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attenuated character of the front segments of the larvse was absent in my individuals. 

 As bearing upon Mr. Porritt's observations, you may perhaps consider these remarks 

 worth publishing in the Magazine. — J. C. Miller, Langley Road, Elmer's End, 

 Beckenham, S.E. : October 1st, 1892. 



Pterophorus Lienigianus in North Kent and South Devon. — As there are so very 

 few published captures of this reputed local species, it will perhaps be of interest to 

 place on record my taking a single specimen on September 19th, 1886, flying at dusk 

 in our garden here, and a second in September, 1888, by beating hedgerows in the 

 lane leading from Teignmouth to Haldon. This month the larvee have not been at 

 all uncommon in this district, but are confined to extremely restricted spots, having 

 only been observed at four places in a radius of several miles, although their food- 

 plant, Artemisia vulgaris, is abundant in many of our hedge banks, disused gravel 

 pits, &c. An admirable account of the habits of the larvfs will be found in Vol. viii, 

 p. 156, of this Magazine. — B. A. Bowee, Lee : October l^th, 1892. 



Eros {Platycis) minutus, F., in Gloucestershire. — I have to record the capture 

 of a series of Eros {Platycis) minutus in Splatts' Wood, GTloucestershire. I took a 

 small series on September 3rd, 1892, in an old stump of ash ; most of them were 

 found in the frass in the burrows of Sinodendron cylindricum which were on the 

 stump ; the <J and ? were also in cop. on the above date. On August 14th I found 

 a magnificent specimen of Acanthocinus cedilis, (^ , in Bagley Wood, Oxford, on a 

 fallen log of wood ; I caught it as it was in the act of flying ; as I have not been to 

 the locality since,! have not found another. I kept it alive for nearly a month by 

 feeding it upon sugar and ripe fruits I have to record another ants' nest beetle, 

 viz., Cetonia aurata ; I found two cocoons in a nest of the wood-ant, and, on opening 

 one, I found a specimen of Cetonia aurata in a perfect condition. The ants' nest 

 was found on Shotover Hill, near Oxford. — John W. Shipp, University Museum, 

 Oxford : September, 1892. 



[In the list of myrmecophilous beetles given by Mr. E. W. Janson in the 

 Entomologist's Annual for 1857, the larva of Cetonia aurata is mentioned as having 

 occurred in nests of Formica rufa ; the perfect insects have also been found on 

 several occasions ; I have not, however, seen a record of the discovery of the cocoon 

 in the nests.— W. W. F.]. 



Adelops Wollastoni, Jans., at Broadstairs. — While staying at Broadstairs last 

 July I found a single specimen of this beetle in a decaying stump, about a mile 

 from the spot where I formerly met with it in such abundance. It seems to be 

 generally distributed in the neighbourhood, as I have now met with it in three 

 localities. Probably it would be taken much more generally if looked for in the 

 right situations, i. e., in decaying seed potatoes underground. — Theodore Wood, 

 Baldock, Herts. : October Uh, 1892. 



Coleoptera near Wellington College in July. — Sweeping about 9 p.m. I took 

 OdonfcBus mobilicornis, S , but whether from nettles, grass or birch I cannot tell, as 

 it was too dark to examine my net before reaching home. Two specimens of the 



