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Habitat of Jliridiits qnadrivirgatus, Costa. — Mr. HaU's query in Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., vol. xxiii, p. 91, reminds me of my experience with the above insect. I have 

 taken it frequently and not uncommonly at several places near Hastings, always by 

 sweeping in grassy places, and never in connection with sallows of any kind. The 

 spot in which it occurred most abundantly was a sloping field of no great extent, 

 with a western aspect, about a mile from the sea, and overgrown with grasses and a 

 considerable variety of other low hei-bage. The insect is certainly not confined to 

 the coast line, for I have taken it as far inland as Kobertsbridge, about twelve miles 

 from the sea.— E. A. Butler, Crouch Hill, N. : September Sth, 1886. 



Capture of Leptomorphus TFalkeri, Curt., a rare fly. — Yesterday I had the 

 pleasure of taking a specimen of Leptomorphus Walkeri, one of the rarest and 

 prettiest of our British Diptera. It is admirably figured by Curtis. — C. W. Dale, 

 G-lanvilie's Wootton : September Wth, 1886. 



Scybalicus longiusculus at Portland. — On July 2nd I had the pleasure of taking 

 one of the above in the Isle of Portland ; I also captured a couple of Polystichus 

 vittatiis at the Burning ClifE on May 24th. EwpitJiecia irriguata has been very 

 scarce this season, but E. subciliata common. — Id. 



Notes on Adimonia tanaceti, L. — This beetle is common in a little moist meadow 

 adjoining Maltby Wood, near Louth, Lincolnshire, where its larvae (black above and 

 dark olive-green beneath)lmay be found plentifully feeding on the leaves of Scabiosa 

 succisa. One one occasion I also saw them eating Centaurea nigra. On July 6th 

 this year I took home some nearly full-fed larvae ; one of them which I separated 

 from the rest pupated on July 11th, and remained in that state eleven days. The 

 larva, when about to pupate, retired to a chink in the earth at the bottom of the 

 vessel in which it was kept, and surrounded itself with a slight cocoon of brown silk, 

 to which small pieces of earth were attached. The pupa is yellow, with a few short 

 black hairs above ; the antennsE and wings lie immediately behind the first and 

 second pair of legs, and their ends overwrap the third pair of legs. Two days before 

 the imago emerged, the head, thorax and legs of the pupa darkened into grey. — 

 H. Wallis Kew, Louth, Lincolnshire : September 2nd, 1866. 



Tenacity of life in Litcanns cervus. — A large S , caught on August 7th at 

 Battcrsca Park was given to me, and was still living after ten minutes' exposure to 

 the densest fumes of sulphur I could create. I never knew of an insect existing so 

 long in such an atmosphere. Another curious fact respecting it is, that after re- 

 maining on the setting board nearly a fortnight, it almost fell to pieces on removal ; 

 this circumstance I can only attribute to some peculiar action of the sulphur fumes 

 upon the beetle, and would recommend Entomologists to kill L. cervus for the future 

 in boiling water. This insect is, I hear, common this year ; I have received two 

 from Battersea Park this month. — E. Bkttnetti, 129, Grosvenor Park, Camberwcll, 

 S.E. : August 10th, 1886. 



