Gl [August, 



of the improbability of so acute an observer as Gyllenhal intending the descriptions 

 of his cochlea/rice and pvlvinatus to refer to the same species. Marsham's name 

 stands, being anterior to Gyllenhal's p'^^lvinatus, with which it is specifically 

 identical. — Id. 



Occurrence of Calosoma inquisitor nea/r Burton-on-Trent. — In a wood near here 

 I was fortunate enough, early in June last, to take about 30 specimens of this 

 insect ; and could have taken more. 1 found several in the hot sunshine ; and also 

 just at dark, moving about freely on tlie stems of the oak trees ; but did not 

 observe many dm'ing the day-time high up on the branches, as described by Mr. F. 

 Plant in " The Zoologist," some years back. — J. T. Harris, 31, Lichfield Street, 

 Burton-ou-Trent, July 3rd, 1865. 



Capture of Sitones Waterhousei. — I was fortunate enough to meet with the above 

 insect last autumn in the Isle cf Wight, in which locaUty it has not, I believe, 

 hitherto been recorded as occurring. — T. Blackburn, Jwne, 1865. 



CcBnonym/pha Davus (from the German of Prof. Zeller, in Stett. Ent. Zeit., xxvi., 

 p. 29j . — " Of the larvae of this species, common on all the bogs and peaty places of 

 Mark Brandenburg, of Silesia (at Glogau), and of the province of Posen, no 

 published information is known to me, except that given by Zetterstedt at p. 905 

 of his " Insecta Lapponica " (overlooked by Wallengren in his excellent " Skandi- 

 naviens Dagfjarilar "), — "larva glabra, lucida, teste D. Boisduval." In Boisduval's 

 works, as far as I possess them, I find no description of it, so I do not know where 

 Zetterstedt got his information. 



The larva, which Uves exposed, ard rests rather high on the grass-leaves, is 

 tolerably easy to observe, but easier to capture with the net; but that nothing concern- 

 ing it has been made known, is, doubtless, because the collectors leave unobserved 

 butterfly larvae, since they obtain the imagos much more easily by the net than 

 by breeding. 



I found, on June 25th, when the butterflies were already flying in abundance, 

 in an open bog, two tolerably grown larvae, resting on the long narrow leaves 

 of a bog Carets, growing in tufts. They were on such a sod that, although the 

 leaves had to be cut, it could easily be kept fresh, and fed on it for more 

 than three weeks. They fed by day, resting on the leaves ; yet they imme- 

 diately dropped into the moss on being disturbed, where they remained lying 

 rolled up for some time. The first, after remaining quiet and stretched out on a 

 stalk for a few days (its ground colour becoming watery, and its markings paler, 

 and several black dots appearing, as if it had been piicked), hung itself up by some 

 silk on the 12th of July, and became a pupa on the 13th. In the second the change 

 followed the first on the 20th of July. The butterfly from the first appeared on August 

 2nd, before five o'clock in the morning, and that from the second on August 11th, 

 later in the morning, in rough weather ; both are very small females. That they 

 appeared so late, especially as there is scarcely a well-worn ? to be. seen in the fi-ee 

 state, is doubtless owing to the larvte and pupae being kept on the noi'th side, in 

 front of the window. 



