256 f^^piii. 



had not been here many clays before they emerged from their dormant condition, 

 when they were at once liberated." 'No information as to the sexes of the Bomhi 

 that arrived alive is given, but hopes as to the general fertility of red clover in the 

 Colony, resulting from this importation, are expressed, and we trust they may be 

 realized. — Eds. 



Anommatus 12-striafus, Miill., and Adelops Wollastoni, Jans. — While digging 

 over a piece of garden ground on the 21st of last month, I turned up a decaying 

 potato, and, seeing that it was tenanted by Coleopterous inhabitants, conveyed it 

 into the house for careful examination. The lodgers proved to be three in number, 

 namely, a specimen of ^?20»zma^M5 12-striatvs, which I had supposed was invariably 

 found in buried logs, and two examples of Adelops Wollastoni. The potato was 

 barely six inches beneath the surface, and it seems rather strange that, after the 

 severe frosts which we have had here, Anommatus at any rate should have been 

 found at so slight a depth. A few days later on I took a third specimen of Adelops, 

 this time in a rotten parsnip. — Theodore Wood, Freeman Lodge, St. Peter's, Kent : 

 March \lth, 1885. 



Note on Rhizotrogus ochraceus, Knock {cf. ante p. 221). — I have a Welsh spe- 

 cimen of this species, taken by the late Mr. Weaver, which I obtained from him 

 directly afterwards. In the "Zoologist," xiii, p. 4906 (1855), is a note by the late I ta 

 Mr. E. Newman, announcing that this species had then recently been taken by Mr. t)i 

 Weaver in K'orth Wales in some abundance, flying by daylight. But no allusion is 

 made to the previous capture by Capt. Parry in South Wales of the species recorded lia 

 in the Trans. Ent. Soc, i, N.S., Proceed., p. 24, as Amphimalla verna, Meg. ?, and th 

 which, according to Mr. Hall, Mr. E. W. Janson has little or no doubt was Hh. I] 

 ochraceus. Assuming this to be correct, the record of Mr. Weaver's captures is of 

 interest, as showing that the habitat extends from North to South Wales ; yet the 

 absence of intimation about the particular place where, and the time of year when, 

 the insects were taken is quite in accordance with Weaver's reticence on such 

 matters. Like Mr. Hall, I am not aware of any recent captures, yet it may now be 

 hoped that although the infoi*mation is not precise, it may be enough to induce 

 residents and tourists in Wales to be on the look-out for these beetles, and to adopt 



"the simple plan. 

 That they must take who have the power. 

 And they must keep who can ;" 



tliat is, keep the captives they may make for those to whom they are desiderata — in 

 other words, all the present generation of collectors of British Coleoptera. T)ie 

 distinctive characters of Eh. ochraceus were pointed out in Mr. Newman's note, yet 

 it may be useful and sufficient to state here that the species, although generally like 

 the common Bh. solstitialis (Midsummer Chafer), is about one-fourth less, and, 

 unlike it, flies by daylight. — J. W. Douglas, 8, Beaufort Gardens, Lewisham : 

 March 2nd, 1885. 



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Note on Hypothenemus eruditus, Westto. — This very peculiar little insect, which 

 occurred some fifty years ago in some numbers in the cover of an old book, is sup- 



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