92 [ September, 



On my return home, being better and more in a condition for entomological oc- 

 cupation, I histened to study my captures, in which I felt interested in the highest 

 degree, and being now fortified with Eottenberg's monograph of the genus Laccohius 

 I had no difficulty in ascertaining that my species was undescribed, and I named it 

 thermarius. 



The fact of a beetle living in hot mineral water of a maximum heat of 49°, which 

 it must endure at least several times a day, and which in no case becomes less than 20°, 

 is very singular, and I do not know if it has been hitherto observed ; however this 

 may be, there is a new and intei-esting addition to our fauna. I tried at Baden, when 

 I had the living beetles, the experiment of putting some into a glass of drinkable 

 water, cold, such as is served at table, and remarked that they became less lively and 

 less active than in their usual condition. 



Laccohius thermarius, n. s^. — Length, Ij mill.; breadth, | mill. One of the 

 smallest species of the genus, smaller and especially shorter than L. viridiceps, Eott., 

 and L. Revelieri, Perris, but of a form relatively broader and more convex ; in general 

 form it is like L. nigriceps, Thorns., and belongs to the same Group A of Rottenberg, 

 of which the known species are distinguished from others by the puncturation of the 

 thorax not being confluent but with intervals smooth and shining ; it cannot be con- 

 founded with any of the varieties of L. nigriceps, Thoms., on account of its size, 

 colour, and puncturation. The thirty examples I have before me are identical and 

 show no variation. (A detailed description follows) . — H. Toueniee, in Mittheilungen 

 d. Bchw. ent. Gesells., v, 434. (1879). 



[The scene of this exploit was the baths of Baden, Canton Aargau, Switzerland, 

 to which M. Tournier, being ill and scarcely able to walk, went under medical advice 

 in July, 1878. It is not the first time that an entomologist has made an interesting 

 discovery in rebus adversis, but I do not remember another instance of the pursuit 

 of science vmder the difficulties of hot water. — J. W. D.]. 



Orchestes iota. — Last year, at the end of July and beginning of August, I found 

 Orchestes iota in abundance in the neighbourhood of Brockenhurst, New Forest, on 

 the sweet gale {Myrica gale) which grows very plentifully on some marshy ground 

 about a mile from the village. I have fovmd so many good collections without a 

 specimen, that I thought this new locality for it worth recording. — W. W. Fowlee, 

 Repton, Burton-on-Trent : July, 1879. 



Insects in Sntherlandshire. — In September and October, 1877, I was for some 

 time at Balbair in Sntherlandshire, and, among the Coleoptera there taken by me, 

 was a Cicindela in the larval state. I dug it out of its burrow, one of several, in 

 the sandy edge of a moor above the Shin river. I tried to rear the larva but failed, 

 80 I can only guess it to be tliat of C. campestris. Among other Coleopterous 

 captures was a specimen of Staphylinus stercorarius, taken out of a patch of horse- 

 dung, which was absolutely heaving with continuously changing tliousands of Aj^ho- 

 dius contaminatus. Dromius quadrimactdatus occurred at svigar, Harpalus rujicornis 

 and Otiorhynchus sulcatns under stones, Lema. cyaneUa and Frasocuris aucta by 

 sweeping. 



The Lepidoptera, particularly the Geometers, were very abundant. Among the 

 Diurni, Argyn^is Aglaia was pretty well represented, and the females of Lycmna 



