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May 21st, eyes darkened j 30th, became pei'fect insect; June 2nd, vacated its cell. 

 In both cases the colour was well advanced before the pupal envelope was discarded ; 



ami none of the specimens reared showed more than quite slight traces of imma- 

 turity of colour, nevertheless, they were rather tender to the touch. Many of the 

 larva: pupated amongst the nest debris, the supply of sand being probably too 

 meagre, but all darkened before assuming the perfect state. 



Heterothops nigra, Kr., occurred frequently and I also took two Aleochara spadi- 

 cea, Er., one Sister marginatus, Er., and one C ho leva angustata, F., in the nests, in 

 which I have since obtained six examples of Quedius vexans, Epp. On July 18th 

 1 took a single (slightly damaged) specimen of Quedius riparius, Kelln., on the 

 banks of a stream at Bovey Tracey.— James H. Keys, Morwell, Lipson Road, 

 Plymouth : Julg, 1908. 



Scgmnus pulchellus, Herbst. — Having for a long time been doubtful about the 

 identification of a series of Scgmnus which is recorded as 8. teslaceus, Mots., in the 

 " Irish Naturalist," 1902, p. 63, I referred specimens to Herr Ganglbauer. He was 

 good enough to take the opinion of Herr Winzelmuller, a specialist on the genus, 

 and their verdict is that they are S. pulchellus. The locality where they occurred 

 is Gortconny Bog, near Ballintoy, Co. Antrim. None of my examples have the four 

 distinct spots of the type ; they are either unicolorous, brown-red, or dark, with the 

 two spots on each elytron broadly united. Herr Winzelmuller surmises that the 

 Irish forms may be the var. bilunulatus, Weise, which he only knows by description. 

 — J. K. le B. Tomlin, <l Stoneley," Reading : Julg 17th, 1908. 



Stenophglax alpestris and Hemerobius quadrifasciatus near Sheffield. — On 

 July 4th last I had a day's collecting in an outlying wood ten miles' drive (no rail- 

 way) from Sheffield, in company with Mr. L. S. Brady of Sheffield, and Mr. Corder 

 of Sunderland. I was fortunate enough to take there no less than nine specimens 

 of the rare Stenophglax alpestris, besides missing one or two others. They were 

 mostly beaten out of pines in a wet marshy part of the wood. Its habits seemed 

 curious for a Stenophglax, and indeed, were much more like those of a Limno- 

 philus. Its Trichopterous companions were Plectrocnemia conspersa and Limno- 

 philus hirsutus, but only sparingly. Beating the pines and larches, too, produced 

 Hemerobius quadrifasciatus in abundance, many of them very dark, and indeed, 

 when in the net, lookiug as black as subnebulosus. — Geo. T. Porritt, Elm Lea, 

 l>alton, Huddersfield : Julg 11th, 1908. 



Macaria liturata var. nigrofulvata in Yorkshire. — In the wood near Sheffield 



where I captured the >S'. alpestris, and on the same visit, I took a specimen of 



the variety nigrojulvata of Macaria liturata. This very striking form has of late 



years been taken in some numbers in Delamere Forest, in Cheshire, but scarcely 



anywhere else, and has not previously been recorded from Yorkshire. Curiously, 



it was the only specimen of liturata I saw that day, nor did my companions see 



any so far as I know. The fine slaty melanic form of T'enttsia cambricaria 



occurred not uncommonly to all of us. — Id. 



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