64 [August, 
colour cutting transversely through them all ; the tubercular clots black, in the fol- 
lowing order : a transverse row of eight dots on the third and fourth segments, 
and on the fifth to the twelfth, inclusive, the anterior dorsal pair distinct, the pos- 
terior pair liardly visible, by being placed in the broad ends of the wedges, a lateral 
anterior dot midway between the sub-dorsal and black spiracular line ; a dull brown 
plate on the second segment ; head bi'ownish-ochreous, with a blackish stripe on 
each lobe from the crown to the mouth. 
Var. 3. — A dull greyish-brown ; the dorsal and sub-dorsal lines, and penulti- 
mate transverse mark, very little paler than the ground ; the tubercular dots black, 
the wedge marks black, with a thin transverse line of ground colour cutting them 
through towards the broad end. — Id. 
Endromis versicolor in Worcestershire. — On the 3rd June last I took three 
clusters (in all 38) of the larvae of this beautiful insect upon birch in Bewdley Forest, 
Worcestershire. It was evident they had not emerged from the eggs many days ; 
they were clustered towards the tips of the lower branches ; in colour almost 
black, and might readily be passed by (unless carefully e.xamined) as the larvae of 
saw-flies, their heads being thrown backwards over the body, in which position, 
when not feeding, they rest motionless. 
I shall be happy to part with a few, should any entomologist think them worth 
notice. — Edwd. S. Haines, Brettell Lane, Stowbridge, 18th Jidy, 1867. 
[Is our correspondent quite sure as to these very young larvEe being those of 
E. versicolor? — Eds.] 
Coleoptera at West Wickham. — I have, during the last two years, often taken 
hurried journeys to this well-known entomologists' haunt, — my attention being 
chiefly directed to the sand-pits on the outside of the archbishop's wood, in which 
the majority of the insects mentioned in this note were taken. 
The best pits are to the left of the high road, behind a row of small cottages 
running at right angles to it, and just past the " Volunteer" public-hoiise ; there 
is, also, a very productive Uttle pit on the left-hand side of the lane in which 
Shirley Chm'ch stands. It is some distance beyond the church, within a little 
plantation, and is easily reached by getting over a wooden gate over which a 
Notice-to-Trespassers-Board frowns in vain. The recently cut pits, with straight 
sides (and especially if the sand be rather damp, and of a very fine quality), are the 
most remunerating ; and the best time for hunting is in early spring,— when the 
warm and balmy air tempts our favourites to indiscriminate gambols on the wing 
after their long winter's rest. 
The following are some of the more noteworthy species that have occurred to 
me at this locality. 
Lebia chlorocephala, a peculiarly small and apparently permanent variety ; it 
occurs in profusion on young broom plants, near Shirley Church, about the middle 
of May. Dyschirius politus. Notiophilus rujvpes and substriatus. Cnlathus piceus, 
common in moss. Amara fulva. Harpalus tardus. Hwploglossa nidicola, in 
profusion, under sand-martins' nests. Aleochara bisignata of Wat. Cat. Ate')neles 
emarginatas, — here, for the first time, seen by me, when lazily allowing itself to be 
