44 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Anticlea sinuaia in Hampshire. — The occurrence of a 

 specimen of this local insect — near Winchester, I believe — is 

 recorded in the August number of this journal (Entom. vi. 

 456). This specimen was taken on the 10th of July, 1873. 

 One evening, on the 30lh of the same month, I was collecting 

 on the borders of the New Forest, taking a few of the pretty 

 little A. eraarginata, — which, indeed, was about the only 

 species to be met with, for everything has been unusually 

 scarce this season, — and I was somewhat surprised to beat 

 out a very good specimen of A. sinuata from a bush of 

 hawthorn and bramble. I believe it is the first instance of its 

 occurrence in the neighbourhood of the New Forest ; and, 

 although I visited the locality several evenings after my 

 capture, I did not see another specimen. The one I caught 

 is the first I ever saw alive. — G. B. Corhin. 



Chauliodus chcerophyllelliis bred. — Towards the end of 

 August last I gathered a few larvae of this species from off 

 the parsnep growing in my garden. The larva may be 

 detected on the under side of the leaf, near the tip, by giving 

 it a ragged appearance ; it changes to pupa by making a 

 netted web on the leaf, and the insect a])pears in a week or 

 two afterwards. The larva is not much unlike that of 

 Xylopoda Fabriciana. — F. O. Slandislt ; 402, High Street, 

 Cheltenham, November 30, 1873. 



Cet07iia aurata, or the Rose-beetle. — Not being a Coleop- 

 terist I do not know whether it will interest your readers to 

 know that, while digging round an old ash-tree for pupae of 

 Lepidoptera, I turned out from a decayed part of the tree 

 about a dozen of this beetle, each in a strongly-made earth- 

 cocoon, similar to that of CucuUia Verbasci, except that it 

 was free from web. May I ask if it is usual for this pretty 

 beetle to hybernate in this singular way ? — Id. 



[It had probably fed on the decayed wood of the ash, and 

 had emerged from the pupa state without flying. I do not 

 think it could be said to have hybernated. — .E. Newman.'] 



Carabus nitens in the New Forest. — During a day's col- 

 lecting of Lepidoptera in the New Forest I caught two, and 

 saw several others, of this lovely ground-beetle. They were 

 running about in the sunshine on a boggy piece of heath, 

 and seemed to lose much of their activity if the weather 

 became cloudy. Is such a habit common to this species ? as 



