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exit from a gall of Kematus Vallis?iierii, Hartig, on a leaf 

 of Salix fragilis, seven feet from the ground, which it 

 reached by spinning a very fine silken thread of that length. 



Mr. J. J. Walker (Ent. Mo. Mag., ix, pp. 216 and 217), 

 records from Kent Ceuthorhynchideus frontalis (common), 

 Thyamis ahsinthii, and Mordellistena pusilla on Artejnisia 

 maritima, and Trachyphlceus spinimanus and squamulatus 

 (also T. altertians, Rev. AV. Tylden, ibid., p. 290), at roots 

 of Helianthemum vulgare. The two first, with T. scaber, 

 aristatus, and myrmecopJiilus have been found in connection 

 ^lih Lotus corjiiculatus by Mr. Moncreaff, — ibid., x, p. 158, 

 —who has also bred Tychius squamulatus from its seed- 

 pods, and found T. hcematocephalus (Ent. Ann. 1873, p. 7, 

 Frontisp. fig. 6) at its roots; Ent. Mo. Mag., x, p. 158.. 

 T. lineatulus occurs on Anthyllis vulneraria : J. J.Walker, 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., x, p. 84. 



Bruchus. The external male characters of most of the 

 recorded British species have been compendiously pointed 

 out by the Rev. H. S. Gorham (Ent. Mo. Mag., ix, p. 191). 



The dark violet-blue Graptodera from Wimbledon, men- 

 tioned in Ent. Ann. 1869, p. 56, has been taken in some 

 numbers near Manchester by Mr. J. Chappell, on Epilobium 

 angustifoliinn. I am unable to find a $ among specimens 

 kindly sent to me by him, which I dissected because Dr. 

 vSharp had failed to find that sex among his own specimens 

 and those in my collection. Dr. Sharp finds suflScient cha- 

 racter in the male intromittent organ to separate G. pusilla 

 and montana satisfactorily; so that it is particularly desirous 

 that the i of this insect should be found. 



Our Trachyphlceus myrmecophilus has been corroborated 

 by Dr. Seidhtz, the author of the species, who tells me that 

 some of Mr. Moncreafif's specimens sent to him by me agree 

 exactly with others from vSpain. (Ent. Mo. Mag., x, p. 138). 



The elegant little Ceuthorhynchideus (apparently still un- 



