1887.) 155 



I conclude these notes by a consideration of tlie materials of 

 whicli the cases are formed. In the New Zealand case, the materials 

 were chiefly fragments of a coralline sea weed, but were evidently 

 not so with those from New South Wales. I therefore submitted 

 some small fragments of these latter to my fi-iend Dr. M. C. Cooke, 

 of the Kew Herbarium, for microscopical examination of cell- 

 structure. He considers the fragments to be those of either Ulva 

 or Enteromorplia ; and he adds that both these genera are as much 

 found in estuaries and far up the course of rivers as in the sea, 

 and that they especially prefer brackish water. Mr. OUiff states 

 emphatically that no fresh-water stream exists where the larvae are 

 found. If admixture of fresh-water be necessary for the larvse of 

 Fhilanisiis, there remains a possibility that land springs, covered at 

 high water, may exist on the beach where the shallow rock-pools 

 occur. On this point I have asked for further information. In any 

 case, the larvae must be covered by the sea during half of their 

 existence. 



Lewishani, London : 



November 5th, 1887. 



Pseudopsis sulcata and Epurcea diffusa in WanoicJcshire. — In August last I 

 captured a single specimen of Pseiidopsis sulcata at the roots of herbage growing 

 on the bank of a small stream at Knowle, and a few evenings later, on visiting a 

 Cossus-infected tree at Solihull I found a few spcciraens of Epurcea diffusa, accom- 

 panied by numerous other sap-loving species, such as Homalota cinnamomea, Hister 

 succicola, and Soronia punctatissima. The Pseiidopsis and EpurcBa are both new 

 to the Birmingham District. — W. G. Blatch, 214, Green Lane, Smalllieath, 

 Birmingham : October Qth, 1887. 



Coleoptera in Sherwood Forest. — During a short yisifc to Sherwood Forest in 

 September, 1885, I found the following species (with many others) under bark : — • 

 Prognatha qvadricornis (very abundant under pine bark), Athous rhombetis (oak), 

 Abrcens fflobosus, Rhizophagits polittts, Scoli/tus destructor, Tomicus laricis. In the 

 following June I captured in the same locality Staphylinits ftdripes (loose bark), 

 Philonthus bipustulattis (bark), Leiodes orbiculattts (fungus), Cossonus linearis (oak 

 bark), Antherophagus nigricornis (elder blossom), Omosita depressa, Hister succicola, 

 and S. merdarius, the last three in dead sheep.- — Id. 



Langelandia anophthalma, Aubd, (^c, in potatoes. — As I hoped, this interesting 

 beetle has again appeared in my potato bed, and I have taken in all some fifty speci- 

 mens, both in the decaying seed and in fragments of rotting wood. I also found two 

 or three pupjB, which were white, semi-translucent, and almost exactly similar in form 

 to the perfect insect. Adelops and Anommatus were in profusion, and I might have 

 taken almost any number of either; seventeen of the latter once from a single potato ! 



