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adhering to various parts of its body, four in a row on each side above, 

 and five on the underside in groups of two and three. The caterpillar 

 was in an advanced state of marasmus, the anterior half of its body 

 being much emaciated ; it still clung to leaves, but was unable to eat 



or crawl The parasites were 1^ mm. in length, grass-green, 



smooth, shining, pyriform, and obtuse behind ; their cephalic 

 extremity (for it can hardly be called a head) was plunged into the 

 body of the victim, the posterior and blunter end remaining free." The 

 larva died on August 18th, and by the morning of the 21st all the 

 parasites had released themselves from its body. On the 22nd they 

 changed to delicate Avhite pupje, " lying on their backs, unprotected by 

 any cocoons, and now showing the whole Hymenopterous structure of 

 antennje, legs, etc., packed into the smallest compass." In the course 

 of a few hours the colour changed to grey, and then to deep black. 

 The imagines emerged on September 11th and 12th. 



The sale of Mr. W. Farren's Psi/cJddae and Tincina is announced by 

 Mr. J. C. Stevens for December 2nd. The beautiful condition and 

 perfect setting of the smaller species is sure to prove a great attraction, 

 and to provoke considerable competition. On December 10th, the 

 collection formed by the late Mr. W. H. Tugwell will be sold. During 

 his last illness we understand that Mr. Tugwell labelled every insect in 

 his collection. The collection contains long series of many rare and 

 local species. 



Mr. G. C. Champion [K. M. M.) adds Bouhiiliiun rircns, GylL, to 

 the British list, having taken specimens in 1892 on the shores of Loch 

 Maree, in Eoss-shire. 



The Knto))i()l(i(/ist's Mmitlili/ Mai/a::i)ie for November is rich 

 in records of captures of rarities. Mr. E. W. Lloyd captured two speci- 

 mens of Amara alpina on the summit of Clrayvel, near Loch Eannock. 

 Mr. H. J. Cuthbert obtained one Carabus canccllatus near Rosscarbery, 

 in West Cork. Mr. J. J. Walker was successful on three occasions 

 during the year in obtaining Psanwwbius pdirirollis in fair numbers 

 at Whitsand Bay, Cornwall. He says that the species " appears to be 

 restricted to a space of a few square yards in extent, about half-way up 

 the cliffs, and 30 or 40 feet above high water mark, where the clean 

 sand of the beach passes into a sort of loam .... It is usually 

 found in a burrow about an inch long, either at the side or just under 

 the edge of the stones, and is frequently so coated with red earth as 

 not to be at once discernible when the stone is raised." Mr. Walker 

 thinks that it is obtainable during the whole of the spring and summer, 

 as he found it on March 25th, and again in August. Of Lepidoptera 

 the Eev. E. N. Bloomfield mentions the capture of a rather worn 

 specimen of Catncala fra.vini in a house on the outskirts of Hastings, 

 on September 25th. Mr. Sydney Webb noticed among the Natural 

 History Collections made by the pupils of Mr. Murray, of Upper 

 Walmer, a fine female (irapta c-alhum, caught in the grounds of the 

 school, at the end of September. 



Mr. F. Lovell Keays calls attention (7'.'. ill. M., November) to the 

 emission of a filthy smell by a specimen (?) of Bapta hiviaculata 

 {('orijcia tain inata), which reminded him of "an unusually 'strong' 

 Chri/sopa in full blast. The chip box smelt for hours afterwards, 

 whilst the stench in the damp box in which it was temporarily placed 

 made the box intolerable until thoroughly aired." 



Mr. J. T. Fountain recommends {Entom., November) slaked lime 



