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douLt to the cold winds of April and May. A far greater 

 proportion, more than has heen known before, were of tlie var. 

 inceata, with intermediate forms. I have noticed that these dark 

 forms have become more numerous during the last four seasons. 

 — Wm. Newmam ; 21, Ilussell Street, Darlington. 



The Colorado Beetle. — I read in the ' Entomologist ' 

 (page 108), a notice by Mr. Cockerell in regard to this species, 

 which is still mentioned under tlie generic name of Dorypliora, 

 although in a former communication on the subject the species is 

 rightly i)laced in Lej)tliiotars(i. The germs Doryplwra is dis- 

 tinguished from all other true Chrysomelinfe by liaving the 

 mesosternum produced into a longer or shorter horn-like process, 

 wliich in Leptbwtarsa is entirely absent; the Colorado potato- 

 beetle should, therefore, never be s])oken of as a Doryphora. It 

 seems yet somewhat doubtful which is the real culprit amongst 

 several closely-allied species of Leptinotarsa ; the figures sent 

 out and published from America give the species with red legs 

 (Say does not mention the colour of the legs), but there are 

 several closely-allied species {L. junta and L. 11- iineata) in which 

 the legs are black ; all of them have been found to inhabit 

 Mexico and other parts of Central America, and it is quite 

 possible that it is not only L. lO-lineata which is said to do such 

 mischief, but also some of his near relations. I should be very 

 glad to receive dead specimens of authenticated potato-beetles 

 from America, to compare them with their Mexican allies in my 

 collection. — Martin Jacoby; 7, Hemstall Road, West Hampstead. 



LucANUs CERvus IN LINCOLNSHIRE. — I had the pleasure of 

 taking a few specimens of Lucanas cervus, females, in this 

 locality quite recently, the largest measuring one inch and a 

 quarter.* This will be information for Mr. W. PL Bath. I also 

 obtained one specimen of Scaphidiuiii quadriinaculutinn. — C. K. 

 Tei;o; b 32, Kent Street, Grimsby, July 20, 1888. 



Strangalia aurulenta, F. — I found several specimens of this 

 handsome beetle beside a small beech-plantation south-west of 

 Great Berkhampstead, on 2 1st and 22nd of July. They seem to 

 affect the flowers of Scablosa arvciisls, Sec — John T. Carrington ; 

 New Broad Street House, London, E.C., July, 1888. 



* Lucunus cervus, L., was takeu by myself iu Bostou, Lincolnshiic, in 1872, 

 while on a visit to that district.— T. II. B. 



