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Euchromia rufana in Lancashire. — I found this iuscct in a fresh locaUty ou the 
coast, and it appears to stir most at mid-day, under a hot sun. I could sec no 
special food-plants for the larva to feed on ; Lotus corniculatus abounded, and most 
probably it will be found to feed on it. The females occurred in the proportioa of 
about one in a score. I should be glad if any ouo would send me Eu. imrimrana 
from different localities to compare.— Id. 
Occurrence of Eromene ocellea near Dumfries. — During my last visit to Scotland, 
a beautiful example of one of the Cramhida.', which I have since learned to be 
Eromene ocellea, was shown to mo by Mr. Louuon, its captor, who kindly entrusted 
it to me for the purpose of getting it named. It was captured at light in the first 
week of September, 1865, at the Crichton Institution, about a mile from Dumfries. 
The specimen is in fine condition.— George J. Heauder, Powick, October 1st, 1866. 
Capture of Anthopliagus prjrenoeus, Ch. Bris., new to Britain.— In a series of 
Antlwphagi collected last July during my visit to North Perthshire, I have detected 
a few specimens that answer to M. Brisout's description of the above-named 
insect, — which has recently been separated from A. alpinus. Whether the two 
species be really distinct is perhaps open to doubt, as the male characters in 
alpinus are notoriously subject to modifications of development ; but I think it 
should be borne in mind that continental naturalists are more likely to form a cor- 
rect estimate of the relative values of specific characters in this large genus than 
we are, who only meet with two or three of its species in our own land. The fol- 
lowing is a rough description of .4. pyrenceus. 
A. pyrenmus, Ch. Bris., closely allied to A. alpinus, and hitherto confounded 
with it. It difi"ers as follows : Thorax a little more contracted behind ; elytra and 
thorax somewhat more deeply punctured. In the male the head is more deeply 
cmarginate ; mandibles much larger and more suddenly dilated at the base ; 
frontal horns longei', more slender, and inchncd somewhat outwards. — T. Black- 
burn, Grassmeade, Southfields, Wandsworth, S.W. 
Note on Philonthus tenuicornis, Muls.; a species not previously recorded as 
British.— Rerr Scriba (Berl. Ent. Zeit., 10, 1866, p. 293,) records the capture of 
this insect at Ober-lais, and states that it is separated from P. carhoyiarius, Gyll , by 
its more slender antennae, of which the penultimate joints are as long as broad, and 
by the 6th abdominal segment of the male not being emarginate beneath. He 
remarks that the insect has a wide range, as he possesses specimens from Allgau, 
Ehine district, and Ireland. The descriptions of punctiventris, tenuicornis, and 
temporalis do not seem to me to admit of accurate discrimination. Mr. Crotch, in 
the second edition of his catalogue, assigns the P. punctiventris of Wat. Cat. as a 
synonym to P. tenuicornis. This cannot be correct, if Herr Scriba be right; as 
the 6th abdominal segment of the <? of our punctiventris is very distinctly emargi- 
nate.— E. C. Rye, 284, King's Road, Chelsea. 
Notes from the Berlin Transactions on the habits of Leptinus, <5r-c.— Herr Eichhoff 
(Berl. Ent. Zeit., 10, 1866, p. 294) records the fact that Leptinu,s testaceus lives in 
the nests of a large, black, white-tailed Bombus (which he queries asB. terrestris). 
