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sent, tlic wood is enclosed in a glass jar, so as to afford an opportunity of obserring 

 the habits of the creatures, this being probably the first time that any species has 

 been found alive in this country. In the south of France, two small indigenous 

 species do considerable damage, and a small North American species (Termes flavipes) 

 had at one time estabhshed itself in the hothouses of the gardens of Schimbrunn, 

 at Vienna, iirincipally infesting the tubs in which plants were growing. I know not 

 if it still exist there. I hope, hereafter, to give additional notes on this interesting 

 subject, and to bo able to add the specific name of the species, if it be described. — 

 R. McLachlan, Lewisham : loth May, ISV-l'. 



P.S. — Since the foregoing notes were written, I have made a more extended ex- 

 amination of the insect, and think it to belong to an undeseribed species. It is allied 

 to C. soUcIhs, Hagen, but is somewhat larger, darker in colour, and with a slightly 

 different form of prothorax. The types of solidns are from childi-en's collection, 

 with, unfortunately, no indication of locality. In his Monograph, Hagen, when de- 

 scribing C. brevis, a species from Central and South America, speaks of two examples 

 enclosed in copal. It seems to me scarcely probable that an American species should 

 occur vuidcr such circumstances, and quite possible that these entombed individuals' 

 may be identical specifically with those now bred from the wood of the copal tree, for 

 C. brevis, although decidedly different, is yet allied, and a minute examination of 

 insects enclosed in copal or amber is always attended by uncertainty. Two erroneous' 

 names have been given for the Kew insect ; firstly that of Etdermes lateralis. Walker' 

 {cf. Proc. Linn. Soc, May 7th, 1874), and E. nemoralis (cf. ' Nature,' No. 238, p. 57 ; 

 probably a misprint, for there is no species of that name). — E. McL. : May 22iid, 1874. 



iVb^e on Aphelochirus cBstivalis. — A specimen of this very interesting and rare 

 Hemipterous insect was taken in the Bathampton Wick river (near Bath) on the 

 17th September, 1868, by E. C. Broome, Esq., and is now in the Local Natural 

 History Collection of the Bath Institution. It is in the same condition (with rudi- 

 mentary hcmielytra, and destitute of wings) as the individual I took long ago at 

 Eynsham. — J. O. Westwood, Oxford : May, 1874. 



Eupitheci<B tioo years in the pupa state. — With reference to the note in the May 

 number of this Magazine on JE. dodoneata, I may state that my experience with expal- 

 lidata is that more than half of the specimens I capture remain two years in the 

 pupa. This happens continually, season after season. — John Hellins, Exeter : 

 lUh May, 187-1. 



Note on Eubolia Uneolata. — In my paper on Eubolia lineolata, I omitted to 

 mention that in 1868 I had a spring brood of larvse, all the moths from which 

 appeared as a summer flight in July, except one specimen, which remained over the 

 winter, and did not appear until May 20th, 1869. — Id. 



Note on Rhopalocera from Africa. — I have just received a very fine specimen 

 of Papilio Antimachus (the third) taken by Mr. Rogers at the Gaboon, and several 

 new species of which it is too late in the month to send descriptions. There are two 

 examples of Pieris rapes, which it would puzzle the most microscopical species- 

 maker to separate from ours. — W. C. IIewitson, Oatlands, Weybridge : May, 1874. 



Confirmation of Dianthoecia aJhimacula as a British species, with description 



