to slugs. A nocturnal visit, however, disclosed the fact 

 that the weevils were the offenders, for they were clinging to the fronds, aud busily 

 nibbling away at the edges. In some eases little more than the mid-rib was left 

 remaining. The insect seems very partial in its tastes, and chiefly attacks the hart's- 

 tongue {Scolopendrium vulgare). A careful examination disclosed the fact that the 

 larvae had wintered in the pots which contained the ferns, for I found both pupaj 

 and newly emerged beetles buried in the earth. — Theodoee Wood, Baldock, Herts : 

 June Uh, 1891. 



[I can confirm the above observations, although I have not seen a reference 

 made to a like occurrence before ; some time ago, however, I received specimens of 

 O. sulcatus from a gardener, which he had found destructive to maiden-hair ferns in 

 one of his houses ; the larvte had been found at the roots. — W. W. F.] 



