138 [November, 



scutellaris — rather common on alders, Sandown. Ceutliorhynchus reseda — at thei 

 roots of its usual food-plant (Reseda luteola), and Miarus graminis (common), 

 Chalk Downs, Freshwater. -SjJ^wc* are»ar?i2!—Blackgang Chine, beneath its usual 

 food-plant. Cryptocephalus morai, C. bilinettus, &c.— on the Chalk Downs, Bern 

 bridge.— Geo. C. Champion, Caldervale Eoad, Clapham, S.W. : October \Zth, 1887 



Recent captures of Coleoptera at Windsor and Chohham. — Wliilst staying at 

 Egham, in Surrey, during the latter half of last month I took the opportunity of 

 hunting up the Coleoptera of the neighbourhood, confining myself chiefly to Windsor,! 

 and Chobham. Omitting the common species captured, the following is the resulti 

 of my iuTcstigations : — 



In Windsor Great Park. In nests of Formica rufa occurred Thiasophila 

 augulata, Dinarda Mdrkelii, Leptacinus formicetorum, Ptilium myrmecophilum, 

 Dendrophilus pygmaus, Jdonotoma angusticollis. Under bark : Agathidium varian9,\i 

 Eomalota linearis, H. immersa, Placusa pumilio, Cicones variegata (60), Ditoma 

 crenata (153), Plegaderus dissectus (18), Mhizophagtis perforatus (1), PediacttsV 

 dermestoides (1), Silvanus unideiitatus (25), Lcemcphlwus ferrugineus (5), L. diipli- 

 catus (1), MycetopTiagus atomarius (extremely abundant in one beech stump on 

 Stio'w Hill), Asjridiphorus orbiciilatus (l). In fungi: Homalota tiigritula, H. divisa, 

 jff. celata, S. canescens, Cis hispidus, C. nitidus, C. pygmeeus. 



Chobham Common produced the following. In Sphagntim on the margins of 

 ponds: Bemhidium Doris (45), Amara patricia (1, an unsuspected habitat for this 

 species), Acupalpus dorsalis (3), Tachyusa atra (2), Myllana intermedia (20), M,. 

 Kraatzi (5), Oymnusa brevicollis (100), Deinopsis erosa (5), Philonthus nigrita, 

 P. cinerascens, Stentis pusillus, S.hinotatus, S. pallitarsis, S.fornicatxis {2), Ani- 

 sosticta 19-punctata (1 only!), Cassida nobilis (1), Thyamis hoJsatica {V), Anthicut 

 antherinus (1), Paris T-aUmm (1). In the ponds : Pelobius Hermanni (9), Hydro- 

 poms flavipes (3), H. lepidus (extremely abundant), H. obscurus (1), S. lineatus (1), 

 Colymbetes fuscus (2), Agabus affinis (1), Dytiscus circumflexus (2), D . puncttilatut 

 (2), Selochares ptinctatus (1), Philhydrus marginellus (3), Hydrochus angustatus (5). 

 In dung : Homalota inquinula (2), and Trichopteryx bovina. By brushing aquatic 

 plants I took Donacia comari (3). — W. G. Blatch, 214, Green Lane, Smallheath, 

 Birmingham : October 9tk, 1887- 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society ; 

 September 22nd, 1887.— R. Adkin, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Jager exhibited Stilbia anomala. Haw., from Tenby, Callimorpha Hera, L., 

 and Tar. lutescens, Staud., from DeTon, and stated he had obtained ova, and now had 

 the larvae feeding. Mr. Sheldon, Xanthia fulvago, L., and var. Jlavescens, Esp., and 

 remarked on the number of melanic specimens which he had observed in a particular 

 valley in Derbyshire. Mr. Cooper, dark forms of Eugonia quercinaria, Hufn., upon 

 which some interesting comments were made by Mr. Goldthwaite. Mr. Carpenter, 

 a number of specimens of Argynnis Paphia, L., var. Valezina, Esp. Mr. Tutfc, 

 Melanthia bicolorata, Hufn., yar. phimbata. Curt., from Rannoch. Mr. Oldham, 

 Bicycla oo, L., from Epping Foi-est, a dark form of Arctia Caia, L., and a variety 

 of Pararge Megara, L. : it appeared from the remarks of members that D. oo had 

 occurred freely at Epping and in some parts of Kent. Mr. Skinner exhibited a 

 specimen of Deiopeia pulchella, L., taken at Dover, 1886, a bleached specimen of 



