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-Knowing the plant, I again visited Tottenham, and, after a long tramp to find 
Sisynihrinm, at lust got several of the Ceidhnrhynchus. Its larger size and more 
torpid habits readily distinguish it in the net from C. assimilis. The other and 
still rarer species, C. tarsalis, appears only to have been met with by Mr. Water- 
hougff) who some years ago found it on Sisijmbrium, near Erith, in June. I have 
visited this locality for it in vain, until the present year, when I obtained a single 
specimen near Belvedere station ; a hot and dusty day's walk seai-ching for more 
of the plant resulting in nothing but the eternal chalybeus, quoMidens, fioralis, 
pyrrlwrhynchus, &c., and the tantalizing sxilcicollis, wliich is very like tarsaUs, save 
that the latter has Ughter tarsi, and a slight metallic tinge. My solitary capture 
is due to a very curious coincidence. Writing to Dr. Sharp in Scotland that I 
intended again visiting Erith for tarsalis, he replied that, among some beetles 
casually taken at Belvedere (the next station) and sent to him, was one fine 
im-salis. My search, accordingly, commenced at Belvedere, and resulted in the 
only specimen I obtained all day. My friend, the Rev. W. Tylden, has also recently 
found C. tarsaUs near Hythe, Kent. — Id. 
New species of Brachelytra described in the Stettin Ent. Zeit.— Dr. Bethe, in the 
Stettin Ent. Zeit., 1867, p. 307, describes as new two species of Brachelytra found 
by Dr. Eppelsheim at Diirkheim, in Bavaria. The first of these, Oxytelus Eppels- 
heimii, is in the group of its genus with laterally crenulated thorax, and allied to 
0. rugosus and 0. insecatus ; but is distinguished by its narrow parallel build, its 
close and even longitudinal rugosity, its red antennse and legs; and the sexual 
characters of the male, in which the 5th segment of the abdomen beneath has a 
sharp, prominent, pitchy -black tubercle in the middle of the hinder margin ; the 
6th segment is longitudinally foveolated, and with two tubercles on its hinder 
margin ; and the 7th segment is trilobed. The other species, Evcesthetus Maria;, 
which is black and almost opaque, appears most to resemble the E. pullus of 
Thomson, — difiering from that insect in its darker colour, parallel and flatter build, 
male characters, &c. Its smaller size, independently of sexual distinctions, separate 
it from E. scaher and E. liyviusculus ; and its darker colour and thicker punctuation 
distinguish it fi-om E. ruficapillii,s. — Id. 
Notes on spring collecting in the vicinity of London. — The best thing to be got 
near Wandsworth in February and the beginning of March is, pei'haps, N. hispidaria, 
for which object, in company with Mr. J. B. Blackburn, I paid a good many visits 
to Richmond Park. Unfortunately, however, we obtained nothing better than 
P.pilosoria, H. leucophearia, progemmaria, and such-like, and, thinking we were too 
early, had resolved to wait a week or so, when that unseasonable weather set in, which 
continued with unmitigated wi-etchedness till the close of the month. May I ask 
other collectors whether N. hispidaria has been unusually scarce in the Park this 
season ? 
Notwithstanding the severity of the weather the sallows were rather forward, 
and by the 20th March were well out in the neighbouring woods. The next week 
we spent in unprofitable expeditions to sallows in our immediate neighbourhood, 
but as nothing better turned up than a stray T. munda or C. vaccinii, we determined 
to have an evening at Croydon. 
