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pairing thus prevented. It not infrequently happens that when ova are obtained 

 from captive fcnaales, a portion of the batch prove infertile, indeed, I have long held 

 an opinion that it is the rule rather than the exception, and have, therefore, generally 

 allowed the male to remain with the female during the time that she was depositing 

 ova, and have, on more than one occasion, observed what I believe to be an act of 

 re-union after a natural separation ; but in the following case the details were 

 carefully observed, and entered in my diary at the time. On May 24th, 1889, four 

 males and three females of the Irish form of Spilosoma mendica emerged from pupse, 

 one of eacli sex was selected and the two put together in a cardboard box covered 

 with leno for a lid, througli which their movements coiild be well observed without 

 interfering with them. At 8 a.m. on the 25th they were in cop. ; they were left 

 undisturbed during the day, and in the evening they had separated and ova were 

 deposited, and on the morning of the 26t]i, at the same hour, they were again paired. 

 Thus there were two distinct pairings between tlie same individuals, and ova were 

 deposited before the second act of copulation took place. — Robt. Adkin, Lewisham : 

 October, 1891. 



(Jmias moNinus, Boh. — I have taken several specimens of this local insect near 

 the Trent, on the borders of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. — A. Thoenlet, 

 South Leverton Vicarage, Lincoln : October, 1891. 



[This beetle used to be found by the late Mr. W. Garneys and myself on the 

 banks of the Old Trent at Repton, Eurton-on-Trent ; it probably occurs throughout 

 the Trent valley.— W. W. F.] 



Gnorimus nobilis, L., and Trichius fasciatus, L., in Herefordshire. — Mr. E. W. 

 Bowell has recently sent me a single specimen of Gnorimus 7wbilis, labelled Hereford, 

 July, 1891, and three or four specimens of Trichius fasciatus, from the banks of the 

 river Monnow, Herefordshire, concerning which he writes as follows : " These were 

 bred by my friend Dr. Chapman, the food of tlie larva being the wood of Alnus 

 f/lutinosa. I have seen the insect flying on several occasions;" in that same box was 

 a specimen of Molorchvs minor, taken at a Roman villa near Woodstock on July 

 1st.— W. W. FowLEK, Lincoln : October lOih, 1891. 



Trechus lapidosus, Daws., and other Coleoptera, tf'c, at Charmouth, Dorset. — 

 While staying at Charmouth in August, I found Trechus lapidosus in numbers under 

 shingle at the mouth of the Char ; the mouth of tlie river was entirely silted up, 

 forming a long pond, and on its banks I took fifty or sixty specimens of the beetle in 

 one morning ; Bemhidium saxatile was very abundant, accompanied by the var. 

 vectensis, and Myrmecopora (Tacht/usa) uvida, and other small Staphylinidce, were 

 to be found, but sparingly ; after some heavy rains the Char burst tlirough into the 

 sea, and the Trechi seemed to disappear. On the road between Charmouth and 

 Lyme Regis, I beat about a dozen specimens o{ Lebia chlorocej'hala,var.chri/socephaIa, 

 off broom ; they were very scarce, and occurred singly, or in small numbers, on 

 different days ; not a single specimen of the type form was seen ; Gonioctena litura 

 was very abundant on the broom ; I did not come across any specimens of tlie dark 



