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Occurrence of Stenolophus hrunnipes, Sturm, in Britain. — I have recently taken 

 a species of Stenolophus, which answers very well to the descriptions I have seen 

 of S. hrunnipes, Sturm ; it also agrees with specimens of that insect in collection 

 of the British Museum sent by Herr Dohm. S. irunnipes is about the size of S. 

 dorsalis ; black, with the basal joint of the antennae, the legs, and the reflexed 

 margin of the elytra, testaceous. The thorax is broader in proportion to the width 

 of the elytra, not so much narrowed behind, the posterior angles more rounded, and 

 the basal fovese more punctured than in S. dorsalis ; the elytra also are rather" lon- 

 ger in S. hnmnipes. 8. derelictus, Dawson (a species I am not acquainted with), is 

 also closely allied to this insect, but the differences are pointed out in Geod. Brit. 

 I took a single specimen at the beginning of the present month in the neighbour- 

 hood of London. — D. Sharp, 13, Loudoun Road, N.W., May 11th. 



New British Epurcea. Epur.ea oblonga, Herbst ; Erichson, Nat. der Ins. 

 Deutsch. iii, 153, 17. — I have recently taken eight examples of this insect under fir 

 bark at Shirley. It resembles E. pusilla in build, but is rather smaller and flatter, 

 more delicately and closely punctured, with the front of the thorax very slightly 

 hollowed (in fact almost straight), and the apex of the elytra truncate. It differs 

 from E. longula in its flattened surface and finer punctuation. It is yellowish brown 

 (almost straw coloured when alive), with the usual deceptive triangular scutellar 

 patch and sub-apical spots on the elytra, caused by the folding of the wings; rather 

 closely and very finely punctured. The club of the antennse is dusky at the 

 tip, the apical joint being smaller than the two preceding. The head has two 

 slight depressions in front, between the eyes, united by an almost obsolete hne. 

 The thorax is about a third shorter than broad, very gently hollowed in front, 

 rounded at the sides, and with the margins flat, especially behind. The elytra are 

 very long, more than twice the length of the thorax, the margins narrowly depressed, 

 and the apex truncate, but rounded at the angles. In the male, the middle tibiae 

 are dilated at the apex on the inner side, and slightly sinuate. — E. C. Uye. 



Note on the larva of Leucania littoralis. — On the 13th May I found full-fed 

 larvae of L. Uttoralis at roots of Ammophila arundinacea ; I have met with these 

 larva3 for some years, having first, accidently, in 1861, captured a small one, which, 

 after feeding up and being duly figured, was reared ; when very young their colour 

 is glaucous green, with longitudinal stripes, assimilating closely to the underside 

 of the almost cylindrical blades of their food-plant ; after April they leave then* 

 hiding places, and burrow beneath the sand, having, by this time, considerably in- 

 creased in size, and having, also, become much paler in tint, some individuals being 

 almost whitish green, others of a pale flesh colour. — Wm. Buckler, Lumley 

 House, Emsworth. 



Descriptions of six Larvce of the Genus Lithosia, ly William Buckler. 



Lithosia pygmcBola. — On the 7th June, 1862, I had this larva kindly sent me by 

 Mr. Doubleday. It was said to feed on lichens growing amongst moss, but lived only a 

 few days, as I could not find any such lichen as the small portion of food which 

 accompanied it, and which had a very pungent saline odour ; it refused all other 

 kinds of lichen, and so starved. 



It was short and rather thick, tapering a little posteriorly ; brown on 

 the back, with a thick black dorsal line, the sub-dorsal lines dark brown, and the 

 sides rather paler brown, with a dirty white line along the spiracles ; the tubercles 

 with short brown hairs, and the head black. 



