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Carahus auratus in a garden at Pentonville, London. N. I have shown the specimen 

 to Mr. H. W. Bates and Mr. E. C. Eje, who suggest that it may have been intro- 

 duced through the transport of vegetable substances from the continent ; but I have 

 since made enquiries, and find the nearest market garden is at least half-a-mile off. 

 — H. W. Simpson, 2, Robert's Place, Bowling Green Lane, E.G. : May 2Uh, 1884. 

 [Our correspondent wrongly interprets the purport of the suggestion. Ther 

 is no necessity for a " market garden." A French lettuce bought at the nearea 

 greengi'ocer's shop would be suiEcient. One London locality for this insect is ihi 

 Borough Market. — Eds.]. 



Apion poynoncB and Folt/driisus nndatus in cop. — The note by Mr. Douglas, a 

 p. 19, reminds me that I saw, beaten out by a friend, at Laughton Woods, nea 

 Lewes, on May 16th, a male Apion pomonce in cop. with a female I'oli/drusus undatu 

 The insects remained in conjunction for more than four hours after their capture. 

 J. H. A. Jenner, 4, East Street, Lewes : June USth, 1884. 



Claviger foveolatus at Lewes. — This insect occurs sparingly in the nests 

 Lasius Jlavus under stones on the Downs near Lewes, only some half-dozen bein 

 usually procurable from any one nest. I was, therefore, much surprised last Ma 

 on turning over a stone, to see these insects congregated in niasses. The nest was 

 small one, and the Claviger quite outnumbered the ants. I captured fully th: 

 specimens, while numbers escaped. — Id. 



Hihernation of Cetonia aivrata. — In wading through previous volumes of tl 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., I find a notice in the number for January, 1874, by Mr. John Scot 

 recording the capture of a specimen of this species flying on the 15th October, 187^ 

 with a question as to what could have caused such untimely flight. From this questio 

 I take it that it is not generally known that Cetonia aurata lives in hibernatio 

 through the winter, in proof of which I received during last month a specime 

 (alive), which had been captured in the thatch of an old house at Helmsley, near 

 Leeds.— John W. Ellis, 101, Everton Road, Liverpool : May 26th, 1884. 



[There can be little doubt that Cetonia aurata assumes the perfect state in the 

 autumn, but ordinarily does not leave the cocoon until the following year. Occa- 

 sionally, however, certain individuals come out in the autumn (especially in " bursts " 

 of hot weather), and finding themselves overtaken by cold weather, either die, or 

 seek convenient places for hibernation, cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., xi, p. 208. — Eds.]. 



Teredus nit id us, F., RhyncoJus gracilis, Rosen., cfr., in SJierioood Forest. — The 

 re-occurrence of Teredus nitidus in its original locality (Sherwood Forest), after 

 lying perdu for so many years, seems sufiiciently interesting to deserve record. J 



As the result of very hard work during a ten days' visit in last month (May|| 

 13th to 23rd), I managed to secure eight specimens of this rare beetle, all of them 

 under bark of oak stumps, and in every case associated with Dryoccetes villosus. 

 Whether or not any relationship exists between these two species I am unable to say 

 from my own observation. I searched for larvce of Teredus in the runs of Dryoccntes, 

 but saw nothing except those of the latter beetle. All my specimens of the fully 

 developed insect were taken from between the bark and the wood, their position 

 being exactly that of a Rhizophagns. 



