Q I [Septembei-, 



In the Isle of Sheppy, my captures include Oxytelus clypeonitens, Protinus 

 macropterus, Scydmcenvs a /iffulatus und Sparshalll, Corticaria iroUastoni (not Torc), 

 Throsctts ohtusus (in profusion) in moss growing on old ash stumps in alittlc thicket; 

 Phalacrns bi'unnipes, and Coeliodes exiguus (not uncommon) in moss on grassy banks ; 

 Achenium humile, Agathidtmn mayginatum, Monotonia hrevicollis, quadricollia 

 (common), and A-foveolata (one specimen among scores of 31. rufa) in stack-refuse ; 

 Bagous laticollis (abundant), /riY, subcarinatus, and sp.l (near frit ; also taken here, 

 last year, I believe, by the Rev. H. S. Grorham), and more TrogopUcEus foveolatus, 

 in flood refuse on ditch sides ; Bledius trieornis, abundant in a salt marsh, in com- 

 pany with a few B. spectabilis, Dyschirius politus, Heterocerusjlexiiosus,marginatus, 

 and sericans ; Oxypoda Waterhonsil, and Bryaxis Waterhousii, undev stones among 

 tidal refuse; Homalota elegantula (eighteen specimens on May 1st), and Boly- 

 drosus chrysomela, by sweeping on a grassy bank near the shore ; Tacliinus elonga- 

 tulus, one specimen crawling on the pavement in thS sunshine. 



Since my removal to Chatham, early in May, I have taken Bolitoohara bella and 

 lumilata, Oxypoda spectabilis, Homalota hepatica (8), elegantula (l),and scapularis, 

 Mycetoporus brunneus, Quedius scitus, Scydmcenus praterittis, Eye (2), and exilis, 

 Agathidium convexum and seminuliim, Hydnobius strigosus, Anisotoma parvula and 

 nigrita, Colenis dentipes, Colon Zebei and viennense {$), Leptinus testaceus (about 

 30, in the dead leaves and rubbish lying about the entrance of the nest of a Bombus, 

 — I think subterraneus), Meligethes symphyti and brunnicornis, Anther ophagit^s sila- 

 ceus, Atomariaferrughiea, Aphodius arenarius (common) and porcatus, Sal2yingus 

 castaneus (not rare), Tetratoma ancora, Eryx atra (in ash), Mordellistenabrevicanda 

 and Jiumeralis, Trachyphloeus alternans (off Helianthemum) , Metallites marginatus, 

 Liosomus oblongulus, Boh. (2), TycMus lineatulus (abundant on Anthyllis vulnerariaj, 

 Gymnetron labile, rostellum, and melanarium, CeutJiorhynclms frontalis, coclilearice, 

 chrysanthemi, constrictiis, and alliarcB, Rhinoncus denticollis, Choragus Sheppardi^ 

 Tomictis micrograplms, Bruchus seminarius and loti, Phytwcia cylindrica, and Plafy- 

 naspis villosa, by sweeping in wood paths, vxnder fir trees, and on chalky slopes. 

 Early in April, in the same district, I also obtained Aspidophorus orbiciilalus, Coen- 

 opsis Waltoni, Tropidophoriis carinatus, and Mniophila muscortim in moss, the latter 

 in profusion, chiefly affecting the moss on old tree stumps. Quedius brevis, Xantho- 

 linus atratus (common), and many other Myrmecophila occurred in one small nest 

 of Formica rufa. 



At Faversham, on April 22nd, I took StapJiylinus latebricola (1), Scydmcenus 

 elonqaiulus, Tropidophoriis carinatus, Trachyphloeus squamulatus and aristatus. — 

 James J. Walker, 19, Upper Britton Street, New Brompton, near Chatham : 

 June lUh, 1873. 



Note on Camponiscus Healcti, Newman.— In the ' Entomologist,' No. 62, p. 215, 

 1869, Mr. E. Newman described a saw-fly under the name of Camponiscus ITealai. 

 This I have bred, and find to be the Tenthredo luridiventris of Fallen (1808), and 

 •the Nematus (Lepfopus) hypogastricus of Hartig. Thomson (Hym. Scand., i, 78) 

 places it in the genus Leptocercus, which is no doubt its proper position, although 

 the larva has a much closer aiTuiity to some of the typical Nemati than to that genus, 

 and, indeed, the present species forms a connecting link between tlie two. 



Stephens' name Hemichroa (111. Brit. Ent., vii, 55, 1835) has priority over 

 Leptocercus (Ilartig, Die Blattwespen, 228, 1837), and will consequently require 

 to bo adopted. — P. Camkron, Jun., 136, West Graham Street, Glasgow : August 

 11th, 1873. 



