274 THE entomologist's record. 



tlie banks of a reservoir near the town, Tachytisa constricta, reared ; 

 Stenus t/tdtnld, S. hipimctatus, abundant ; and swarms of common 

 Bevihidli. 



I have still a number of undetermined species of Homalota, Oxypoda, 

 Aleochara, Scydmcenidce, itc, which I hope to Avork out during the 

 winter, taken at the above localities. — A. Ford, Glen Mount, Braybrooke 

 Koad, Hastings. October 2nd, 1893. 



Callijiorpha HERA IN SouTii Devon. — I had three days after 

 Callimorpha hera in South Devon and netted five, all hens, and now I 

 have a promising family party feeding on lettuce, but I was rather late 

 for them, and my S2)ecimens are sadly worn and, worse still, had laid 

 most of their eggs. I got two of the yellow variety. — E. A. Bowles. 

 August 2Sth, 1893. 



EuBOLiA I'ERiBOLATA. — In addition to my captures in Guernsey 

 enumerated last month, I was successful in taking a good series of 

 the very pretty little Geometer, Euholia p)eribolata, which seems gene- 

 ndly distrilnited here, but local only as regards abundance. I found 

 it on September 2nd on Delancey Hill, and on the 4th at Moulin Huet 

 Bay ; it is very easily disturlied from the common furze ( Ulex europoim), 

 which is, I l^elieve, its food plant. — Albert J. Hodges, Guernsey. 

 September 5th, 1893. 



Coleoptera at Sudbury last May. — As I had already had a very 

 successful hunt in this locality in January, I paid it another visit in 

 May, with the hope of getting some of the summer insects, and took my 

 net for sweeping the hedgerows, but before I came to any hedgerows 

 worth sweeping, I noticed a half dried-up i)ond in a field by the road 

 side, so I got over to see if any insects were to be obtained, as I had 

 found beetle life in superabundance at Hendon, a few Saturdays back, 

 in a similar situation. 



The first thing I saw was a small " Staph " running over the mud, so 

 I got it in a })hial to examine, and discovered it to be Tacky nsa concolor, 

 a s})ecies only taken in the London district and always looked upon as 

 a rarity. It is unfortunately one of those species which go rotten very 

 quickly in the laurel bottle, so I only took between forty and fifty, but 

 could easily have secured double that number. TacJiyusa fiavitamis was 

 e([ually abundant, and amongst the other " staphs " taken were Philonthus 

 atratns, P. quisquiliarius var. dimidiattis, P. procerulus, Lathrohium qnad- 

 raturii, Trogopldceus jmsiUns, and heaps of the commoner Stem. 



The ground beetles were also in considerable numbers. I took seven 

 Dyschirius aniens (one of which was quite black), and Anchomcnus viduus, 

 and the var. inastus, A. fnlighxosus, A, picciis, Cldcenms nigricornis, 

 Bemhidium fernoratum, B. brnxeUense, B. lampros var. velox, B. variuiii, B. 

 Jiammulatum, B. articidatum and B. 4:-maculatum, were all more or less 

 common. 



On the banks of a stream (the river Brent, I suppose,) about a 

 dozen yards from the pond, I found Anchomenus oblongus, Bembidmm 

 bijnmctatutn, DeJeaster dichrous and Ceiithorhynchus viridipennis. As 

 might be well imagined, I did not do much sweeping, the only insect 

 worth mentioning being PliyUotreta ochnpes, of which I took a series 

 from Erysimum alliaria. — H, Heasler, 17, Danby Street, Peckham. 



Newspai'er Entomology. — Under the head of " Kural Notes," the 

 following article api)eared in the Graphic for September 9th, and will 

 no doubt convey some new ideas to entomologists : — 



