Development of imago in an ichneumoned pnpa.-^lw the March number of tlie 

 [agazine a correspondent mentions a curious instance of the above in the case of 

 Hcranura furcula. A somewhat similar instance may he interesting. Two or 

 iree years ago, having dug a large number of pupse, I broke open those that failed 

 ,) emerge, so as, where possible, to see of what kind they were. In one, which 

 as some species of Tceniocampa, I found that the moth had apparently died, as so 

 [ten happens, when just ready for emergence, but within the body was a parasite 

 iive, also just ready to emerge. I have kept the specimen, and enclose it herewith. 

 -A. r. aEOFiTH, Sandridge, St. Albans : April, 1884. 



[This is a very curious instance of parasitism. The moth, apparently TcBnio- 

 zmpa stabilis, had so far developed, that head, antennae, proboscis, legs, thorax, and 

 i-ings were perfect, but the abdomen was entirely occupied by the pupa of the para- 

 ite,a Tachina, leaving nothing between it and the pupa-skin of the moth except the 

 tin and scales. The fly must have died when the pupa-moth was opened, as it 

 as not spread its wings.— C. Gr. B.] 



Coleoptera at Bromley.— D\xvmg the months of June and July last year I 

 iptured in the evening in this neighbourhood the following Coleoptera, which I 

 link are worth recording. Homalota elegantula, Bris., 1 specimen by the side of 

 wood. H. exilis, Er. ?, 1 specimen in the same locality ; it appears to me to be 

 lentical with exilis in all respects except size, and in this respect it is nearly twice 

 3 large as that species. I sent the specimen to Dr. Sharp for his examination, and 

 e returned it as being, in his opinion, too large for any of the exilis group ; it must, 

 lerefore, wait till further specimens turn up to show if really distinct or only a large 

 )rm of exilis. Deleaster dichrous, Gr., occasionally, flying. Homalmm iopterum, 

 teph., and pygmceum, Pk., one or two specimens. Scydma^nns Sparshalli, Den., 

 y sweeping ; elongatulus, Miill., ditto ; jimetarius, Th., I have found this year com- 

 lonly in a hotbed. Bythhius Curtisi, Leach, and Burrelll, Den., as well as the 

 ommoner bulbifer, Reich., by sweeping. Colon hranneum, Latr., not rare, by 

 weeping. Thalycra sericea, Sturm, one specimen by sweeping, kindly determined 



;. )r me by the Rev. W. W. Fowler ; I had put it aside as a large £^;Mr«a.— Edwabd 



ij lAlTNDEKS, St. Ann's, Mason's Hill, Bromley : May \lth, 1884. 



Trichopteryx brevicornis, Mots., a species new to B r it ai7i.— Arnold g some Tri- 



hopterygidcB sent me by Mr. T. R. Billups, I found a few species of a Trichopteryx 

 i' rhich I at first sight referred to T. atomaria, but as it did not seem quite to agree 



rith that species, I sent specimens to Mr. Matthews, who pronounces it to be T. 



revicornis, Mots., a species new to the British list, and hitherto found only in 

 , Madeira. 



\ It is slightly larger than T. atomaria, from which common species it may be 

 ' ilistinguished by having the margins of the thorax bisinuate, by its longer elytra, 

 '" vhich have a slightly fuscous tinge, and its shorter antennae, which are nigro-piceous ; 

 "■ he sculpture is also somewhat different. Mr. Billups tells me that he captured the 



pecimens at Canning Town, West Ham Marshes, Essex, on November 29th, 1883, 

 , -y shaking the bottom of a stack of radish-seed. The locality is the same which 

 ' >roduced Spercheus a short time ago.— W. W. Fowler, Lincoln : June 9th, 1884. 

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Carabns auratit.<; in London.— I have to record the capture of a specimen of 



