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Chrysis neglecta over two years in the larval and pupal stages. — In September, 

 1880, Dr. Chapman very kindly sent me nests of Odynerus spinipes with its parasites, 

 Chrysis hidentata and neglecta ; the first two came out the following summer, but 

 -neglecta did not appear until June 24th, 1892. In March I opened one of the 

 cocoons, and saw the larva was still alive but much contracted ; I then gave the 

 sand, in which were the cocoons, a good watering, and left the flower pot with its 

 contents exposed to the weather. At the beginning of June I removed them indoors 

 and exposed them to the sun ; with the result of this treatment I have bi-ed three- 

 — G-. C. BiGNELL, Stonehouse, Plymouth : June 2,1th, 1892. 



Pelohius tardus, Herhst, in Yorkshire. — In my " Coleoptera of the British 

 Islands," vol. i, p. 159, 1 have recorded this insect as being " doubtful as a Yorkshire 

 species ;" I have, however, just received a specimen from Mr. Walter F. Baker, of 

 Hull, who informs me that the species is fairly common in the Wayrant ponds near 

 Withernsea. This is, apparently, the most northern authenticated record for this 

 insect ; it has once been recorded by Mr. Hewitson from near Newcastle-on-Tyne, 

 but Mr. Bold, in his Catalogue, expressly comments on this record as probably 

 erroneous, and it has never since been met with in the locality. My friend, the late 

 Mr. Garneys, recorded the species as once taken at Twyford, near Repton, Burton- 

 on-Trent, but I never found it in that district, and it must have been very rare. I 

 have never heard of its occurrence in Lincolnshire ; but if it is common at 

 Withernsea, it will probably be found on this side of the Humber, if worked for. — 

 W. W. Fowler, Lincoln : July Wth, 1892. 



Harpalus obscurus, F., cf'c., at Swaffham Prior, Cambridge.— In vol. i (second 

 series) of this Magazine, p. 83, Mr. H. R. Tottenham recorded the capture of three 

 specimens of this exceedingly scarce species. On June 24th last I was staying with 

 Dr. Sharp at Cambridge, and found that he and Mr. Tottenham had obtained a few 

 more specimens, for the most part immature ; as we had two or three hours to spare 

 on the afternoon of June 25th, Dr. Sharp proposed that we should go and look for 

 the beetle, which we accordingly did, and were fortunate enough to take a good 

 series in excellent condition. In a note appended to Mr. Tottenham's record above 

 referred to, I have mentioned the fact that Dr. Power told me the species had been 

 distributed in old days as H. sabtdicola, which we also took in the same locality, in 

 company with H. obscurus ; but in life it is very different, and may much more 

 readily be mistaken at first sight for H. rujicornis, in fact, we were several times 

 deceived by the latter insect. Besides these two species Dr. Sharp took a single 

 male example of H. tenebrosus, and I found one H. azureus ; H. brevicollis {rufi- 

 barbis, Brit. Cat.) and H. rectangulus (puncticollis, Brit. Cat.) were common, as also 

 was Olisthopus, and among other beetles taken may be mentioned Badister hume- 

 ralis, Amara bifrons, and Cryptocephalus morcei. 



A few days previously Dr. Sharp had been to Monk's Wood to look for Osphya 

 bipunctata, having been induced to do so by the fact that last year Mr. W. Bateson 

 found a specimen close to Cambridge ; the weather proved very unfavourable, but 

 in the very short time during which he was able to work he found two specimens of 

 Osphya, besides Molorchus umbellafarum and other things, which show that the 

 Wood will well repay working.— Id. : July I2th, 1892. 



