186 [January, 



some of them possess wing-scales, indicating complete development. I had pre- 

 viously seen only single examples, and generally they came from boxes of foreign 

 insects. The boxes in which they came (alive) to me have been committed to the 

 flames, so as to avoid a possible addition to the Fauna of my collections. — E. 

 McLachlan, Lewisham : November 27th, 1880. 



On the metamorphoses of Blepharoceridce. — As an addition to Baron Osten- 

 Sacken's communication {ante p. 130) on Dr. Fritz Miiller's discovery of the I 

 metamorphoses of Plepharoceridcc, I beg to call the attention of Dipterologists to 

 my report on the same subject in Carus's Zoologischer Anzeiger, No. 51, April, 1880, 

 p. 134. It treats on the metamorphoses of the European Plepharocera fasciata, I 

 both sexes of which, according to Prof. Mik's discovery of the J > wave the eyes I 

 close to each other, of which Baron Osten-Sacken convinced himself at Vienna, but [ 

 has forgotten to point it out in his notice. — F. Brauer, Vienna : Nov. 27th, 1880. 



A colony of Ptinella denticollis in WanvicJcshire. — A short time agr I found 

 an example of the rather uncommon Ptinella denticollis, at Solihull near here, and 

 which was kindly determined for me by the Rev. A. Matthews. This led me to 

 engage in a systematic hunt for the species, in which I have been very successful. 

 Under dead bark at Knowle, I recently discovered quite a large colony of this little 

 beetle, some two hundred specimens of which I have captured without apparently 

 diminishing their numbers. Both males and females occurred, the latter being, as 

 usual, the least abundant. — W. Q-. Blatch, Green Lane, Smallheath, near Birming- 

 ham : November 20th, 1880. 



Capture of Sitaris muralis in the nest of Pombus terrestris. — In August last 

 in a nest of Pombus terrestris, having its entrance in a wall supporting the earth oni 

 one side of a road, cut in the side of a hill, near Woodchester Park, Gloucester, I 

 found an imago of Sitaris muralis. As there were also several strange looking larvffi 

 in the nest I took it home, unfortunately I was unable to watch them, and only onei 

 other Sitaris developed, the others all died. — H. Sebastian B. Gates, Dominican 

 Priory, Woodchester : December, 1880. 



Larva of Acronycta aim at Bristol. — It may be interesting to some of yourj 

 readers to know, that about the second week of July last, I found two larvae of? 

 Acronycta alni in our garden, on some French beans, but I have little doubt that 

 they fell from an apple tree that overhung the beans. One was in very good condition,] 

 fresh and beautifully coloured ; the other had several of the horsehair-like appendages 

 broken off ; and the stripes on each segment, instead of being (as in the other)! 

 yellow, were a dingy white. The first died 60on after I captured it (neither ofl 

 them fed while I had them), but the other changed to pupa, and is I think free| 

 from ichneumon. — Philip Gray, 20, Arley Hill, Bristol : December 4th, 1880. 



P.S. — This species, I am given to understand, has been found before in Bristol,! 

 but very rarely. — P. G\ 



An additional food-plant for Laverna epilobiella, Pomer. — In July last, I : 

 with four larva? of this insect feeding on Ppilobium montanum. One moth was 

 bred in the beginning of August : the others, having escaped or died. — J. 

 Flrtchrtj. Happy Land, Worcester: Xorcmber, 1880. 



