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example, on the 16th September, at Bickleigh. Mr. Bridgman 

 very kindly named the species of this most difficult group for me, 

 the difficulty arising from the great variation in size and colour. 

 — G. C. Bignell; Stonehouse, Devon, December 22, 1881. 



[The handsome Pezomachus oxylochoiihilus has been taken by 

 Mr. J. W. May, near the Kaynes Park Station, Wimbledon, in Sep- 

 tember, 1878; by Mr. T. K. Billups, at Eainham, Essex, on July 

 11th, 1881 ; and by Mr. Bridgman, at Blundall, near Norwich. — 

 E. A. F.] 



Plagiodera armoraci^, L. — I observe in the January number 

 of the 'Entomologist' (Entom. xv. 23) that Mr. Theodore Wood, 

 after referring to my letter, says that this beetle " may, possibly, 

 be often passed over as the common Phadon cochlearice." I can 

 hardly think that this is the case, as Mr. G. C. Champion, who 

 would be very unlikely to make such a mistake, considered P. 

 armoracicB far from common ; indeed he found very few. Those 

 who have once seen P. armoracice gleaming under the bark of the 

 willow would not confound it with any other beetle. I have 

 never secured very many at one time ; in fact, during the whole 

 of one season I took but three ; they were, however, more 

 abundant this season. I rather agree with the Eev. W. W. 

 Fowler's remarks as to the rarity of Plagiodera, in his paper on 

 the genus Phcsdon ; as, judging from the number of coleopterists 

 who have been supplied with series from my captures, it would 

 appear that, if not scarce, it is an extremely local insect. I have 

 searched the willows in many places, but, with the exception of 

 the one locality in Surrey from which I procure it, I have been 

 unable to discover any traces of it. — G-. A. Lewcock ; 40, Oxford 

 Boad, Islington, N., January 14, 1882. 



Description of the Larva of Lina longicollis. — At 

 Abbot's Wood, near Eastbourne, in Sussex, I saw large numbers 

 of this insect, the larvae of which had devastated many of the 

 young trees, eating the leaves completely to a skeleton condition. 

 The following is a description of them : — White, with a blackish 

 line in the centre, from the 3rd segment, becoming indistinct and 

 interrupted after the 9tli. On the 3rd and 4th segments are 

 three black spots in the form of a triangle ; on the 5th to 9th one 

 larger spot on each side; on the 10th and 11th the spots 

 coalesce ; while the 12th and 13th are (on the upper side) 



