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9 . The eighth abdominal segment has no bristles above the stigma. The 



bristles situated at and near the apical and ventral edge* are very numerous, 



there being also about eighteen bristles on the lateral surface. The eighth sternite 



is elongate-triangular and without any bristles. The tenth tergite is sinuate at 



the apex distally to the insertion of the stylet. The dorsal portion of this tergite 



bears numerous rather strong bristles between the stylet and the sensory plate 



(" pygidiuin "). The stylet is slender, being about five times as long as it is broad 



near its base. It bears a long apical bristle and one or two small ones further basad. 



The tenth sternite, in side-view, is subtriangular, bearing ten bristles at the edge 



and one on the lateral surface near the apex. 



Length = (J 2*1 mm. ; ? 3 mm. 



We have a small series of this remarkable species bred by- 

 Mr. Norman II. Joy (in whose honour the insect is named) in July 

 of this year from the nest of a Puffin (Fratercula arctica) taken in 

 the Scilly Islands. 



Tring Park, Tring : 



September, 1908. 



Note on the Coleoptera found in the nests made by Bombycid larvse. — It is 

 perhaps worth while calling attention to the fact that two species of Coleoptera are 

 found on the Continent in the nests made by the gregarious larvse of the pine pro- 

 cessionary-moth, Thaumatopcea (CnethoeampaJ pityocampa. These are Dermestes 

 aurichalceus, Kiist., which feeds upon the cast larval skins, and Micrambe perrisi, 

 Bris., which lives in the larval excrement.* Dr. Chapman and I have taken the 

 Dermestes in this way, in abundance, at Tragacete and Albarracin, Spain (cf. Tran6. 

 Ent. Soc. Lond., 1902; pp. 118, 123), but we did not meet with the Micrambe, 

 possibly owing to an excusable timidity in handling the nests of the insect in 

 question. At, least two British Bombycids — Malacosoma neustria and Eriogaster 

 lanestris — make somewhat similar nests to those of Cnethocampa, and it is possible 

 that they may also be found to contain beetles. Perhaps some of our Lepidopterists 

 will examine such nests when opportunity offers ? I am indebted to M. Henri du 

 Buysson, of Brout-Vernet, for calling my attention to this habit of the Micrambe. 

 This well-known French savant also informs me that Sister helluo, Truqui (a species 

 not unlike our R. marginatus, Er.), chases and devours the larvae of Agelastica 

 alni, L., upon the leaves of alder, and that Agnathus decoratus, Germ, (a rare 

 European Lagriid), lives upon the larva? of Rhizophagus politus, Hellw., R. 

 cceruleus, Waltl, and Xyleborus p/eifi, Ratz., under the bark of alders that have 

 fallen into the water.— G. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking: August 31st, 1908. 



Anaspis gameysi, Fowl., Src, bred, from the New Forest. — About a year ago 

 I brought home from the New Forest a small quantity of dry wood-mould, taken 

 from a hole in an old oak, mainly in the hope of finding Scraptia fuscula, and from 



* Homalota patustria, Kies., has been found in numbers in my garden in the excrement of 

 various Lepidopterous larvse. 



