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tho first week in September, many larvse of this species feeding on the seeds of 

 SteUaria gramiiiea. I only found it on a few plants, whieh grew well sheltered 

 amongst the furze-bushes. On some SteUaria plants, whieh were equally well pro- 

 tected, not a single Coleophora larva was to be seen. — Id. 



Larva of Coleophora deaurateUa in Cambridgeshire. — For the last two years I 

 had sought in vain for the larva of this insect in a spot where the imago was 

 plentiful, though local, and now I have at last succeeded in finding what is, I have 

 no doubt, the larva of C. deaurateUa. The larvae feed inside a floi-et of the red 

 clover, using the simple floret at first for a case, and afterwards shortening it down 

 to a stumpy-looking case, somewhat like that of C. paripenneUa ; the larvsD are very 

 active, brownish-yellow in colour, with two large dark spots on the upper part of the 

 2nd and 3rd segments, and two smaller spots on the 4th : there are also dark lateral 

 spots on the same segments. The larvee and the cases are both smaller than one 

 would expect from the size of the imago. — W. Warben, 51, Bridge Street, Cam- 

 bridge : September 15th, 1879. 



" Beetles inhabiting hot water." — In the Ent. Mo. Mag., p. 91, ante, is the record 

 of an interesting fact under the above title. M. Tournier's observations may be 

 supplemented by those of Sir Joseph Hooker, as detailed in his " Himalayan 

 Journals," vol. i, p. 25 (new edit., 1855). In the hot springs (called Soorujkoond) 

 near Belcuppee, " a water-beetle abounded in water at 112°, with quantities of dead 

 shells, at 90° frogs were very lively, with live shells, and various water-beetles." — 

 W. L. Distant, 1, Selston Yillas, Derwent Grove, East Dulwich, S.E. : August 

 Zlst, 1879. 



[In Hagen's " Bibliotheca Entomologica," i, 383, under the name of " E. J. 

 Hornung," is the following : " Hydroporus thermalis, n. sp., aus den heissen Quellen 

 der Euganeen. Bericht d. naturw. Ver. d. Hartz, 1840-41, p. 12 ;" but this book is 

 not accessible to me so as to get further particulars. This is the only reference 

 Hagen gives for insects living in hot water, but I am informed there are a few other 

 records, yet probably like that of Sir Joseph Hooker, not in entomological works, 

 and therefore not generally known to entomologists ; at any rate no references are 

 given to me. — J. W. D.] 



Note on a new species of Ceratorrhina from the West Coast of Africa. — Mr. 

 Rutherford, in the hurry of his departure for Africa, has figured as C. 4-maculata in 

 the Trans. Ent. Soc, 1879, pi. 1, a species hitherto uncharacterised. It is allied to that 

 species, but differs in many essential points : chiefly in the armature of the head, which 

 the figures referred to faithfully represent. Further, there is the difference in the 

 punctuation of the thorax ; in comparing the males in the present species the 

 punctures are somewhat larger, and the rugosity at the sides more evident. On 

 the elytra there are flue punctures, which assume the form of strise, both the humeral 

 and apical spot are clear and distinct, and the general outline of the species more 

 quadrate. The male of C. 4!-maculata is at present unknown, the female has the 

 pygidium red, and I think this character will be found to exist in both sexes. 

 Bearing this in mind, I propose the name of tnridipygns for the present species, 



