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I must now bring my notes to an end with a few odd mems. from my diary. 



From Bearsted, I have Ste^ius palustris, and from Enfield, Cryptarcha imperialis, 

 Phlceophilus and Ptinus suhpilosus. At Southend, Myrmedonia Haworthi gladdened 

 my eyea ; but of two taken, one, alas ! alone reached liome, the other being entombed 

 in glass somewhere near rrittlewell Church (where I lost my bottle). — H. S. GrOEHAM, 

 Euspcr, Ilorsliam : August l-Uh, 1872. 



Strange habitat of Licinus silphoides. — This Bos-Hill species is now in great 

 profusion on the beach near Ilythe. — Gr. Lewis, West Terrace, Folkestone : 3rd 

 September, 1872. 



Saltatory power of Rhinoncus suhfasciatus. — Wlien sweeping by the side of a 

 ditch at Boguor, where Rhinoncus subfasciatus was tolerably abundant, I was not a 

 little surprised to see an individual of that species jump. At first I naturally 

 thought it must be some mistake ou my part ; but, on sweeping again, catching 

 more, and lifting up the bottom of the net carefully, I found I was not deceived, as 

 several specimens jumped, and many times when collecting where this species was 

 abundant, I witnessed this curious fact. 



The leap is but a short one, varying from about half an inch to one and a-half 

 inches, and appeared to be effected by a sudden retraction of all the legs. 



Any person who has seen this insect alive, and noticed its quick and sudden 

 movements, wiU not be surprised that the sudden shutting up of its legs should throw 

 the insect up into the air ; at any rate, this seemed to me the way in which the leap 

 was effected, the feat being, possibly, performed more by accident than design. — 

 Edwaed a. Wateehouse, British Museum, "W.C. : September 6th, 1872. 



Unusual abundance ofNiptus hololeucus.- — This insect so abounds in the house 

 of my Vicar, the Rev. J. W. Sheringham, of Staudish, Grloucester, as to be a perfect 

 nuisance. The family thought it to be a spider, and accuse it of eating flannel, 

 cloth, &c. They tell me they have swept it from the floors in hundreds, and cannot 

 get rid of it, though they have somewhat thinned its mmibers by the use of carbolic 

 acid soap. Although one of the Ptinida;, its build evidently shews it to bo no 

 wood-borer ; still, occurring in such profusion, it may really be of harm to such 

 material as that above mentioned. It seems to follow man, never occurring, so far 

 as I know, in open country. — Alex. Nash, The Glebe House, Hardwicke, Glou- 

 cester : September, 1872. 



Captures at Weybridge. — On the occasion of the excursion of the Entomological 

 Club on the 29th June last, among many other insects not deserving special notice, 

 I captured Ceuthorhynchideus pwniUo on Tcesdalia midicaulis ; Sybines potentillcB 

 under Spergula arvensis ; Dictyonota Fieberi, larvaj on broom bushes: all found 

 under the guidance of Dr. Power to their exact localities. Cardiostethus testaceiis, 

 by sweeping long grass ; Butalis cicadella, one, from a furze bush. — J. W. Douglas, 

 Lee : 5th August, 1872. 



Note on Agrothereutes Hopei, Or. — -Every observation tending towards the dis- 

 covery of the dissimilar sexes of the smaller Cryptida: deserves careful atlontiou, as 



