GO (August, 



Note on Ih/hius (Btipscens, Thorns. — Like my friend, Mr. E. C. Rye (Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., ix, p. 36), I am inclined to refer my supposed specimens of J. angtistior to this 

 species. I have examples from the south of Scotland, the Cheviot district. East 

 Cumberland, and from the south of England. All have the antennae totally red, and 

 are evidently of one species ; but in no instance do I detect Hcrr Thomson's sexual 

 chararcter of " Mas. : pedum intermediorum unguicwlo postico basi subtus sinuate " 

 (Opusc. p. 125). — Thos. Jno. Bold, Long Benton, Nevrcastle-on-Tyne : July, 1872. 



Note on Ocypus morio, Auct. — I have long had in my collection one of those 

 small specimens of Ocypus morio mentioned"by Mr. Eye on the above page, and 

 which was taken near Hartlepool, Co. Durham, in October. Placed alongside of 

 ordinary morio, of equal size, the difference in appearance is so gi-eat that it is very 

 difficult to believe them to be of one species ; but, having only one example of the 

 smaller race, I will content myself with pointing out how it differs from the typical 

 form. Agreeing generally with the characters pointed out by Mr. Eye, this indi- 

 vidual has its head nearly quadrate, the greatest width being behind (not nearly 

 orbiculate, with the greatest width immediately behind the eyes, as in morio) ; the 

 eye is much larger in proportion to the size of the head, and more upright ; the 

 elytra are proportionately larger, browner in colom*, with the apices less oblique 

 and more rounded ; the abdomen has its intermediate segments less dilated, whilst 

 the legs are more sparingly covered with pubescence, with the tibiae much less 

 strongly spinose. — Id. 



The sound produced hy Pelohius Hermanni. — On this subject, a friend writes as 

 follows : — " Of the beetles, popularly known as ' screech-beetles,' I have several in 

 " my aqxiarium, which contains more than 20 gallons of water, and I have heard the 

 " peculiar noise from which the name is derived emitted when two beetles were 

 " quarrelling for a piece of worm. I think the noise came from two at the bottom, 

 " but as several couples were quarrelling at the time, it might have proceeded from a 

 " couple nearer the top." — J. W. Douglas, Lee : \Wi June, 1872. 



Wofe on the ovvposition of Chrysopa. — A fortnight ago, at nine o'clock in the 

 evening, I saw a Chrysopa leave a broom tree in the garden here. After captiiring 

 and examining it to make sure of the genus, I gave it back its liberty, but thought 

 it strange at the time that Chrysopa was to be seen on the wing so late. 



Yesterday, while examining the same tree again, I found several of the 

 branches thickly covered with hosts of mostly apterous slate-coloured Aphidce. 

 Between them, I noticed the well known eggs on long stalks of a Chrysopa, and it 

 strikes me now that I must have interrupted the $ insect while depositing her eggs- 

 In most cases, the pedunculate eggs were fixed by minute, white, fiat discs to the 

 stem of the plant, as could be ascertained by gently pulling them off ; biit, 

 finding some of the eggs moving rather suspiciously, I examined their j)osition 

 closely, when it appeared that several were fixed by their basis to the backs of fidl- 

 grown Axihidcc. 



I have now two such creatures walking about before me, each carrying the 

 peduncidatcd egg of its enemy. In the eggs fixed to the stem of the broom the 

 stalks are of uniform thickness, and quite white ; but, in the case of those fixed to the 



