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Orsodacna cerasi, in blossoms. Oonioctena pallida : I found a few froehly disclosed 

 specimens of this insect on hazel (!) very early in the month of June, accompanied 

 by many green larvae, feeding upon the leaves, and which I have little doubt 

 belonged to the same insect. Pteryx suturalis. 



Aleochara ruficomis and Thymalus linihatus have been found here this year by 

 Earl de Grey and Ripon. 



The following species were taken at Nocton, in Lincolnshire : — 

 Pterostichus ohlongo-punctatus, Falagria sulcatula, Leptusa ruficollis, Enceplialus 

 complicans, Phlceocharis suhtilissima, Colenis dentipes, Liodes orbicularis, Amphicyllis 

 globus and Agathidium atrum (of each of which two last mentioned species I met 

 with theuniformly red-brown variety only), Epurcea melanocephala, PoccMusfemi' 

 gineus, Malthodes atomus, Byturus fumatus, HedoMa imperialis, Cis aVni, 

 Scaphidema metallica (from dead sticks), Mordellistena abdominalis, Brachytarsus 

 scabrosus and B. varius, Rhynchites cBueo-virens (common), Tropiphorus mercurialis, 

 Bhytidosomios globulus, Amalus scortillum, Orobitis cyaneus, and Hylesinus oleiperda. — 

 Edward A. Waterhouse, Fountains Hall, Eipon, November, 1867. 



Note on the occurrence of Coccinella labilis near Canterbury. — I took three 

 specimens of this rare beetle by sweeping heath, &c., on the 19th April last, in the 

 woods between Whitstable and Canterbury. I also took two in the same locality 

 last year. At first I fancied they were mere large spotted varieties of the common 

 C. 1 -punctata, and did not know until lately that they were referable to the scarcer 

 C. labilis.— G. C. Champion, 274, Walworth Road, S., 21si November, 1867. 



[It will be remembered that Dr. Sharp has recorded the capture of C. labilis 

 at Heme Bay.— E.C.R.] 



Note on the capture of a species of Tomicus new to owr list. — In February, 1866, 

 I found several specimens of a small wood-boring beetle, which at the time I fancied 

 might be Dryoccetes (Tomicus) villosus, under the bark of a decayed branch of a 

 beech-tree lying on the ground in one of the woods near Prestwich, a small village 

 in the environs of Manchester. These specimens were nearly all destroyed, when 

 my cabinet was completely submerged during the serious inundations caused by 

 the overflowing of the Irwell ; but I captured a few more of the insect during the 

 present year, at the same time and place, under the bark of recently felled beech- 

 trees. Some of these I sent up to Mr. Rye, for his opinion as to their specific 

 identity ; and he informs me that he thinks it pi^obable they are the insect intended 

 to be signified by the Tomicus (Ips) fuscus of our countryman, Marsham ; an 

 insect which since the time of that author appears to have escaped observation 

 in this country. — Thos. Morley, 29, John Street, Pendleton, Manchester, 9th 

 December, 1867. 



Note on Tomicus (Ips) fuscus, Marsham. — I tliink it not impossible that Mr. 

 Morloy's insect above recorded may be the true Ips fuscus of Marsham. Gyllenhal, 

 after giving the beech as the habitat of his fuscus, states that he had the insect 

 also from England, sent to him by Kirby, as the Marshamian species of that name. 

 Now Gyllenhal's insect, according to De Marseul, is identical with the bicolor of 



