1880.] qj 



A. ancilla, Lep. (glabricollis, Thorns.), differs from it in its shining, 

 glabrous thorax, in the pleurae being entirely luteous, the antenuae 

 more clavate, &c. 



For this species I am indebted to Mr. Allen Harker, who sent me 

 the larvae last autumn from near Gloucester, where he found them 

 feeding on Scutellaria galericulata, and from these I succeeded in 

 rearing the perfect insects during the last week in June. 



The larva is of a deep velvety black colour. On the sides at the top are twelve 

 white tubercles, which are longer than broad ; over the legs there is a row of larger 

 and more oval tubercles of the same colour, while above these, on the abdomen, 

 there is a row of smaller white tubercles situated above the space separating the 

 larger ones below them, this middle row of tubercles being of the same shape as 

 those on the top. The head is deep black, and covered with a moderately long pile ; 

 the legs are fuscous-black, the abdominal legs white, or dirty white. The skin is 

 rough, and of a velvety texture. In habits and mode of pupation, it does not differ 

 from the other Athalia larvae. 



It is. I believe, the larva of Scutellaria which Dahlbom figures as 

 that of A. annulata in his Prod. Hymen. Scand., pi. ii, f. 44. The 

 arrangement of the tubercles is the same, but he gives the colour of 

 the body as glaucous. The food-plant of the larva is not mentioned, 

 but the imago is stated {I. c, p. 67) by Drewsen (from whom Dahlbom 

 received the larva in spirit from which his figure was taken) to 

 frequent Brassica rapa, in July. A totally different account is, how- 

 ever, given of the larva of A. annulata by Kaltenbach, who says that 

 it is dull black, whitish on the sides, and that it feeds on Veronica 

 beccabunga (Pflanzenfeinde, p. 471). 



G-lasgow : July, 1880. 



(To be continued). 



Captures near Hastings. — The following notes contain the record of the best 

 things I have met with amongst the Coleoptera and Hemiptera in the neighbourhood 

 of Hastings during the past three years. 



Coleoptera. 

 Harpalus servus — one at roots of coarse herbage on Camber sandhills at the moutn 



of the Bother, in July, 1879. 

 Hydroporus latus — one at Hollington, in June, 1879. 

 Staphylinus latebricola — one at roots of heather at Darvel's Hole, near Netherfield, 



in April, 1879. 

 Cyrtusa pauxilla — occasionally at Newgate Wood and Guestling. 

 OdontcBiis mobilicornis — two in 1877, one near Hollington, the other at Guestling. 

 Athous difformis — two 6* and one % in June, 1878, at Hastings, close to the town. 

 Priobium castaneum — not unfrequently at Hastings, Guestling, and Fairlight. 



