236 [March, 



the beetles were brought alive from America by their possessor ; the Devonshire 

 farmers are said to be much dissatisfied at the small amount of the fine. — Eds.] 



Prices of rare exotic Coleoptera. — At the sale at Stevens's rooms on the 11th 

 February, of the collection of Coleoptera formed by the late Mr. J. Aspinall Turner 

 (formerly M.P. for Manchester), the following prices were obtained for some of the 

 most conspicuous lots. Lot 61, consisting of 2 Euchirus Dupontianus, 2 E. Macleayi, 

 3 E. Cantori, and 3 E. HardwicJcii, realized £8. Lot 91, 2 fine Goliathus giganteus, 

 sold for £7. Lot 92, 1 G. giganteus, 1 fine G. KirJcii, $ , and 1 probable variety of 

 the $ of G. cacicus, sold for £20. Lot 95, a fine and perfect Ischnoscelis Dohrni, 

 fetched £10. Lot 96, 1 I. Dohrni and 7 Ceratorrhina setulosa, fetched £7. Lot 

 97, a fine pair of Goliathus Fomassinii, realized £24. Lot 101, 1 Ceratorrhina 

 Savagei and 2 C. Polyphemus, sold for £5 10s. Lot 149, Hypocephalus paradoxus, 

 sold for £10. Lot 154, a pair of Macrotoma Hayesi and other good Prionidce, 

 realized £8. The general opinion appeared to be that rarities fetched extreme 

 prices, whereas fine sets of more ordinary species sold very cheaply. 



Notes on Mr. Saunders' Synopsis of British Heterogyna and Fossorial Hy- 

 menoptera. — 



Tapinoma polita, Smith. Bournemouth; one specimen ($), J. C. Dale. 

 Not Wales. The late Mr. Smith misread Bournemouth as Barmouth. 

 Additional localities — 



Ponera contracta, Latr. Yentnor, Deal, C. W. Dale. 



Leptothorax acervorum, Fab., appears to me to be as much a southern as a 

 northern species, as it is common in both Hampshire and Dorsetshire. 



L. unifasciata, Latr. Bare. Isle of "Wight, Seaton, Portland, and Lulworth, 

 C. W. Dale. Not Sherborne. 



Myrmecina Latreillei, Curt. Several places in Dorsetshire and Hampshire. 



Aporus unicolor, Spin. "Very rare. Middlemarsh, Dorset : one, J. C. Dale, 

 1835. 



Priocnemis hyalinatus, Fab. Parley Heath. 



Agenia variegata, Linn. Bare. Grlauvilles Wootton, Portland. 



Didineis brevicornis, Fab. Bristol, Walcot ; Grlanvilles Wootton, Lulworth, 

 Dale. 



Crabro aphidum, St, Farg. Heme, Hants, J. C. Dale, J ? , July 25th, 1842. 

 C. signatus, Panz. Glanvilles Wootton, <J , C. W. Dale, June 20th, 1867. 

 Oxybelus mandibulars, Dbm. Appledore, Devon, J. C. Dale, July 21st, 1831. 

 — C. W. Dale, G-lanvilles Wootton, Sherborne, Dorset : February, 1881. 



An Ichneumon new to Britain (Mesolius rxfilabrisj. — At Wymondley I took, 

 in August, two specimens of a fine ichneumon which Mr. Fitch has named for me, 

 Mesolius rufilabris, Zett., new to Britain. — E. A. Butler, Hastings : February 

 14th, 1881. 



Ophion minutum at Hastings. — I have to record the capture of a specimen of 

 Ophion minutum (vide The Entomologist, vol. xiii, p. 54), at Hastings during the 

 past season. It has been identified by Mr. Fitch. — F. Walter Savage, University 

 School, Hastings : February, 1881. 



