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posed by many Entomologists to be peculiar to Britain, and to have only been found 

 on this one occasion. M. Fauvel, however, in the " Kevue d'Entomologie," iii, p. 315, 

 proves the identity of the species with Stephanoderes CBostn'chusJ arececs, Hor- 

 nung, from Gruinea and Colombia, and also with S. Boieldieiii, from New Caledonia ; 

 he considers, also, that Bostrichus rujicollis, Fabr., which is given in the last 

 European catalogue as undoubtedly synonymous with H. eruditus, is certainly not 

 identical with it. The European Stephanoderes JShlersii, Eich. {HomoeocrypTialuSy 

 Lindemann), according to M. Fauvel, is a veritable Hypothenemus, and must there- 

 fore be united with R. eruditus as a second species of the genus. — W. W. Fowler, 

 Lincoln : March 10th, 1885. 



Boreus hj/emalis, Linn., near Killin. — On the 23rd of October last, while 

 searching a moss-covered wall in Grlen Lochay, I took five specimens of an insect 

 which at the time I could not identify ; they were left in the test tube until the 

 other day, when it occurred to me that I should again examine them, but through 

 having been neglected for such a length of time, they were in a very mouldy con- 

 dition. The specimens turned out to be three <? and two ? of the above species, 

 agreeing perfectly with McLachlan's description in his Monograph of the British 

 Neuroptera-Planipennia. I noticed that some of the specimens jumped upwards of 

 an inch. My friend, Mr. W. R. Baxter, who was seai-ching for spidei's along the 

 same wall, also called my attention to its saltatorial habits. No doubt I could have 

 taken many more of the insect, had I recognised it at the time, as a number escaped 

 by either jumping, or dropping into the grass at the foot of the wall. 



In the January number of the " Scottish Naturalist," Professor Trail records 

 having captured in the beginning of November two S S'^d one ? near Aberdeen ; 

 this is the only record of its occurrence in Scotland that I am aware of. — James J. 

 King, 207, Sauchiehall Street, Grlasgow : March, 1885. 



P.S. — Since writing the above, I have learned that Mr. James Hardy has taken 

 Boreus hyemalis in Berwickshire, as far back as 1849. — J. J. K. 



Occurrence of Hydroptila longispina, McLach., in Scotland. — I have in my 

 collection specimens of this species from Loch Goilhead, Fortingal, and Loch Awe ; 

 at the latter locality the species was taken in fair numbers during July of last year. 

 In examining a long series, I find that the long sjjine-like processes vary to a 

 considerable extent in the amount of exsertion, in some of the specimens approaching 

 H.femoralis, but even in these extreme cases the two species could not be well 

 confused. — Id. 



Neuroptera-Planipennia in Worcestershire. — The following species have occurred 

 to me here within a ten mile radius. Banorpa communis, common ; germanica, 

 rather common. Coniopteryx aleyrodiformis, not common ; tineiformis, common ; 

 psociformis, local. Chrysopa perla, common ; phyllochroma, not common ; ventralis, 

 rather common ; aspersa, one specimen ; tenella, one specimen, which was bred in 

 June, from a spruce-fir cone collected on the Christmas day — the larva had, I pre- 

 sume, spun up under one of the bracts ; septempunctata, very common, especially 

 in gardens ; vulgaris, not common ; Havifrons, rather common ; alha, common ; 

 vittata, not common ; flava, not common : light strongly attracts most of these 



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