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Tlie pupa is three-eighths of an inch in length, plump, and tapering rapidly near 

 to the anal tip, which ends in a blunt curved spike proceeding from a little flattened 

 knob ; its colour is chestnut brown. — William Buckler, Emsworth : Avgust, 1872. 



Capture of a Scymniis new to the British list. — I was fortamato enough to meet 

 with a Scymniis new to the British list, on the 21-tli of last month, while staying at 

 my brotlicr's house in Leicestershire (Shenton Hall, near Market Bosworth),— 

 namely, the S. arcuatus of Eossi. I brushed it (along with Atomaria peltata, and a few 

 other rather scarce species) from out of a mass of very old ivy, which clothed a wall, 

 and it was so active with its wings that it well nigh eluded my grasp ; but, although 

 I visited the spot every day during the remainder of our sojourn, I could not secure 

 a second example. It being an insect with which I am very familiar in the Atlantic 

 islands (often abounding at Madeira), and one which I had always regarded as 

 somewhat southern in its range, I confess that I was a little surprised to stumble upon 

 it so far to the north as in Leicestershire ; but I imagine that it is distributed, more 

 or less, throughout central Europe likewise. I should have been less taken aback, 

 however, had it been in the Isle of Wiglit, or elsewliere along the soiithem coast, 

 in which it had made its appearance. — T. V. Wollaston, Teignmouth : September 

 10th, 1872. 



Calosoma sycophanta at Fhjmnuth. — A fine specimen of Calosoma sycophanta 

 was taken by a friend of mine. Dr. Harper, last week. Ho saw it flying in Exeter 

 Street, Plymouth, and, on its alighting on a wall, he caught it in liis hand (receiving 

 a nip from the insect), and carried it home in his glove. 



I have heard of no instance of the capture of sycophanta, in Devonshire since 

 Mr. Reading took, far inland, the mutilated specimen, now in my collection ; just 

 ten years since, Jidy, 1862. — J. BROOEIX& EoWE, 16, Lockyer Street, Plymouth : 

 31st August, 1872. 



Note on further British examples of Baridius scolopaceua, Germ. — I have great 

 pleasure in being able to record, that I have at last discovered the head quarters 

 of Baridius scolopaceus in the Isle of Sheppy. Early in August last, I obtained 

 it somewhat freely, by continually sweeping a small piece of salt marsh, close to the 

 shore (and fully three miles from the original locality), the plants therein consisting 

 of Atriplex portulacoides, Suosda mariiima, Salicornia heriacea, and Artemisia mari- 

 tima. I am inclined to think the Atriplex is probably its food-plant here, as most 

 of my specimens were obtained when sweeping that alone. Aster tripoliuin and 

 Arenaria maritima (but no Glaux) grow sparingly in the locality ; but I do not 

 think the insect has any connection with these plants. It may be as well to' note, 

 that Chenopodium maritimum, the plant on which the Baridius was taken abundantly 

 in France, last year, though closely allied to Atriplex, is not a native of Britain. 

 B. scolopaceus seemed to prefer the hot sunshine, the sim probably bringing it up 

 from the wet marsh beneath, as it was much harder to obtain in dull weather. I 

 also noticed that it readily flew about, and copidatcd freely. I have spent a long 

 time searching the roots of the plants in the locality, in hopes of thus detennining, 

 for certain, its food plant ; but not a single specimen could I obtain in this way; 

 the wet ground beneath, or higlicr up where drier, the quantity of tidal refuse, 



