250 



[October, 



known, Elenchus will be found to be less rare than hitherto supposed, 

 and the discovery of the (at present unknown) $ would be of great 

 interest. 



The Eev. A. E. Eaton also captured this rarity within a day or 

 two of the capture of mine, and is sending an excellent description 

 and figures of his specimen, so that I need not enter into any details 

 as to structure, &c. 



St. Ann's, Woking : 



September llth, 1892. 



NOTES ON ELENCHUS TENUICORNIS, KBY., WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. 

 BY THE BEV. A. E. EATON, M.A., F.E.S. 



On August 22nd, shortly after 4 o'clock in the afternoon, a ^ 

 Elenchus tenuicornis was casually swept by the net off young hazel 

 shoots in a shady part of a lane at Stoney Stoke, a hamlet in the 

 parish of Shepton Montague, near Bruton, Somerset. It was passed 

 at once into the killing bottle, and mounted dry in a paper cell that 

 evening as a microscopic object. 



After comparing the specimen with the figures and descriptions 

 of Elenchus given in Westwood, Introd. Mod. Classif. Ins., ii, 288, &c., 

 fig. 94, 1 — 6, S. S. Saunders, Stylopid. Monogr., in Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond. (1872), p. 31, &c., and Fowler, Coleopt. Brit. IsL, v, 457, it has 

 seemed desirable that advantage should be taken of the opportunity 



