I^g^ [December, 



sarnbucalis, E. verhascalis, Spilodes cinctalis, Phycis rohorella, Melia sociella, Halias 

 prasinana, H. quercana (of this lovely insect I have bred a number of specimens 

 from larvae found on oak), H. chlorana, Phtheocli/roa rugoscma, Argyrolepia Baumann- 

 iana (took a dozen or so), Tinea semifulvella (one specimen), Adela Be-Qeerella 

 (common), Dasycera Oliviella, ^c. 



I think that this long list shows that at any rate, so far as this district ia 

 concerned, this is not by any means a bad season, and I shall be very glad to learn 

 that my brother collectors in other parts have been as successful as we have been 

 here. I wish it to be distinctly understood that at present I offer no duplicates 

 for exchange, and if I receive as many letters during the next week or two as I 

 have received on former occasions when I have published lists of my captures, my 

 correspondents must not blame me if some of them receive no answers. — W. H. 

 Haewood, St. Peter's, Colchester, July ISiTi. 



Hotes on Coleoptera taken at Putney. — The few and short opportunities afforded 

 to me for collecting since my removal to this place have convinced me that it is a 

 first-rate locality for beetles ; as I have already not only made acquaintance with 

 divers species never before seen alive by me, but have also taken three or four 

 new to my collection. 



My best captures have been made out of and upon a large, very old, and long 

 since dead beech-tree, much tenanted under its sheets of dry bark by Onisci, and 

 (strange to say) by not a few large Noduw. Under this bark, nearly always 

 accompanied by Oniscus, invariably adhering to the tree in preference to the bark, 

 and mostly frequenting the under-side of the junction of some large limb with the 

 parent trunk, or some other corner where a little extraneous damp had collected 

 (for the inherent moisture of the tree had long since departed), I was lucky enough 

 to " happen upon " Brontes planatus, hitherto represented in our catalogues, vrith 

 the suspicion of doubt as to their British origin, by three specimens taken by my 

 friend Mr. Douglas at Blackheath. There can, however, be no doubt that the 

 insect is truly indigenous to this country j as I obtained several specimens, of both 

 sexes, with the var. pallida (not immature), and larvse ; and the tree wherein I 

 found them is amongst other undoubtedly British trees, not felled, and a long way 

 from any habitation or cultivated ground. The majority of my specimens were 

 found at some distance up the tree ; though I lately obtained one or two under the 

 bark below the surface of the ground, in company with the larvae of Pyrochroa. 

 The Brontes runs with great speed, and " twiddles " its antennae rapidly about. 

 I have a lively recollection of hanging on to a large bough, at a considerable 

 elevation, with ancles and fingers, like a sloth ; and, after tearing away the bark 

 with one hand, and shutting my eyes to avoid the shower of dust, &c., of seeing 

 five Brontes radiating at their best pace in different directions. However, I secured 

 all (breaking, alas ! three of them) by a rapid manual application of saliva. 



Under loose bark covering a slight fungoid growth, on the same tree, I also 

 found one specimen of the Hallomenus fascus of Wat. Cat., which Mr. Crotch has 

 recently informed us is Anisoxya fusca, 111., and of which only two British examples 

 wei'o lately known ; one taken by Dr. Power, and the other by Mr. Brewer, and 

 now in the National Collection. I also took one or two speoimeus of Tetratoma 



