so LAl-il, 



observe is characteristic of all true Solenohice. These thi'ee forms, 

 supposed to be distinct species, but possibly all one species, each have 

 sixteen joints in the flagelium of the antenna, and four joints in the 

 tarsi. 



Solenobia conspurcatella has only nine joints to the flagelium of the 

 antenna, and only three joints to the tarsi ; whether this is a specific 

 distinction, or entitles it to a place in another genus, is unknown to 

 me from the ignorance I have just referred to. The males of incon- 

 spicitella and conspurcatella have the usual five joints to tlie tarsi. I 

 have seen no males said to be triquetrella. 



Taloeporia pseudo-homhycella, 5 , has five tarsal joints, and twenty- 

 five joints in the flagelium. 



Fumea intermediella, $ , has also five joints to the tarsi, but only 



twelve joints to the antenna; neither of these pupae emerges from 



the case. 



Firbaiik, Hereford : 



January, 1896. 



Stipplementary note to my remarks on the distinctness of larval and pupal 

 instars. — It would seem that diminished nutrition was not commenced before a 

 certain amount of change towards the pupal state had occurred, and this could not 

 be undone ; possibly had the diminution of nutrition been begun earlier, as in the 

 preceding skin, the further larval instar would have been of a completely larval 

 character. The actual amount of change towards the pupa that exists in these 

 larvse would no doubt repay analysis, from several points of view, as, for example, 

 the relative fixity of different larval and imaginal structures. Could we, for in- 

 stance, correlate the perfectness of the mandibles, and the change in the antennse 

 and maxillae, with the fact that the earliest Lepidoptera {Eriocephala) possessed 

 imaginal jaws, and the next earliest {Micropteryx) still retained them in the pupa.— 

 T. A. Chapman, Hereford : February, 1896. 



[This arrived too late for incorporation with the original article at pp. 54-57 

 ante. — Els.]. 



qUEDIUS RIPARIUS, Kellnee : A SPECIES NEW TO BRITAIN. 

 BY W. G. BLATCH, P.E.S. 



During a visit to Porlock last month, I found a Quedius which I 

 at once recognised as being new — at least to Britain — and not finding 

 in Erichson's " Gen. et Spec. Staphylinornm " (the only continental 

 work on the subject in my possession) any description that would fit 

 it, I sent specimens to Mr. Gr. C, Champion, who pronounced them to 

 be Quedius riparius, Kellner. 



This beetle is very beautiful, and amply distinct from all other 

 British species. Of course I had the usual hope that my insect 



