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Tn 8omo cases many of tlio wasps liad left, the coin m unity, and with tliem pre- 

 sumably most of the beetles, the latter being on the wing early in September. The 

 imagines of Metcecu.i present were enclosed in sealed cells, and some of them seemed 

 to have been dead some time. Nor do I think there remained siitlicient warmth in 

 the season to develop any of the pupae. 



On completing the digging out of the nearly empty comb of Ve-ipa gennanica 

 on September 29th, nine days after the community had been destroyed, I observed 

 a beetle on the wing, which I recognised as Meicecus, hovering round the trunk of 

 an oak close to the wasps' nest. I knocked it down with my hat and captured it, 

 a (? . My brother then observed a 9 on the same tree. She was searching the bark 

 with her ovipositor and paused apparently to lay, though we did not see any eggs, 

 for the bark contained deep crevices in which presumably they would be hidden if 

 there were any. This V ™y brother captured. 



On October -Ith, on revisiting the spot, I observed another ? Metaecus resting 

 on the same tree on which the first was taken five days previously. 



She did not appear to be laying or making any movement. The day was cold. 

 Upon examination she appeared to me to have laid her eggs already for the 

 abdomen was rather small and contracted. She died two days afterwai'ds witliout 

 laying in confinement. 



It seems likely that both these ? s laid at least a portion of their eggs on this 

 tree, i.e., on living bark. Their close proximity to the nest of Vespa <jennanica would 

 not be enough to establish any connection between them for, lOu yards away, was a 

 nest of Vespa vulgaris, in which Metcecu.s was subsequently found, and whence the 

 three beetles in question may have come. — GtEoegb A. Crawsuay, Leighton 

 Buzzard : November dtk, 1904. 



Tetratoma fungorum, F., at Sherwood Forest. — In the third week of October 

 last I took a considerable number of this fungus-feeding beetle; they all occurred 

 either on the under-side of Boleti growing on birch, or in the root where the Boletus 

 joins the tree. All were found on this year's growth of fungi ; the most diligent 

 search, however, completely failed in finding any trace of either larva or pupa in the 

 old growth. Should this insect be a desideratum of any Colcopterist I shall be 

 much pleased to supply specimens. — J. Kidson Taylor, 35, South Avenue, Buxton : 

 December 2Uh, 1904. 



Clinocara tetratoma. Thorns., in Uerhyshire. — On June 11th, 1904, I beat out 

 of hazel, in Miller's Dale, a single specimen of this rather uncommon species ; on 

 the same day, also by beating hazel, an example of Polydrusus micans occurred to 

 me. Of the former the only record for this district appears to be Repton, Burton- 

 on-Trent (Q-arneys) ; and of the latter, Bretby Wood, Eepton (Canon Fowler's 

 British Coleoptera). — Id. 



The flight of Ehizotrogus solstitialis, Linn. — With regard to the flight of 

 Ehizotrogus solstitialis, L., referred to by Dr. Norman Joy {ante p. 1 7) in his in- 

 teresting contribution to our knowledge of the habits of the rarer S. ochraceus, 

 Enoch, I may mention that our commoner chafer also not infrequently flies by day 



