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Locality fw Ca/robus auratus. — I have in my collection a specimen of this rare 

 beetle, taken by a friend (who knows little of Entomology, and has no foreign 

 insects) on the coast, at Torbay, in (or about) 1854. When I received the speci- 

 men, its left elytron was pierced with a very coarse pin ; but I have since re-pinned 

 it with a fine one through the same wing case. — R. Lyddeker, Hai-penden Lodge, 

 Herts, 22nd February, 1865. 



Notes from Japan. — The sea- weed here is full of the ordinary coast forms, such 

 as Ueterothops, &c. ; and I get Cossv^s, with its Homalotce, Nitidadce, &c, : as may 

 be easily imagined, I have all the trees to myself. Longicomes and OwrcuUonidos 

 are fine and common ; Lycoperdina occurs in toad-stools ; the oaks are covered with 

 Apoderus and Agrilus, and Crioceris is largely represented in species, but I have, 

 as yet, only seen three or four Geodephaga ; one of which, a Cicindela, is awfully 

 sharp on the wing. I am told that Da/master blaptoides is very abundant near 

 Tokohamma. Butterflies and moths are fewer than at any place I have visited, 

 being even more scarce than at Penang ; there are, however, 6 or 8 species of 

 " clearwings " very common. — George Lewis, Nagasaki, July, 1864. 



Offer to ca/ptwre Lucanus cervus. — I should be very glad to capture specimens of 

 I/, cervus for any entomologist who would hke them ; I could have taken hundreds 

 last year. — Henry Stephens, National School, Alverstoke, Gosport. 



Observations on the habits of Oligoneuria rhenana, Imhoff. — The eggs of this 

 species are attached to the last abdominal segment, and are enclosed in a clear 

 jelly-hke substance ; and I have noticed that, soon after extrusion, this egg-bundle 

 becomes so hard and brittle that it can be broken like glass. The images appear 

 at Basle in the first days of September, in immense numbers ; but their existence 

 is limited to a day or two, after which period their dead bodies may be seen lying 

 about in heaps in corners of the seats of bridges, where they are accumulated by 

 the wind, until a contrary current of air carries them away. 



Their rise from the water begins soon after sunset, and I may mention that 

 they are never seen coming out near the banks of the river, but always from the 

 middle, where the water is deepest and has the strongest current. I have not yet 

 been able to find the larva, nor is it any where described, so far as I know. — 

 Albert Mullfr, 2, Camden Villas, Penge, S.E., 1st February, 1865. 



[The singular Ephemeridous insect to which these notes refer, appears to be 

 alniost confined to the upper part of the River Rhine ; a few scattered specimens 

 have occurred at Turin, and also (a variety) in Hungary. — R. McL.J 



Rhyssa persuasoria. — In one of my entomological rambles about two years 

 since, my eyes lighted upon a fine female specimen of this large Ic^newmoT!-, en- 

 joying, as I was, the genial heat of a summer sun. In an instant, my net was 

 over it, for I had never seen the like before. The length of the body was from 15 to 

 16 lines, and the ovipositor 19 lines, giving a total length of nearly 3 inches ! This 

 species is, I believe, the largest of the European Ichneumons. — H, Dorville, 

 Alphington. 



