54 COLEOPTERA. 



Reverting to the work of the past year, I will first men- 

 tion the captures of certain species doubtful as British. 



The North American Clytus erythrocephalus has been 

 again taken in England. See postea, No. 39. 



Monohammus sartor, bred from a larva found in Ame- 

 rican spruce, 31. suior, taken alive on one of the pine sup- 

 ports of a coal-mine, and the North American M. dentator 

 (well knoAvn to be locally established here), taken among 

 pine-logs in a wharf, are recorded by Mr. J. Chappell from 

 the Manchester district (Ent. Mo. Mag., ix, p. 270). 



Ceranibyx {Hammaticerus) heros is recorded as captured 

 alive in Kentish Town in July last by Mr. A. Gates ; two 

 other recent examples are noted, one in Camden Town, the 

 other at Wood Green ; and a dead specimen, dug out of 

 hornbeam some years ago, by Mr. E. W. Janson, at Colney 

 Hatch, and another, said by the late Mr. Abel Ingpen to 

 have been taken at the same place, are also put upon record ; 

 —all by Mr. F. Smith (Ent. Mo. Mag., x, p. 111). 



Mr. Smith renews the question as to the claims of this 

 species and of Idonohammus sartor and sutor to be con- 

 sidered truly indigenous ; and, personally, evidently inclines 

 to the opinion that heros at all events is one of the genuine 

 autochthones. Seeing, however, the ready way in which 

 the Longicornia are transmitted, and noting, as one cannot 

 fail to do, that all these captures are absolutely in, or in the 

 vicinity of, the metropolis itself, I do not suppose that many 

 modern " hero-worshippers" will result from the appeal of 

 Mr. Smith, however interesting it may be as chronicling thei 

 occurrence of so many examples of a rare insect. 



The Australian Tropis dimidiata has been taken on the 

 wing, in South Kensington. K. Cooper, Ent. Mo. Mag., x, 

 p. 83. 



Mr. R. Lawson has shown how an insect may readily 



