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stout reddisli bristles, and terminated by a single stout dark brown or blackish claw ; 

 the larva appears closely to resemble that of TricJiius, except that the latter has no 

 furrow on the mandible, and the head, epistoma, and labrum are smooth or nearly 

 smooth ; the last segment is divided by a furrow on the dorsal surface only, which 

 distinguishes the larvae of Gnorimus and Trichius from those of the Cetoniina, 

 which have no division. 



Lincoln : July lUh, 1892. 



Eros {Pyropterus) affinis, PayJc., Sfc, in the north of Scotland. — During a 

 recent trip to the north of Scotland I took the opportunity of breaking the journey 

 at Aviemore, where, after a lapse of fifteen years, I spent a week (July 20th — 27th) 

 revisiting my old collecting ground in this neighbourhood. In some of the earlier 

 volumes of this Magazine (xi, pp. 63, 64 ; xiii, pp. Ill, 112 ; xiv, pp. 92, 93) I have 

 given an account of the most noteworthy Coleoptera occurring at Aviemore, and 

 during the present visit I was only able to add one species to my list. This species, 

 Eros {Pyropterus) affinis, Payk., is, however, an important addition, the only re- 

 corded British localities being Killarney and Sherwood ; fourteen specimens of it 

 were obtained from a rotten pine stump. A few of the rarer species already noted 

 by me again occurred, as —Xep^wra sanguinolenta, one $ under pine bark (I captured 

 a ? in the same locality in June, 1876!) ; Abdera triguttata, not rare, as before; 

 Zilora ferrug inea and Xylita laevigata, both very rare now ; Hallomenus humeralis, 

 Homalium CAcruliaJ in/latum, Quedius xanthopus, Scydrnmnus exilis, Lathridius 

 rugosus, very rarely, under pine bark ; Trichius fasciatus, Speyside. At Loch 

 Maree I obtained Zeugophora Turneri in plenty on aspens at the side of the Loch, 

 and Brachonyx indigena (1) on one of the Islands. — Gr. C. Champion, Horsell, 

 Woking : August \st, 1892. 



AnisotomidcB at Woking. — On the evening of July 30th, between 6.15 and 7.15 

 p.m., by repeatedly sweeping in a very restricted grassy spot amongst fir trees in 

 this neighbourhood, I obtained no less than foi-ty-four specimens of Anisotomidce. 

 These speciaiens were apportioned thus : — Triathron MarJceli (3) ; Anisotoma 

 nigrita (1), A. calcarata (1), and A. TriepJcei (39 !). The latter varying exceedingly 

 in size and in the development of the males, a few of them being very large. A. 

 ovalis also occurred to me a little earlier the same evening. It is now seventeen 

 years since I had seen Triarthron alive. — Id. 



Abundance of larvcB of Vanessa cardui in South Devon. — In the neighbourhood 

 of Salcombe, South Devon, during last July there were parts of the coast where it 

 was difficult to find a plant of Carduus arvensis unoccupied by one or more larvae of 

 the above; they also abounded on the common burdock {Arctium lappa), from one 

 plant of which I took fifteen larvae. I also took a few from Carduus lanceolatus and 

 C. tenuiflorus, but was unable to discover any upon Cnicus palustris or upon mallow. 

 The full-grown larvse varied very beautifully in markings ; but not, so far as I could 

 detect, in any way in accordance with their food-plant. Apparently this species 

 does not, like V. Atalanta, pupate among its food-plant, as, although larviB of all 

 sizes were so abundant, I could not find any pupoe among the thistles I was searching. 



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