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Notes on Ephippiphora tetragonana. — My first acquaintance with this species 

 was made on the 9th August, 1885, when I casually met with two specimens — not 

 in the best condition — in a wood near this town. Owing to the lateness of the season, 

 I only obtained three or four more that year, but determined to look out for it earlier 

 in future, and I am pleased to say that my efforts last year were rewarded with a 

 good series. The earliest captures were made on the 18th July, when the insect was 

 in fine condition ; and I continued to meet with it till the middle of August, the 

 condition being generally good up to the first week in that month. From observation, 

 I should say that the best time of the day for it is from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., when it 

 flies rather briskly about two or three feet above the ground amongst the wild rose 

 bushes, which are scattered over a considerable portion of the wood. Its flight is 

 rather similar to that of its congeners, E. cirsiana and E. himaculana, but still more 

 closely, I think, resembles that of OrtJiotcenia striana. Not unfrequently I watched 

 it till it settled on a rose, or bramble leaf, but it never rested long. In the bright 

 sunshine it flies more rapidly, and is then, from its colour, somewhat difficult to follow 

 with the eye. Its food-plant here is, to my mind, imdoultedly rose, and I searched 

 hard for the larvae last May, though without success. This year, however, I have 

 good hopes of being more fortunate in this respect, and, if so, shall be glad to 

 communicate the result. — W. A. Atmoee, 1], Albion Place, Grantham : Fehruary 

 22nd, 1887. 



Homalota cavifrons, Sharp.— Homalota cavifrons occara not uncommonly in the 

 Pentlands in spring and autumn, and also in the Queen's Park, Edinburgh, on the 

 under-sides of stones lying on the turf, and in moss. The males, which are easily 

 distinguished by the wide frontal depression and the black bristles at the extremity 

 of the abdomen, vary a good deal in colour, some specimens being much paler and 

 more rufous than others, without, apparently, being immature. The females, which 

 are much more like analis, but smaller, and with shorter elytra, are generally 

 uniformly dark in colour. They are very active, and when two or three are on the 

 under-surface of a stone, it is no easy matter to secure them, especially if a high wind 

 is blowing. — R. F. Logan, Colinton, Midlothian : March Wth, 18^7. 



Hydnohius punctatissimus, Steph., 4'c., near Margate. — Upon the 8th of No- 

 vember last, while casually strolling along the shore, I found a few specimens of this 

 beetle crawling upon the cliffs, and a brief search brought me to its head-quarters. 

 Here it was in the utmost profusion, both ascending the cliff and crawling upon the 

 sand below ; so much so, in fact, that before I came away I secured nearly 500 

 specimens. For more than a week it continued in the utmost profusion, aud even so 

 late as the 3rd of December a specimen settled upon my hand as I was walking along. 



This beetle appears to be longer than most in attaining its mature colouring. 

 Nearly one-third of the specimens that I took were yellow or very pale brown, and 

 some that I kept alive and exposed to the light for five days had altered little at the 

 end of that time. At first I thought that these pale individuals might possibly 

 belong to another species, but I can detect no structural difference, and therefore 

 conclude that they are merely immature H. punctatissimus. 



At the same time I also took eight examples of the pretty little Ceuthorrhyn- 

 chideus frontalis, Bris., which is rather hard to see as it sits motionless upon the cliff 



