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Dr. Buchanan White in the article above quoted. The fungus is 

 somewhat more robust than that figured in 1878, and the larva, of 

 what species I know not, is more contracted and shrivelled. — 

 (Kev.) William W. Flemyng; Portlaw, Co. Waterford, March 

 13, 1882. 



Plectroscelis aridula, Oyll. — Whilst staying at Chilham, 

 near Canterbury, in September last, I caught one or two speci- 

 mens of Plectroscelis aridula, Gyll., by sweeping amongst the 

 herbage under hedgerows. At the time I did not recognise the 

 species, or probabl}^ I should have been able to obtain many 

 more specimens. Unfortunately I can now only find one of them 

 in my laurel bottle. I hope to get the species again next year, as 

 I believe most Halticidce are generally to be found on their 

 respective food-plants in their localities. — A. Sidney Olliff ; 

 36, Mornington Koad, Regent's Park, N.W. 



Callistus lunatus, F., at Reigate. — It may interest some 

 of your readers to know that, on the 13th of last month, after 

 several unsuccessful visits to Reigate in hopes offinding this 

 beautiful Coleopteron, I at last succeeded in finding its habitat, 

 and captured nine specimens. I have little doubt I should have 

 been enabled to supply a few to friends if allowed to collect a 

 little longer ; but, after some few minutes my happiness was some- 

 what rudely terminated by a pair of the most cantankerous 

 gamekeepers it has ever been my lot to meet with, and whom no 

 amount of persuasion and argument on my part could convince 

 that I was not after the rabbits ; and so little did I impress 

 them that they would not leave me until they had walked me 

 nearly a mile away from the spot. This is, I believe, the greatest 

 number of this lovely insect that has been taken at one time 

 since Messrs. Power and Janson collected it in such numbers, 

 now nearly twenty years since. — T. R. Billups ; 20, Swiss Villas, 

 Coplestone Road, Peckham, March, 1882. 



Ichneumon erythr^us, Gr. — While searching for Coleoptera 

 at one of my favourite localities in the neighbourhood of Mickle- 

 ham, on the 22nd of February, I was agreeably surprised to meet 

 once more with the above very beautiful and probably our hand- 

 somest species of the British Ichneumonidfe. As I believe this 

 is the first recorded account of its capture, it perhaps will be 

 useful to note the circumstances under which the present 



