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Saunders captured a single specimen in 1888 {cf., Ent. Mo. Mag., xxv, p. 35). 

 Chilacis typhcB and Ischnorhynchim resedm in a marsh. Soplomachus Thunbergi, 

 Fall, July 2nd, 1903. Oncotylus vlridijlavus, Goez, August 15th, 1903. Macro- 

 tylus solUarius, Mey., by sweeping, August 5th, 1903.— Id. : November Qth, 1903. 



Hypocoprus in Hast Sussex. — When collecting at Camber, near Rye, in August 

 of last year, I came across half a dozen specimens of a minute beetle which T did 

 not recognise at the time, but which turned out to be the species standing in our 

 Catalogues as Hypocoprus lathridioides, Motsch. Mr. E. A. Newbery, to whom I 

 showed the insects, pointed out to me that, according to Reitter, our insect should 

 be called H. quadricoUis, Reitter, as distinct from lathridioides, Motsch., and this 

 has since been confirmed by Mr. Champion. The beetles were taken, I believe, under 

 a dead bird, but of this T cannot be quite certain, as, through not recognising at the 

 time what a rarity I had found, T did not note with sufficient care the exact details 

 of the capture.— E. A. Butler, 53, Tollington Park, N. : November Gth, 1903. 



Labia minor, L., in October.— Apropos of Mr. R. McLachlan's note in the 

 preceding number of the Ent. Mo. Mag., p. 285, on the appearance of Labia minor, 

 L., at Lewisham during the last week in September, it may bo of interest to record 

 its still later occurrence at Grange-over-Sands.at thehead of Morecambe Bay, where 

 I met with it on October 9th, in a sheltered lane leading up from the little township 

 to the lower slopes of Hampsfell. The morning was a very fine one, with sunshine 

 of that hot and scorching character always associated with a wedge-shaped type of 

 weather. Amongst CoJeoptera occurring at the same time were Telephorus rusticus 

 and Rhagonycha testacea, Malacoderms I have never before seen so late in the year, 

 whilst a few days earlier Clytus arietis was captured on a rose. — E. J. B. Sopp, 

 Birkdale : November 5th, 1903. 



Ochsenheimeria Birdella in a hay loft.— In the beginning of August (to be 

 exact, on the 10th) I went up to my hay loft to see if there were any insects to be 

 had at the window, for I had found by previous experience that numbers of insects 

 came out of the hay to the light of the window. On this occasion there were with 

 other insects numbers of a little moth, which attracted my attention as being some- 

 thing I had not seen before. I accordingly captured some specimens ; I could have 

 had dozens if I had wished. When I came to examine them 1 found that they 

 were as I had at first supposed, total st -angers to me, and not being well versed in 

 Micros, I sent them to my kind friend Mr. Barrett, who informs me that they are 

 Ochsenheimeria Birdella. As to the presence of these moths in the hay, I think it 

 must be explained thus. The hay was cut between July 2nd and llth ; now Mr. 

 Stainton (Manual, ii, 287) gives July as the month of emergence ; but here we are 

 a full month later, so that they would be either in the larva or pupa stage, probably 

 the latter. About a month elapsed between the cutting of the first part of the field 

 and its being carted in to be put into the loft, so that there would be time for the 

 moths to be ready to emerge from their pupa cases, which evidently must be in or 

 on the grass stems. Had they been emerging before we moved the hay I should 

 have noticed them. The window at which I took them is just at the ladder by 

 which entrance is given to the hay loft from the stable, consequently this window 



