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Further captures of Malachius oulneratus, Ab., in Kent. — Saving had occasion, 

 a day or two ago, to refer to Mr. Q-. K. Waterhouse's Catalogue of British Coleo- 

 ptera (1858), a particular name attracted my attention— p. 57, Malachius, sp. 5, 

 spinosus, Er. ? 



Knowing how very ("ireful my father was, I wondered why he had included 

 that species in his list. 1 looked in Ids collection, and, somewhat to my surprise, 

 found live specimens standing under that name. On the first- is written, " Malachius 

 spinosus, ?, Erichs.," and on the hack of that label, " Kiesenw.," so I presume it. 

 was identified by Kiesenwetter. The insect was captured in Sheppey,on June 29th, 

 1856. The second specimen was taken on the opposite banks of the Med way, near 

 Ilpnor, on May 31st, 1857, and the others in Sheppey on June 2ist, 1858. These 

 are all referable to M. vulneratus, Ab. Rye, it may be observed, also included M. 

 spinosus, in his " British Beetles " (1866, p. 258), and it is difficult to understand 

 why the species has been quietly dropped out of our lists. I have already recorded 

 the capture of .17. vulneratus by Dr. Power in Sheppey, in June, 18of) (Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., xli, p. 'S-'-i). His specimens, as well as those in my father's collection, are all 

 of the female sex — E. A. Wateuhouse, British Museum (Natural History), Crom- 

 well Eoad, S.W. : August llth, 1908. 



Colias edusa,Sfc.,in 1908. — In my visits to the Isle of Sheppey, annually made 

 in August from 1904- onwards, a good look-out has always been kept for Colias 

 edusa. This year, for the first time since 1901 (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xl, p. 256), 

 this erratic butterfly has put in an appearance in some numbers ; the first specimen 

 was observed on July 29th, and a week later it was sufficiently common to admit of a 

 dozen or more being seen in the course of a sunny morning, in the lucerne-fields 

 within a couple of miles of Sheerness. Up to the date of my leaving the Island, 

 August 18th, the number of $ s has been out of all proportion to that of the other sex, 

 only four $ s in all having been seen. The specimens that have been taken are for 

 the most part very fine and in brilliant condition, but in all my long experience with 

 this species, I have never before seen it so restless and so active on the wing ; the 

 difficulty of capture being enhanced by the persistent way in which they were 

 " mobbed " by every butterfly, large or small, which came near them in their 

 flight. I could not hear of any having been observed by the local collectors in the 

 early months of the summer, though a solitary $ was taken on September 9fh last 

 year. C. hyale, which has not been taken in Sheppey since 1902, when it was very 

 common, was not seen at all, and Pyrameis cardui, though present, was much 

 scarcer than I had expected from the immigration of the species in June (ante, 

 p. 157). I obtained one larva of Manduca atropos, about three-quarters grown, on 

 August 5th, and heard of others having been found in the potato-fields.— James J. 

 Walker, Oxford : August, 1908. 



Clunio marinus, Haliday, in Scotland. — On June 27th this year (1908), when 

 collecting marine animals in the rock-pools near Dunbar, Dr. J. II. Ash worth and 

 I had the good fortune to meet with a colony of this curious marine midge. With 

 the exception of one female, all the specimens I secured — about a score — are males 

 They were particularly plentiful on some patches of Laurentia hyhrida, Ceramiunt, 



