1909.] 215 



T. darwinianus, Sharp. These were taken by him by sweeping on the banks of the 

 Medway, near Upnor, on May 31st, 1857. This is about nine and a half yeai's 

 before Dr. Sharp described the species from examples taken at Aberlady (Trans. 

 Ent. Soc, 3rd ser., vol. v, p. 436). — Edw. A. Wateriiouse, British Museum 

 (Natural History), Cromwell Road, S.W. : August llth, 1909. 



[I have T. darwiniamis from the Isle of Sheppey, taken on the salt-marslies 

 adjoining the Medway. — -J. J. W.] 



Further localities for Cryptophagus subdepressus, Gyll. — The known range of 

 this species, so recently added to our lists by Dr. Joy, is rapidly becoming extended, 

 and it will probably be found to occur on the spruce fir in most places where that 

 tree exists. I found the beetle sparingly this summer in the Wellington College 

 district of Berkshire, and have lately added it to the Herefordsliire list of Coleo- 

 ptera. In the latter county it occurs at West Malvern, on the Great Doward Hill 

 opposite Symonds Yat, and in Dr. Wood's garden at Tarrington — J. R. le B. 

 ToMLiN, West, Malvern : August 20th, 1909. 



[C subdepressus has been quite recently taken on spruce firs at Wytham Park, 

 Berks., by Mr. J. Collins of Oxford, as well as by myself in his company. —J. J. W.] 



The food-plant of Chrysoclista limaculella, Haw. — My friend. Professor A. 

 Schmidt, of the Budapest Museum, has allowed me to publish the interesting fact 

 that the larva of Chrysoclista himaculeUa, Haw., feeds under the bark of Salix alba, 

 L. Professor Schmidt found large quantities of freshly emerged examples of this 

 moth at rest on the trunks of some very large willow trees {S. alba) in a wood near 

 Budapest, and he satisfied himself that this tree was the food-plant of the insect. 

 Chrysoclista himaculeUa is probably far commoner in the British Isles than is 

 generally suspected, and should be searched for. — N. Charles Rothschild, Arundel 

 House, Kensington Palace Gardens, London : July 26th, 1909. 



Abundance of Stenophylax alpestris, Kol. — Following up the clue of the finding 

 last year (Ent. Mo. Mag., Series 2, xix, p. 185) of the until then excessively rare 

 Stenophylax alpestris, on the morning of June 30th last, I, in company with Mr. 

 L. S. Brady, motored eight of the ten miles from Sheffield to the wood. For a long 

 time we failed to find the precise spot where I had taken the nine specimens in 

 1908, and until we did so, not a trace of the species could wo discover. At length, 

 however, we hit upon the right ground, and then the insect was plentiful enough. 

 With Mr. Brady's assistance it was not long before I had nearly fifty specimens in 

 my boxes, when we left that part of the wood to search for other things, but it 

 would not have been difficult to have taken as many more. It was evidently local 

 in the wood, and occurred among small pines on swampy ground, with here and 

 there narrow and shallow ditches running through it. Its habits were altogether 

 different from those we associate with a Stenophylax . When the branches of the 

 trees were slightly tapped with the beating stick, it flew somewhat leisurely in the 

 sun for a short distance, then usually settled on a grass stem or a heather twig. A 

 good many, however, were noticed flying in the sun, I believe quite freely, /. e.. 



