60 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



another DicroramjJha, which I found along the coast, and of 

 which I submitted an example to Mr. Barrett, who says : — " I am 

 unable to separate it from tanacetana, although, like your aljnnana, 

 it occurs where tansy certainly is not its food-plant .... and 

 see no possibility of proving its distinctness." So it would appear 

 that D. tanacetana, like its ally alpinana, does not confine itself 

 to one particular species of food-plant, but can and does accommo- 

 date itself not only to allied species of plants, but even to allied 

 genera, though after all there is not much difference in the pro- 

 perties of Matricaria, Chrysanthemum, and Tanacetum, each 

 being more or less aromatic, and all tonic. D. petiverana, D. 

 plumbagana, and D. acuminatana also occurred. The new 

 Dicrorampha, figured in last year's volume, will shortly be 

 described. 



Trycheris mediana was sometimes captured in a garden, at 

 rest on southernwood in the sunshine. 



Lohesia reliquana ; a few in woods. Eupoecilia maculosana, 

 E. angustana, E. rupicolana, and E. curvistrigana were met with, 

 but not commonly. 



Xanthosetia Zoegana and X. hamana were common ; so also 

 were Chrosis tesserana and Cochylis stramineana. 



II, Abbey Gardens, St. John's Wood, N.W., Jan. Ifi, 1882. 



NATURAL LOCALITIES OF BRITISH COLEOPTERA. 



By Rev. W. W. Fowler, M.A., F.L.S. 



No. I.— INTEODUCTION. 



As SO many fresh students seem to be taking up the order 

 Coleoptera, it has been thought that a few words as to the 

 habitat, &c., of some of our British species might be of service 

 to many readers of this journal. 



Full particulars as to the anatomy of beetles, methods of 

 collecting, setting, &c., are given in Eye's ' British Beetles,' which 

 is by far the best book with which to begin the subject; but it 

 may not be amiss, in an introductory chapter, to give a few 

 useful hints on certain points. 



As far as apparatus is concerned, the chief things wanted for 

 ordinary work are a strong fern-trowel, a stout ring sweeping- 



