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large 3rd submarginal cell, which is almost quarlrate, whereas in our other red-bodied 

 species, with the exception of spissus, it is subtriangular ; in the specimen in 

 question the dividing nervure between the 2nd and 3rd subnmrginals is absent in 

 both wings, so as to leave a large transverse cell, which is almost as long as the 

 marginal cell, and of which the upper margin is about two-thirds as long as the 

 lower. The shape of the cell at once distinguishes it from Evagethes, with which it 

 might otherwise be confounded, so far as neuration goes, as in this latter the 2nd 

 submarginal is subtriangular. Cases of abnormal neuration, symmetrical on both 

 sides, are rare amongst the Aculeata, but they show how unwise it is to form genera 

 on neurational characters only.— Id. 



Coleoptera in 1894. — I found 1894, in spite of the wet summer, a very good 

 year for Coleoptera, and I added over two hundred specimens to my collection ; 

 some of the best species were :— 



Hastings and neighbourhood, in April — Hydroporus ferrugineus, Dermestes 

 undulatus, Heterocerus sericans, Bagous collignensis, Bledius unicornis, Lirnnichus 

 pygmceus, Sitones Waterhousei, and Achenium depressum. 



New Forest, in May — Qrammoptera analis and ustulata, Elater pomonce, and 

 Tachinus elongatus. 



Guestling Wood, in May^TycJiius 5-puncta(us, Pogonochcerus bidentatus, and 

 Rhynchites betuleti. 



Dorking, in May — Oxypoda spectahilis. 



Sevenoaks, in June — Telephorus translucidus. 



Deal, in June — Saprinus metallicus and Psammohius sulcicollis. 



Isle of Wight, in July and August — Cicindela germanica, Hoplia philanthus, 

 Dromius vectensis, Heterocerus fusculus, Harpalus discoideus and tenebrosus, 

 Zabrus gihbus, Ocypus pedator, Tachyporus formosus, Necrophorus mterruptus, 

 Licinus silphoides, Badister unipiistulatus, and Sitones cambricus. 



Near Walton, in October — Necrophorus vestigator and Tachinus scapularis. 



Hastings, in December — Tropiphorus carinatus. 



Wherever I have been during the year I have worked ants' nests, and have been 

 rather successful with the niyrmecophilous Coleoptera, having taken the following : — 

 Oxypoda formiceticola, Thiasophila angulata, JDinarda Mdrkeli, Atemeles emargi- 

 natus, and Myrmedonia humeralis, with F. rufa. Drusilla canaliculata with F. 

 fiavia. Notothecta flavipes, Quedius brevis, Leptacinus formicetorum, and Othius 

 myrmecophilus, with F. rufa. Staphylinus stercorarius and Claviger foveolatus with 

 F. flava. Coccinella distincta, Monotonia conicicolUs and formicetorum, and Den- 

 drophilus punctatus, vrith F. rufa. Five specimens of C/aDJ</er I took in company 

 with a little black ant. — Horace Donisthokpe, 73, West Cromwell Road, South 

 Kensington : February 25tk, 1895. 



Food adaptability in the genus Cis.— It has occurred to me that some account 

 of the rearing by me of two species of Cis on non-natural pabulum some years since 

 may be worth recording. 



When walking amongst some trees on a fine day in a mild winter, searching for 

 indications entomological, the merest scrap broken from a Polyportts lying on the 

 ground caught my eye and was conveyed home, where other things requiring all my 



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