232 tHE ENtOMOLOGlST's RECOUii. 



four specimens of this species from the yarrow growing beneath a rose 

 bush by the roadside. Five thousand feet appears to be a good 

 elevation for this species. Platyptilia iin't^neri. — This insect occurred 

 among the PctasiU's, as at Le Lautaret, but the specimens were 

 smaller at La Grave. Lord Walsingham tells me that, " although 

 this species was described by Zeller, he did not possess it." It loolvs 

 at first glance very much like a large dark 1'. (jnnotlactiila. 



CoLEOPHORiDES. — Colenphora ornatiiicnnvHa. — This species, very 

 like a large C li.n'Ua, was not at all uncommon among the clumps of 

 Al)si/)ithiuiii, whence it had evidently gone for shelter. C. ribiccUa. 

 — Very fine and large specimens of this species were also disturbed 

 from the Absi/nthiuin. 



TiNEWES. — Mi/Diu'cv^ela ochracella. — One specimen only obtained 

 in the pine wood on the slopes leading to the Meije. Buccidatn'.r 

 ahdntldi. — Although abundant on three or four plants of Absi/itthiuin, 

 this little species was not at all generally distributed among the 

 Alisi/nt/iiuiii in the locality. 



Coleoptera near London in June. 



By CLAUDE MORLEY, F.E.S. 



Why is it that one likes so much better to write of the insect-fauna 

 of any one else's district than of one's own ? I have been collecting 

 assiduously in Suffolk all the year, and yet only one tiny note of my 

 doings is in print. Nevertheless, the moment I get away from home, 

 and poach on someone else's preserves, I needs must put pen to paper, 

 and show how superior are my takings to those of the habitue ; how 

 very much better than he I could work his own district ; and, in fact, 

 what an old sIoAV-coach he must be not to make very great discoveries 

 indeed in a district that appears to me — with only one day's experi- 

 ence —so rich in new species (simply because the geological formation, 

 and consequently the flora, is very different from my own !) Or am I 

 prompted by a better force — that of sympathy of man for man, and 

 do I simply record these facts in the hope that my brother of the net 

 and pin may read, mark, learn and inwardly digest them (metaphori- 

 cally), skip such species as he is full of (figuratively), and ramble in 

 the direction indicated, in the hope of picking up any I may have 

 chanced upon new to his locality ? Whatever the cause, here is the 

 effect. 



Ealing was the first locality singled out for trial, and my friend 

 Mr. Ernest Elliott, F.I.L and I jogged along on the top of a 'bus, in 

 the most glorious weather, to the erstwhile " village," on the 18th. 

 But the moment we reached the country it poured with rain to such 

 an extent that one sweep, which showed up ^laltlKKlfs atoinus, Anobium 

 fulricornc and Lissudenia l-iimtulata, was all that was possible. On the 

 19th we entrained for Ewell, and, walking thence to Epsom Downs, 

 met with several unusual species, though nothing rare. Anthobium 

 (ijihiluihniciuii (in great numbers), Anthcnijiltcinus pallens, Anasinn flava 

 var. thoracica occurred on flowers of, for the mosD part, T^mhclUfcrae. 

 I'lii/Ilotirta no(lia>rnis was very common on Ileseda lutea, from which 

 we also took CdHttliorrhi/nchus niari/inatus and Baiis ahmtani. Miarus 

 cainpanidae and Orcheatcs fwji were swept from HcUantlumuin chainai'' 



