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top-liat, but it Hew into the garden on my left. I did the same, only I 

 had to tiy round by the gate, and by that time, the sjjecimen had dis- 

 appeared, and I saw no more of it. — L. J. Tkejiayne, College Hill 

 Chambers, 23, College Hill, E.C. 



Larv.e of Stauropus fagi. — Last year I purchased a dozen young 

 larvfe (})robably about twelve days old), and having lost one in the first 

 two or three days, reared all the rest in a sleeve, on a single spray of 

 l)eech (renewed as required), but tliough they were thus closely con- 

 fined, I saw no single instance of fighting, nor was there one damaged, 

 with the exception that one lost a joint of a leg, though there were 

 often two on a leaf, and on two occasions at least, when I had been 

 a\vay from home for a night, there was not an atom of food for them 

 in the morning, till about ten o'clock. Of the eleven that I reared, 

 nine sjjun between leaves on the twig, and two on the wooden Hoor (I 

 had by this time covered them witli a gaiize cylinder, on wood) in eacli 

 case, covering themselves with a leaf. I was particularly struek with 

 the neat way in which tliey s})un the leaves together, so that it w^is 

 iurpossilde to tell by merely looking at tlie branch, where the cocoon 

 Avas. I had, at first, a few eggs, but the young larvie refused to eat 

 oak, which Avas all I had to give them, and all died. — W. W, Esam, 

 Eagle House, St. Leonard's. February 22nd, 1893. 



(Joleoptera at Sudbury. — Having heard that Hovudota yemina Avas 

 to l)e taken in this locality, I paid it a visit on January 28tli with the 

 following result : — Under the bark of a dead stiimp in the hedge-row, 

 1 )etween Willesden and Sudbiiry, I found a long series of dead Hylemms 

 ritfdfns, and a little further along the road, two specimens of the rare 

 Iscliaoglossa corticina under oak bark. Notliing further turned up till 

 1 reached Harrow Weald, where a suital)le haystack presenting itself, 1 

 set to work, and from the refuse at tlie base of tlie stack I took Oxi/poda 

 riltata, 0. Ojiaca, 0. niijrina, L/fhochan'.'< melaiiocejjhalus aiul propinqims, 

 Flatyntetlim capito, Calyptoiuenix dabintt, Eiiplechis .sangnincKS, Enmicrus 

 tarsatus, Ceuthorliynclius troijlodylex, var. checrolati, Monotoma qaadrl- 

 rollif^ and Leptacinus batychrus. Coming back to Willesden across a 

 eorner of Wembly Park, I noticed an elm stump in the ground ; it Avas 

 a large one in circumference, but not more than four inches above 

 ground, and had moss growing over the bark and toji of the stump, so I 

 took off all the bark aiul moss, and l)rought it home to examine, and 

 was well repaid for the trouble, as in addition to Bhizopliagufi perforatus, 

 and a series of Lathrobiuia longnJiDu and Atomaria nantt, I took three 

 Hoiitalota <mtiniinal/s, 2 H. soror, 4 H. dcbills (all light coloured speci- 

 mens), 2 H. angustnla, 12 H. decipjienn, 1 H. cmpidata and H, analis of 

 all colours in swarms. HomaJota gcmina did not put in an appearance, 

 although I took about 50 or 60 UonndoUi analis in the hope of finding 

 some among them. — H. Heasler, 17, Danliy Street, Peckham. S.E. 



Societies. 



Entomological Society of London. — March 8, 181)3. — Dr. IJ. Sharp 

 exhibited a species of Enoplotrnpes from Siani, which was believed to 

 be new, and which he thought Mr. Lewis intended to describe under 

 the name of E. principally. This insect has great power of making a 



