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Mo/orchti.t umbel latarum, L., at Wimbledon. — I took a fine specimen of this 

 somewhat scarce Longicorn by beating dead hedge sticks in a field adjoining Wim- 

 bledon Common on the morning of July fith. — Id. 



Coleoptera in Cheshire and Lancashire. — Having an hour to spare in Manchester 

 on Monday afternoon, June 19th, and recalling a record in this Journal about the 

 banks of the Bollin, I made enquiries as to how I could get out there. I arrived on 

 the banks of that stream near Hale about 5 p.m., and started to walk along them. 

 I was soon rewarded by a specimen of Bembidium paludosum, Panz., and in half an 

 hour took as many specimens as I wanted ; I also found Bledius subterraneus, Er., 

 and Tachyusa scitula, Er., two specimens, constricta, Er., and flavitarsis, Sahl., 

 being abundant, single specimens of Trechus micros, Herbst, and Cryptohypnus 

 riparius, F., completed the afternoon's work. Half an hour at about the same time 

 on the following afternoon on the sea shore near Hightown, between Liverpool and 

 Southport, resulted in the capture of Bembidium paflidipenne, 111., Dyschirius im- 

 punctipennis, Dawson, and Bledius arenarius, Payk., all in some numbers, the work 

 being done between two violent rain storms. — Id. 



Cassida murrcea, L., Sfc, at Oxford. — During an enjoyable visit last week of the 

 members of the Council of the Entomological Society to Prof. E. B. Poulton at Oxford, 

 our party went for an afternoon walk to Boar's Hill, near that city, under the guidance 

 of our kind host. The weather was anything but summerlike, but one or two in- 

 teresting insects were noticed in the course of our ramble. Sarpalus discoideus, 

 which has recently been taken rather freely in the district by Mr. W. Holland, was 

 apparently not scarce under stones in a sandy field, the specimens being much larger 

 and finer than those from Woking. On a little patch of fleabane {Inula dysenterica) 

 growing in a damp spot by the side of a footpath we found Cassida murraa, the 

 traces of its larviB, in all stages of growth, being very conspicuous. Only one ex- 

 ample of the perfect beetle was met with on this occasion, but Mr. Donisthorpe and 

 I, in a hurried visit to the place next morning, succeeded in taking half a dozen 

 more, all of the red form, and of so bright a colour in life as to be very inadequately 

 represented by the dingy looking dry specimens in our collections. The larva appa- 

 rently does not differ, in any material detail of structure, from that of C. viridis 

 figured by W^estwood (Mod. Class. Insects, vol. i, p. 377, fig. 46, 10) ; it is clear 

 pea-green in colour, sliglitly striped lengthwise with a deeper shade of green, and 

 with longitudinal dark sap-green markings on the dorsal surface. It eats the paren- 

 chyma of the young leaf from the upper-side, leaving the margins and under-side 

 untouched, and when disturbed has a comical habit of elevating the excrementitious 

 " umbrella," with which it is furnished in common with the other larvae of the 

 genus. Some fully grown larva? which I brought away fed freely in confinement for 

 a day or two, and then, attaching themselves to the side of their box, became 

 flattened bright green pupae with strong reddish setae round the margins of the body. 

 — James J. Walker, Shecrness : July lOth, 1899. 



P.S. — To-day (13th) a specimen of Cassida murrma — oddly enough of the green 

 variety — has emerged from the pupa, the duration of which state thus appears to 

 bu less than ten davs. 



