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for the County. Mr. Morley and Mr. Newbery were both inclined to think that the 

 insect was rt-ferable to C. querceti, it being 3 mm. in length, but Mr. Champion says 

 that, " by the sculpture of the thorax it can only be C. exiguus, of which it is a 

 large 9 , with the apex of the elytra smoother than usual." Edwards records it 

 ("Fauna and Flora of Norfolk — Coleoptera") from "Eaton Common, August, 

 1888; Horning {Tkouless) ; Woodbastwick (Potoer)," but he does not say how 

 commonly. I know of no other British records. — E. C. Bedwell, Holmedale, 

 Carlton Colville, Lowestoft : January \Uh, 1899. 



Coleoptera near Southampton. — In August and September last the following 

 were some of my best captures : — Aphodius nitidulus, A. rufescens and A. erraticus, 

 all common in sheep dung, especially A. nitidulus. Scolytus rugulosus, rather 

 common in a dead apple tree. Coccinella hieroglyphica, plentiful under fir 

 trees, together with Micraspis 12-punctata, the black variety of the former being 

 common. In a dead hedgehog I obtained Hister merdarius and Necrophorus vesti- 

 gator. Other captures were — Strophosomus retusus, abundant on heath, Ceuthor- 

 rhynchus ericce, Sibynia primita and Rhinoncus bruchoides. — L. M. BucKNiLL, 

 Thornfield, Bitterne, Southampton : December ISth, 1898. 



Birmingham Entomological Society : Novemler 21st, 1898. — Mr. P. 

 W. Abbott, Vice-President, in the Cliair. 



Mr. P. W. Abbott showed Hydrilla palustris, taken at Wicken Fen this 

 year,a short series, including a dark one, nearly black ; also Agrotis cinerea from 

 Brighton and Wyre Forest ; those from Wyre Forest (where he took six or eight) 

 were very difPerent from the Brighton ones, looking like a different insect, they were 

 mouse-coloured, with definite but not conspicuous markings, while those from 

 Brighton were wliitey-grey in colour, with very pronounced markings. Mr. R. C. 

 Bradley, Myrmosa melanocephala, ^ , from Sutton, with an apterous ichneumon, 

 Aptesis nigrocmcta, $ , which is remarkably like it in general appearance ; he said 

 that he understood that the ichneumon was a species infesting Hibernia defoJiaria. 

 Mr. J. T. Fountain, some good series of moths taken in the suburbs close to the 

 busy parts of the town ; these were Calocampa exoleta, Cerastis spadicea, Miselia 

 oxyacanthce, with var. capucina, Anchocelis pistacina, and Phlogophora meticu/osa, 

 long series of the last three. — Colbran J. Wainwright, Hon. Sec. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society: 

 October 27th.— Mr. J. W. Tutt, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Ashdown exhibited twenty British species of Longicorn Coleoptera, which 

 he had brought to add to the Society's Collections. Mr. Montgomery, a specimen 

 of the third brood of Cyaniris Argiolus, bred on September 30tl) ; specimens of 

 three broods of Selenia bilunaria, of which the third brood followed the second ; 

 and specimens of a third brood of Coremia ferrugata, bred. Mr. Mansbridge, two 

 blue vars. of the female, and two under-side vars. of Folyommatus bellargus, and 

 remarked that the female of this species seemed to get more blue year by year. 



