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These questions, as well as the suggestive parallelism of the growth, 

 caused in the cambium layer of a plant, by the mechanical, or chemical, irri- 

 tation of a gall-maker, hymenopterous, dipterous, or other, to certain new 

 growths in the Animal Kingdom, unite Entomology with Medicine in a deep 

 interest.— F. H. Haines, Brookside, Winfrith, Dorchester, Dorset : Feb. 1th, 1914. 



A few Coleoptera, Sfc, from Bengal. — One of my sons, who has frequently 

 caught small Coleoptera, &c, on the wing in Surrey, has just sent me a sample 

 of what can be obtained in this way at Sarda, Bengal, in December. The 

 locality is on the Ganges, 150 miles from Calcutta, and about half the insects 

 taken, upwards of 100 species in all, were captured flying towards sunset. The 

 genera with few exceptions are familiar European types, and it is interesting to 

 note how many are common to such widely separated regions. The number of 

 species in each genus is as follows : — Dyschirius (4), Tachys (9 or 10), Metabletus 

 (1), Harpalus ? (1), Acupalpus (2), Chlsenius (1), Amblystomus? (2), Casnonia (1), 

 Philhydrus (1), Berosus (1), Limnebius (1), Cercyon (2), Sphseridium (1), 

 Heterocerus (3), Georyssus (2), Limnichus (2 or 3), Aleochara (2), Atheta (1), 

 Philonthus (3), Actobius (1), Cryptobium (1), Psederus (3), Sunius (1), Medon (2 

 or 3), Lithocharis (1), Stenus (l),Bledius (3), Planeustomus (2), Trogophloeus (2), 

 Oxytelus (4), Pselaphus (1), Sacium (1), Hydnobius (1), Olibrus (4), Carpophilus 

 (1), Ephistemus (1), Cryptophilus (1), Psammoecus (1), Cathartus or Silvanus (2), 

 Melanophthalma (2), Monotonia (1), Onthophagus (2), Aphodius (8), Rhyssemus (2), 

 Luciola (1), Lamprorhiza ? (1) Rhizopertha (1), Gonocepjhalum {l),Cnemeplatia (1), 

 Ennebwus (1), Anthicus (3), Notoxus (1), Macratria (1), Xylophilus (1), Myllo- 

 cerus (1), Cleonus (1), Nanophyes (1), Bagous (2), Apion (1), Xi/Zeborus (1), 

 Pachnephorus ? (2), Diapromorpha (1), Oides (1), Aulacophora (l),Monolepta (2), 

 Luperus? (2) , Languria (1) , Coccinella (1), Exochomus ? (1), &c. The Hemiptera 

 include, amongst others, Microvelia (1), and Geocoris (1). Four species of 

 Coleoptera — Lithocharis ochracea, Grav., Aphodius lividus, F., Rhizopertha 

 pusilla, F., and Anthicus fioralis, F. — are cosmopolitan. Aulacophora abdominalis, 

 Oides Jiava. Diapromorpha melanopus, Luciola vespertina, and Myllocerusblandus, 

 Favist, are known Indian insects. The Tenebrionid genus Ennebwus, Wat., has 

 a remarkable distribution— Tasmania, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, the Sarda 

 insect being closely related to E. miiformis, Ch., from Panama. Of the Staphy- 

 linid genus Planeustomus, one Indian species only is known, and that from 

 Burma. The Cnemeplatia is probably C. indica, Fairm. — G. C. Champion, 

 Horsell, Woking : February, 1914. 



A note on the pairing of Atemeles paradoxus. — On May 5th, 1913, I placed 

 two freshly caught specimens of the myrmecophilous beetle Atemeles paradoxus, 

 Grav., into a small plaster cell, in which had been put some days previously 

 a queen and a few workers of the host ant Formica fusca var. fusco-rufibarbis, 

 For. My object was to observe, and if possible to photograph the beetle in the 

 act of stroking and fondling the qvieen with its antenna?. In the spring of 1912 

 an Atemeles kept under similar conditions repeatedly behaved in the manner 



