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and the pmictiu-es placed closer tog-ether. It is quite evident tliat the Conti- 

 nental insect requires a new name, and I propose to call it L. Jlcischeri. I prefer 

 to discuss later the qiiestion as to whether L. similata is a var. of L. hadia or a 

 good species. — Norman H. Jot, Bradfield, Reading : April 6th, 1911. 



Epipeda nigricans : a correction. — The species recorded by me under this 

 name (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xlv, p. 268) is Atheta (Homalota) inhabilis, 

 Kraatz. I took further specimens of it last year at Pitlochrj', Perthshire. It 

 could hardly be mistaken for any other member of the genus, and can only be 

 compared to Epipeda plana, Gryll. — Id. 



Oxytelus saulcyi, Pand., near Portsmouth. — I took five examples of this 

 insect in a mole's nest close to Widley, Hants., on March 7th. I have worked 

 many nests this winter abovit Torquay, Weymouth, and Portsmouth, but the 

 above-mentioned specimens are the only ones I have taken, so it would appear 

 to be a rare, or at all events a local insect. — M. Cameron, H.M.S. " Attentive," 

 Home Fleet : April 1th, 1911. 



Symhiotes latus, Redt., and Plegaderus dissectus, Er., near Oxford. — At the 

 end of January I foiuid two specimens of Symhiotes latus in a piece of hard 

 fungus broiTght home by me from the hollow interior of an elm stiuup near 

 Wood Eaton, Oxon, and laid aside on a shelf in my study for several days. 

 Sitbsequent visits to the stiunp have prodviced a fair series of this interesting 

 jittle beetle, for the most part in chinks of rather diy wood permeated with 

 fimgoid gTOwth. On April 13th I was greatly pleased to turn out of a wet 

 rotten place in the hollow a specimen of Plegaderus dissectus ; a very unexpected 

 capture here, the more so as the species has not to my knowledge been recorded as 

 occurring in elm. In the New Forest I have taken Plegaderus not uncommonly 

 at times, but without exception in much decayed beech timber. Other Cole- 

 opterous tenants of the stump include Ahrseus glohosus, Mycetasa hirta, and Cis 

 nitidus, all in numbers, and one Niptus crenatus, which latter species is not 

 uncommon in the manger of a cowhouse not very far away. — James J. Walker, 

 Oxford: April 18th, 1911. 



Note o?i the larva of Halonota turhidana, Tr. — The larva of this species 

 appears to be unknown, or, if known, thei'e is no published description of it up 

 to the present time. Barrett (Lep. Brit. Is., vol. xi, p. 48) says, " Larva imde- 

 scribed. It is believed to live through the winter, and till May, in the stems 

 and roots of Petasites vulgaris, buttei'-bur." Meyrick (in his Handbook Brit. 

 Lep., p 496) states " Larva probal)ly in roots of Petasites." Naturally, as the 

 moth is always foimd attached to this plant, it has been siuunised that the larva 

 must feed on the roots of the butter-biir. To settle the point if possible, I 

 invited my friend Mr. James W. Corder, of Sunderland, to join me in a visit to 

 Greatham, where I had previously taken the moth, to search for the larva. We 

 journeyed to the ground on the morning of March 2.5th (a bitter cold day, with 

 occasional showers of hail), and after about three hours' hard work succeeded 



