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my chance of acjain meeting with the insect is but small. Balaninus tessellatus 

 turned up here in some numbers, in company with the commoner species of the genus. 

 I also obtained two specimens of Phloeotrya Stephetisi, from a birch log, and one 

 Tillus elongatus from a spider's web. Towards the end of September I visited my 

 old locality for Aphodius porous at West Wickham, but only succeeded in finding 

 nineteen specimens ; A. ohliteratus was common in the same field. A single specimen 

 of Stenus geniculatus appeared among a host of S. impressits swept from heather, and 

 Ceuthorhynchus alliarice was also found in the sweep-net. Prognatha was rather 

 common under the bark of a felled acacia. A Cosszw-infested horse-chestnut at 

 Streatham produced Homalota kospita in numbers, and from an ash near Belvedere, 

 similarly attacked, I got several TacMnus bipustulatus, Cryptarcha strigata, and the 

 usual common things. — Theodobe Wood, 5, Selwyn Terrace, Upper Norwood, 

 November 23rd, 1883. 



Triplax Lacordairei at Dulwich. — A few months since I recorded the capture 

 of Triplax cenea, among other Coleoptera, in the neighbourhood of Dulwich. Upon 

 more careful examination I find that the insect is the much rarer T. Lacordairei, 

 Crotch, a species principally taken, I believe, at Darenth Wood. I took two examples, 

 one of which was unfortunately broken, from toadstools, the first towards the latter 

 part of July, the other early in August. But for the scarcity of fungi in the district 

 I should doubtless have met with further specimens. — Id. : December 6th, 1883. 



JEgialia rufa, F., at Wallasey. ^Burmg the past season I had the good fortune 

 to take two specimens of this rare beetle, one in May and another in June, on the 

 Wallasey Sandhills, Cheshire. I found them crawling on the bare sand along with 

 JE. arenaria. — E. Wilding, 40, Downing Street, Liverpool : December 12th, 1883. 



Sarpalus quadripunctatus, DeJ8an,from Somersetshire. — In overhauling my 

 Sarpali lately, I made an interesting discovery, viz., that amongst my exponents of 

 H. latus was a specimen of H. quadripunctatus, Dej., which reference to my journal 

 proved to have been captured on the Mendip Hills dm'ing my visit to Somersetshire 

 in April, 1877. Judging from the wide European range of this species, I see no 

 reason why it should not be found in suitable localities throughout England and 

 Wales, as well as Scotland. My specimen proves that it occurs in England, and 

 suggests the probability of its actual existence in collections mixed up (as in my own 

 case) with S. latus. My specimen is also interesting in another way — the usual row 

 of large punctures in the third interstice number /om»* on the left elytron, and three 

 on the right, showing that discrepancies on this point by different authorities are 

 due to inconstancy on the part of the beetle, and not to confusion of species by the 

 " Doctors." — W. Gr. Blatch, 214, Green Lane, Smallheath, Birmingham : December 

 17th, 1883. 



dBbttuarjr. 



Dr. John L. Le Conte. — This distinguished entomologist was the son of Major 

 Lecoute of Philadelphia, himself a writer on entomology, and well known as the 

 correspondent of Dej can and other prominent men in this department of science 



