NOTES ON COLLECTING, ETC. 153 



I saw a whitish patch glueing together two of the linear leaves of a 

 Weymouth pine, and pulling the branch down, found that the couple 

 were girdled round with a deposit of the eggs of some Noctuid. They 

 were dirty yellowish-white (changing afterwards to reddish-brown), in 

 form two-thirds of a hemisphere, and with . about 50 ribs, and laid 

 regularly but obliquely round the leaves in rows of 10, and in between 

 70 and 80 rows, so that at the lowest computation there must have 

 been over 700 eggs. The leaves on which they were laid were near the 

 extremity of a branch, and more than six feet from the ground. 

 Again, I found a similar deposit on a boundary tennis net, at about 

 the same height, and two years ago I had seen similar eggs on the net 

 in two or three places, but forgot to collect them before hatching. On 

 both pine and net they were diliicult to recognise, looking at first sight 

 like the stain of bird's droppings. I suspected the eggs to be those 

 of T. orbona, but they have turned out to be T. pronuha. Can they 

 have been laid away from their food-plants as ground feeders, so that 

 a larger proportion of the 700 might have a better chance in the 

 struggle for existence through being scattered as young larvfe, and 

 also avoid a wholesale slaughtering in the egg state by ants or spiders, 

 or some of their natural enemies ? It looks like a protective arrange- 

 ment, and probably there was a similar instinct inducing iJ, ruhi to 

 desert the heather when depositing her ova. — Buckerell. October 15tJi, 

 1895. 



Coleoptera at Ipswich in 1895. 



By CLAUDE MOBLEY, F.E.S. 



Many additional species have this year turned up to my previous 

 records of Suffolk Coleoptera [Ent. Bee, vol. v., p. 52, and vol. vi., 

 p. 114] which may be of interest. I will not, as before, give a full 

 list of the species taken, but merely enumerate the additions, making 

 at the same time one or two notes on the better species of last year, 

 and 1893. 



(Ji/chru.s rostratus, never before seen alive, was on sugar with a 

 large slug between its mandibles, on August 10th, whether it was 

 attracted by the sweets or the mollusc I cannot say. Several Amara 

 InninilUs were found in moss in the early spring, and with working 

 should turn up commonly. Pristonnelem subci/aueKs appears to have 

 quite deserted its old haunts, in which it used to be abundant on 

 sugar. I omitted to record last year a couple of Patrobm e.veavatus, from 

 under a log, on 25th May, Metabletus obseuroi/uttatu.s, the scarcest of 

 the genus hereabouts, was taken from aquatic plants on March 22nd. 

 Hydradephaga and Hydrophilidae have been worked with considerable 

 success, and the following species added : Haliphis cinereus, Hudruporics 

 erijtJtniceplialu.s, H. melanucephalus, H. pictiis, H. lituraUia, and 

 H. nhjrita. Hijdrnpnriis halefrnx, which turned up not rarely last year, 

 has not put in a single type this, nor have I seen L'oelambm jiaralldo. 

 j/rcuiimus. Of theHYDROPmLiD.E, all the Anavaenae swarmed in company 

 yvith Laceobina alutareus, Hehiphonmajfhm, H. brevipalpis, and Jli/drocJius 

 anijiistatus. I added I'hihjdrm sntiintUs, P. ni(/rican.s, P. te^taceus 

 and P. oralis, Beroms luridus, Limnebius pappoms and L. truncatelhis, 

 Helophorus aeneipeiinis, Ochthebiiis py;/iiiaeus, and Hydraena testacea ; 



