196 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The imago is at first creamy white, with head pitchy and eyes 

 black, soon, however, becoming entirely black (with exception of 

 part of legs and antennae, which are red), and clothed with 

 silver-grey scales, three stripes along the thorax being of lighter 

 shade than the rest. Specimens confined in a box attained their 

 normal colour in about forty-eight hours, but at large the beetles 

 do not appear to leave their nidus for some time longer, probably 

 to admit of their integuments becoming fully hardened before 

 exposure. 



Park Farm, Kingsnorth, Asliford, Kent, July 21, 1882. 



Note. — With regard to the deposit of eggs, I am able to state 

 that, somewhat earlier in the season than the date at which the 

 larvae of S. lineatus were observed by Mr. Hart amongst the pea- 

 roots, I have found that weevils taken from off the peas paired 

 and laid eggs profusely in captivity. These small white eggs were 

 laid indiscriminately on the glass and cork of the cage, or on any 

 surface, there being no depth of earth wherein to bur}^ themselves 

 for oviposition, and all the eggs perished ; but looking at the 

 circumstance of the egg-laying just preceding the time of the 

 larvae being found, and connecting this with the known habit of 

 the pea-weevil of burying itself in the earth, there seems to me, 

 though we have no direct record as yet on the subject, to be little 

 doubt that in April or May the females go down to oviposit 

 a little below the surface of the ground amongst the pea -roots. — 

 E. A. Ormerod. 



CAPTURES AT FOLKESTONE DURING JULY. 

 By Reginald E. Salwey. 



A three weeks' stay at Folkestone during July having proved 

 not wholly unsuccessful from an entomological point of view, 

 may perhaps be worthy of record. 



The universal outcry upon the dearth of spring and early 

 summer Lepidoptera quite coincided with my own experience, 

 and I did not arrive at the seaside in a particularly hopeful frame 

 of mind. During the greater part of our stay I was accompanied 

 by Mr. W. Harper, who as usual proved an able assistant ; we 

 had to contend against heavy rains and an unusually cold S.W. 



