40 [-^"ly. 



Re-appearance of PhosphcBnus hemipterus, Oeoff., at Leioes. — This curious in- 

 sect has again occurred at Lewes. My friend, Mr. Cecil Morris, of this town, has 

 taken several specimens m his garden, and, by his kindness, I have been able to see 

 the insect in a living state. The locality is not far from the place where Miss Hop- 

 ley took the first British specimens in 1868. The first specimens were seen this 

 year on the 17th inst., and, so far, only males have been taken. The males are 

 decidedly luminous, the light issuing from two spots on the apical segment of the 

 abdomen both above and below. As in the glowworm, the light is produced at the 

 ■will of the insect, and when not visible, a little irritation will generally render it so ; 

 this fact would make it probable that the light, at least in the male, is not used as a 

 sexual atti'action, but as a means oi frightening its enemies, and warding off danger ; 

 perhaps it is the same in all luminous insects. The insect is very active by day, 

 crawling vigorously over walls, &c., but it readily feigns death, contracting the limbs 

 close to the body and falling to the ground. — J. H. A. Jenner, 4, East Street, 

 Lewes : June 20th, 1883. 



Lehia turcica. — T am informed that specimens of this species (I believe four in 

 number) are being exhibited in London as having been purchased, with other 

 Oeodephaga, from Mr. C. S. Gregson, of Liverpool. In the interests of my Coleo- 

 pterist brethren, will you permit to state, that I know Mr. Grregson's collection very 

 well indeed, and that there was not a specimen of Lehia turcica, either British or 

 foreign, in that collection. — John W. Ellis, 101, Everton Eoad, Liverpool: May, 

 1883. 



Cicindela maritima in Carmarthensire. — On May 24th, 1883, four specimens of 

 Cicindela maritima were taken by the Rev. Clennell Wilkinson on the Sandhills 

 near Penshire, in Carmarthenshire. I think this is a new locality for this beautiful 

 and very local insect. — A. H. Weatislaw, Manorbere Vicarage, Pembrokeshire : 

 June, 1883. 



Myrmecophilous Coleoptera in the Hastings district, — I have been working 

 nests of Formica rufa, all situated in a wood at Guestling during the spring and 

 early summer, and thought that my captures might be worth recording, especially 

 as the nests are not so very far from the sea. In the beginning of April, Thiaso- 

 phila angulata was by far the most plentiful insect, just now, however, Homalota 

 flavipes is the' commonest. In addition to these I have found Dinarda MarJceli, 

 Jlomalota anceps, Oxypoda heemorrhoa, in some numbers, and O. formiceticola, 

 Monotoma angusticoUis, Gryll., M. formicetorum, Th., Leptacinus formicetorum, and 

 Quedius brevis, sparingly, and a single example of Myrmedonia humeralis. I also 

 met with a few specimens of a Xantholinus, which I think may be atratus, Heer. 

 I was pleased to find Clythra ^--punctata in plenty : they were either flying in the 

 sunshine around the nests, or sitting on the bushes overhanging them.. On several 

 occasions I have seen specimens crawling about with the ants, and once a ? emer- 

 ging from the entrance to the subterranean cells. Between the 15th May and 12th 

 June, I caught about sixty examples, and saw many others. Formica fuliginosa is, 

 I am sorry to say, rare with us ; but from a weak nest I obtained four Myrmedonia 



