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local T. wiinnecophilus at Hastings (by the kindness of Mr. W. W. 

 Esam), and a few each of T. altemans, Gyll, and 1\ scjiiaiiinlattis, 01., 

 these latter at Ildianthemum roots on the chalk at Croydon. One of 

 the specimens of T. myrmccophilns is very interesting, as it retains 

 intact the pair of "false mandibles," by the help of which, in certain 

 groups of the Ehyncophora, the perfect insects are supposed to " work 

 their way through their surroundings on their emergence from the 

 pupa state," which is passed underground. C'aenopsis waltoni, Schon., 

 (1) under ling in Epping Forest, September. Oiiiias molliniis, Boh., a 

 few specimens by sweeping at dusk in a grassy place on the banks of 

 the River Loa on warm evenings at the end of May and beginning of 

 .June ; it appeared to be limited to a few yards, and required a great 

 deal of working for. Jrlijpera altcmans, Steph. [pollux var.), several 

 observed in May in the ditch where I have previously taken it, but all 

 I saw this year were very worn. Pseudosti/pJihis pilliinnius, Gyll., a good 

 series swept from 21at)-icaria by the side of a cabbage field, at Edmon- 

 ton, June. Sibinia potcntillae, Germ, (one), in moss, Croydon. Gijm- 

 netron viUosulus, Gyll., one, out of a dock plant at Cheshunt, in October, 

 evidently a wanderer ; I have also received a nice fresh series of this 

 species from Yeovil, Somerset, bred by my friend Mr. C. Nicholson, 

 from galls in the flower-heads of Veronica anatjallis. Cionns tHhercidosiis, 

 Scop., which in previous years I have taken freely in the Lea Valley, has 

 been very scarce this year, only a single specimen having been captured, 

 and the same may be said of the thistle-feeding Tanyniecus palUatns, 

 F., which is also usually common. CeutJiurrhi/ncns iiuianostichns, Marsh., 

 one by sweeping water-mint, Cheshunt, July. Baria lepidii, Germ., in 

 some numbers in June and August in marshy places here, at the roots 

 of a plant which has been provisionally identified for me as Barbarea 

 praeeo.c; 7j. /)iV/ro/vi/.s, Marsh., several at the roots of its usual food- 

 plant on the downs near Croydon, September. Maiplalis barbicornis, 

 Latr., a few males from a tall dense hawthorn hedge surrounding a 

 garden near Waltham, in June, and I also shortly afterwards took a 

 male and female by beating, at Dorking ; these captures caused me to 

 look over my previously caught specimens of Mai/dalis, with the result 

 that I found an undoubted $ of barbicornis placed in my collection as 

 2Lpri(ni; this I beat out of a crab-apple bush in Pymmes Park, 

 Edmonton, in June, 1899. Of M. cerasi, L., I met with only a single 

 specimen, beaten from a wild rose bush at Tottenham in June. In 

 other groups I may mention : — Spliodrits leucnpldhalmux, L., a fine 

 pair from a granary at Edmonton. Homaloplia niricola, F., 

 struggling on its back in a road at Dorking. Xyhipihilus oculatus, 

 Gyll., several at Tottenham in July, by beating the sunny side of a 

 hawthorn hedge, close to an old oak. A', poptdnens, Panz., sparingly 

 by beating hedges at Edmonton, Tottenham, &c. Dorcatoina fiavicornis, 

 F., one out of an apple-tree at Tottenham. Elater elowiatulus, 01., a 

 few from dead wood, and one on the wing. New Forest, where I also 

 found a specimen of Aseninin striatum, L., sitting on a fence, and 

 several Aplwdins tristis, Panz., in a sandy place; my visit was at 

 Whitsuntide, and these were the only species I got of any interest, 

 things being very backward. — F. B. Jennings, F.E.S., 152, Silver 

 Street, Upper Edmonton, N, October, 1901. 



