230 



[October, 



Length '63 mm. 



Length of head "1 mm., of thorax •]9 mm., of petiole '16 mm., of abdo- 

 men "IS mm. ; length of anterior wing '6 mm, its width "2 mm., the longest 

 cilia about "25 mm. 



The antenna! joints are in the following ratio in millimetres (fiom the 

 scape outward):— •O67--033--OI7--O.'3--O4-O4-O5--OG--05--O4-O4--O3:5--05. 



Hab. England, New Forest, Broekenhur.st (J. P. Kryger). 



Season, July 24th, 1921. 



Type (one male) in tlie British Miiseuin. 



5 Brynland Avenue, 



Bishopston, Bristol. 

 September 1922. 



Leptura sangninolenta at Nethy Bridge, N.B. — I was interested in the 

 Rev. Canon Fowler's note regarding Leptura sanguinolenta, as in 1911 I 

 captured a nice series of this species, of which three are females, on flower- 

 heads at a bfink on the River Nethy, some distance up the river. I visited 

 the place this year but found that owing to floods the bank has considerably 

 altered, and f did not see any evidence of the beetle. — J. J.F. X. King, Glasgow: 

 iSeptejiiber Ut/i, 1922. 



[Dr. Sharp also found this common Alpine insect in some numbers at 

 Nf-thy Bridge. It was recorded b}' myself from Aviemore in 1876 and again 

 in 1892. — G. C. 0.] 



The distribution of Asemum striatum. — In the light of recent notes on 

 this beetle, it may be of interest to know I had a specimen brought to me in 

 1917 from a sawmill in Coventry'. — J. W. Saunt, 63 Enfield Road, Stoke, 

 Coventry : August 2\st, 1922. 



Cacnocnra bovistae in C(tnian:onshire. — I was fortunate enough to 

 observe this beetle depositing its eggs in a putl-ball {Bovista plumben ?) and 

 possibly a description of this operation may be of interest. The beetle, of which 

 two were working on the same puft'-ball, eats a small conical hole, 2 mm. wide 

 by 1 mm. deej), through the outer skin ; some of this may be swallowed, but 

 much was merely bitten off. This operation takes three-quarters of an hour 

 or probably longer, as the hole was begun when I found the specimen ; the 

 beetle then reverses its position and rests, with its tarsi folded in the pit, fur 

 from two to three minutes, another excavation is then begun. I Cduld not 

 find the eggs, but the hole made by the ovipositor was quite clear. This 

 operation was on fresh puff-balls, and the greatest number of pits observed 

 was seventeen ; other beetles were emerging or had emerged from dry puff- 

 balls a few feet away. The eggs are laid about half-way up the side of the 

 fungus, and as the marks are clearly visible as dots in the dry specimens, they 

 may be useful guides to collectors searching for the larvae of the beetle. — 

 G. IL Ashe, Portmadoc : Auyust Vith, 1922. 



