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[The Welsh insect hitherto doing duty for B. ochraceus in British 

 collections, so far as I can judge from a specimen ((J) given me by 

 the late S. Stevens, agrees with those found by Dr. Joy in the form 

 of the antenual club ; but it differs from them in having the pro- 

 thorax and elytra more hairy, and more densely punctured, and the 

 pygidium granulate, as in H. solstitialis. So far as my experience 

 goes, it is the males only of the various day-flying Rhizotroiji that are 

 to be found on the wing in the hot sun, aud these disappear soon 

 after mid-day. Last summer, while in the Cantabrian Mountains, 1 

 met with two such species, both in profusion, and captured a large 

 number of specimens of each of them, all apparently males. — G. C. C] 



Note on the larva of Caenonympha pamphilus. — I have a few of these larvae 

 feeding on a plant of Festuca ovina in a flower pot. One supposes they ought in 

 feeding to go to the end of a leaf, and, beginning at the tip, to eat it down towards 

 the base, and some may be seen to do so. More frequently, however, they begin to 

 eat a leaf in the middle, letting a large terminal portion fall and be wasted. But 

 some of them are less thoughtful even than these, and remind one of the humorous 

 print in which a practical joker in cutting off the inn signboard sits on the end of it 

 ■while he does so. These larvse in beginning to eat in the middle of the leaf, rest 

 on the terminal portion, and when they have eaten it through, fall with it on to the 

 table, with of course disastrous result, unless I happen to come to the rescue. I 

 ought to say that the larvae are about or more than half grown. Is this procedure 

 of the larvse abnormal, owing to being in captivity, or is it quite usual with a 

 species feeding on common grasses ? Pamphilus can live on so many grasses that 

 at large it would practically never suffer any injury by such a habit, as it always 

 occurs where grass is plentiful. I have never seen such a habit in any species that 

 lives on shrubs and trees, or indeed in any other species, and should doubt its being 

 harmless to many Satyrids that live on grasses that grow in widely separated tufts. 

 The great care to avoid such an accident taken by Saturniad and other large tree- 

 feeding larvee, reminds one of the caution an elephant is said to take as to his 

 footing. Pamphilus is a sluggish larva, and has not the resources of many active 

 larvse that drop to the ground when disturbed. Its safety lies in its being prac- 

 tically impossible for it to get away from its food plant. — T. A. Chapman, Betula, 

 Reigate : November 19^/t, 1904. 



Coleoptera at Rannoch. — During the present year I have had the opportunity 

 of spending a couple of week ends at Rannoch, and a (evi notes on the better 

 captures may be of interest. 



My first visit was from June 4th to June 6th ; the weather was very bright 

 and sunny, but with strong cool winds. The best capture was one specimen of 

 Staphylinus fulvipes, Scop., captured running on a road which traverses the centre 

 of the Black Wood. In the well known Dall wood yard the following occurred : — 



