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here in swarms. I also saw or took numbers of Nisionades tar/es, 

 SyrichthH^ maloce, Polyorimiatus pMoeas, Ccenonympha 2'>anipMlus, Panagra 

 petrarla, Euholia plumbaria, Einatnrga atomaria, Eiiclklia gjypliica, 

 Venilia maculata, HeJiaca te')iehrata, Coremia designata, lodis lactearia, 

 Euclklia mi, Emmelesia alhidata, and Spilosoma mendica. On the 22nd 

 April I took Phisia gamma, Ino statices, Eachelia j acobcece, Thyatyra batis, 

 and Spilotioma menthastrt. On the 24tli April I found nearly full-fed 

 larvfe of Diloba ccerideocephala, feeding on plum and laurel, and larvae 

 of TJrapteryx sambucana, feeding on privet. A lot of Noctua festioa 

 emerged in confinement last week, and I have never seen such large 

 specimens of this sj^ecies. — A. Nesbitt. May 2nd, 1893. 



Ephestia desuetella (not kithniella) in Jamaica. — In a previous 

 number of the Record there appeared a notice concerning the sujjposed 

 occurrence of E. kuhniella in Jamaica. This was based on an exami- 

 nation of the larv^ found, which, while certainly not mteiyunctella, 

 seemed to agree, in all respects, with those of kiihnieUa. However, 

 when the moths appeared later, they did not seem to agree well 

 with liiUuiiella, so I sent some to M. Eagonot to make sure. The 

 reply has come that they are Ephestia desuetella (Walk.) = cahiriteUa, 

 Zell. = passulella, Barrett. — T. D. A. Cockerell. April 2nd, 1893. 



CoLEOPTERA AT WiLLESDEN AND Hanwell. — Acton Lane, Willcsden, 

 is not exactly a sjiot to give a coleopterist any ideas as to its being a 

 good locality for beetles, and I was considerably surprised last February 

 to find that good insects were to be taken there, in spite its uninviting 

 appearance. I had gone to Willesden with the idea of walking to 

 Hanwell, and then round by Sudbury, back ; but, as a matter of fact, 

 I never got as far as Acton. The first piece of loose bark I pulled off 

 contained a nice specimen of Haplocnemus impressns, so I set to work on 

 the surrounding stumps, but although no more Haplocnenms turned uy), 

 I took Scapjhidema wnea and Bhinoaimus viridipennis, and further doAvn 

 the lane, in one of the adjacent fields, there was a three-forked oak 

 stump, with a large clump of grass growing in the centre, and by 

 shaking this I secured Psetaplms heisei, Scydmcenus hirticollis, Oxypoda 

 nigrina, Euthia scydmoenoides, Trogopldoeus elongatidus, and a light coloured 

 (? of Tychus niger, while from the fungus growing on the stump I took 

 Cis villosiduft. 



On the following Saturday I went to Hanwell, but was not so 

 successful, the best insects taken being Centhorhynchus ritgidosiis, 

 C. troglodytes, Alophns trigattatiis, Engis rufifrons, Cis cillosuhis, Beiitbi- 

 diuin 4:-macidatum, (Jorticaria ptmctulata and Hoiiialota gregaria. — H. 

 Heasler, 17, Danby Street, Peckham, S.E. 



Tkogus lapidaior, possibly British. — From one of a number of 

 Papilio macliaon larva? purchased last July, I obtained a large Ichneu- 

 mon, which was pronounced by a specialist, to whom it was sent, to be 

 Trogtis lapidator, with the remark that it had never been met with in 

 English specimens of machaou. The dealer from whom I obtained 

 the larv«, said he was sure the larvae came from Soham,.as he had no 

 machaon from the Continent till the autumn. Of course, I could only 

 come to the conclusion that he might have made a mistake, but seeing in 

 your current issue the notice of that reared by Major-Gen. Garden, I 

 thought the incident might be worth mentioning. — W. W. Esam, 

 St. Leonards. April Idth, 1893. [It would be, perhaps, well if the gen- 

 tlemen who reared this parasite were to find from each other whether 



