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thrive, supposing tlie winters to be not too bleak for it. I have seen much of the wild 

 plant in the course of my alpine wanderings, but nowhere in such masses as in this 

 West of England locality.— R. McLaciilan, Lewisham : November 1st, 1892. 



Is Tipida dispar, Hal., identical loith T. pagana, Meig. 1. — I think not, as I 

 can see the following points of difference : — 



TlPULA DISPAR. TiPULA PAGANA. 



Abdomen longer and redder. Abdomen shorter and browner. 



Wings a trifle broader. Wings a trifle narrower. 



Female with very short wings. Female with full-sized wings. 



Does not occur before the middle of Oc- Occurs during September and. the be- 



tober, and goes on till November, and ginning of October on Dartmoor. 



is common everywhere. 

 — C. W. Dale, Glanvilles Wootton : Octoher \1th, 1892. 



Capture of Amalopis straminea and occulta in Devon. — I met with these rare 

 TipulidcB at ITorrabridge, on October 1st, inclusive of a female of the latter. — Id. 



Psallus alhicinctns, Khm. — I described this species in the October number of 

 this Magazine from the female specimen which I took at Chobham, but I find that 

 I was not the first captor of it in this country. In 1890 Mr. W. Chancy sent me 

 among other insects to name a small dark Psallus that puzzled me, and I returned 

 it to him as alhicinctns ?. Unfortunately, although I remembered the specimen, I 

 forgot the name of the sender, and it was not until I received some specimens the 

 other day from Mr. Chancy that it occurred to me that it was he who had sent it to 

 me. I at once wrote to him for the specimen, and find it is a very dark ? albicinctus. 

 He tells me it was taken off oak in company with the commoner species, varians 

 and variabilis. It is an unusually dark variety, very densely clothed with black 

 hairs. — Edward Saunders, St. Ann's, Wokin ; : November, 1892. 



Note on Cetoniajioricola, Herhst.— V^iih reference to Canon Fowler's note on 

 Cetonia aurata in the last number of this Magazine, it may be of interest to mention 

 that last year, when collecting at Eannoch, I found eight or nine pupae of Cetonia 

 fioricola in the nests of Formica rufa, and this spring several specimens of this 

 beetle emerged from them. There were also a number of the larvje in the nests, 

 which, on being exposed to the air, were at once seized by the ants, who tried to 

 tear them to pieces, and I had some difiiculty in securing any uninjured specimens, 

 — R. W. Lloyd, St. Cuthberts, Thurleigh Road, Balham : November 1st, 1892. 



Coleoptera at Ardara, Co. Donegal. — Ardara lies in the south-west of Donegal, 

 and almost at the base of the promontory of Loughris. On either side of the pro- 

 montory are tidal estuaries, each about six miles in length, and at the end of the 

 northern one is Ardara. At the mouths of the estuaries are extensive sandhills, 

 which were very good hunting grounds, but too far off to be availed of often. 

 Inland are mountains covered with heather and bogs to their summits. Numerous 

 streams ran down from these mountains, and there were several lakes in the neigh- 



