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Occurrence of Lissodema cerata, Muls, ; a species of Coleoptera new to Britain. — 
When looking over my Salpingidm last spring, I detected in the space assigned to 
&. ater a specimeu that had evidently no right to be there. Mr. Crotch wras here 
lately, and I submitted my puzzle to lais inspection. He named it Lissodema amita, 
Muls. The creature was taken at Girrick, Berwickshire. — E. Hislop, Blair Bank, 
Falkirk, September, 1866. 
Scotch Coleoptera. — In July last, when sweeping under the old red sandstone 
cliffs on the coast to the north of Arbroath, I was pleased to pick up as a Scotch 
novelty, Ochina hederce, which had dropped from some overhanging ivy. Mianis 
campanula; was not uncommon upon Vicia cracca in the same neighbourhood. 
Campanula rotundifolia was not in flower at the time ; and, although I swept 0. 
glomerata, the insect was not to be found on it. The impressed penultimate seg- 
ment of the abdomen of the ^ is armed with two strong teeth. 
In Berwickshire I got Triphyllus suturalis, not previously in the Scottish list ; 
and Tetratoma fungorum, which has not yet occurred in the north, I believe, for at 
least thirty years. — Id. 
Note on Phnjganidm found in Caves. — At the meeting of the Entomological 
Society on the 2nd October, 1865 (Ent. Mo. Mag. ii., p. 143), I exhibited certain 
PhryganidcB (Stenophylax) found by the Kev. G. P. Browne in ice-caves in Switzer- 
land. I find that the partiality of these insects for caves had ah-eady been noticed 
by Kolenati, for in the Appendix to the second part of his work on Trichoptera, p. 
279, in naming some additional localities for his Stenophylax striatus {hieroglypMcus, 
Steph.) he says, " Gresten in cavernis (Schleicher, Strohmayer), Moravicse in caverna 
devonico-calcarea prope Ochotz (18 Sept. Kolenati)." Mr. Browne's examples were 
said to have been found in " hermetically sealed ice-caves," and in this lies the 
difficulty of imagining how they effected an entrance, an enigma to be solved by 
Swiss entomologists. Taking into consideration the above remarks by Kolenati, 
and the propensity that S. hieroglyphicus exhibits to enter the passages of houses, 
stables, &c., in England, it may be probable that some undiscovered means of entry 
existed in these ice-caves, and that the insects only exhibited their natural habits 
in conceaHng themselves therein.— R. McLachlan, Forest Hill, 12th Octoher, 1866. 
Occurrence of Lestes macrostigma, Eversmann, in the island of Corsica. — Amongst 
a few Neuroptera collected in Corsica by the Rev. T. A. Marshall, I find an example 
of Lestes macrostigma ; a species not included in the list of the Odonata of that 
island by M. de Selys Longchamps, published in the Annales de la Soc. Ent. de 
France for 1864, p. 35—37. Mr. Marshall says it was common in the botanic 
garden in Ajaccio. It has, however, been previously reported from Sardinia, and 
also from Sicily. — Id. 
The Record of Zoological Literature (1865) ; Vol. II. Edited by Albert C. L. 
G. GuNTHER, M.A., M.D., &c. London : John Van Voorst ; 1866. 
Last year we had occasion to notice the first volume of this invaluable Record — 
a bulky tome extending to 634 pages. Some idea of the enormous increase in the 
number of publications in the various branches of Zoology may be gathered from 
