238 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Phleotribus Olee near Halifax.—Prof. Westwood men- 
tioned that he had. recently been breeding in numbers the 
continental Phleotribus Olew from an ash tree growing 
near Halifax. The tree, however, was imported from France, 
so that the beetle could not yet be regarded as British, though 
it would doubtless become naturalized here. He had dissected 
it, and found that it really belonged to the Tomicus group. 
fEgosoma scabricorne.—Mr. Miiller exhibited, in spirits, a 
full-fed larva of ASgosoma scabricorne: and a piece of the 
bark of a lime tree, showing the exit-hole of the imago. On 
St. Peter’s bastion at Basle there were formerly some lime 
trees, and on the 8th of March, 1868, one of the old trees was 
blown down during a hail-storm; the larve thrown out of the 
shattered trunk were picked up by Herr Stehelin Imhoff, and 
that exhibited was one of them. In the spring of 1869 all the 
trees were felled, and in one, of much smaller size than that 
blown down in 1868, were a considerable number of the larve 
in all stages of development. The larva is of the usual 
Prionid form, and is described by Mulsant in Ann. Soc. 
de Linn. de Lyon for 1855, reprinted in his Opuse. vi. 46. 
The habit of the beetle was to fly in the twilight, and rest 
during the day on the bark, by preference in a cavity sheltered 
from the sun: it occurred in July, August, and September: in 
July, 1865, Mr. H. Knecht took thirty-eight specimens at 
Basle; in August, 1866, twenty-five specimens; whilst in 
1868 only a single specimen was captured, on the 8th of 
September. At the same spot, Osmoderma Eremita occurred 
both in 1865 und 1866; and in the latter year, Aromia 
moschata was plentiful. 
Kpinephele Tithonus and H. Comma in Shropshire.— 
Seeing a statement of yours, in your ‘ British Butterflies,’ 
that you had no record of E. Tithonus in Shropshire, I beg 
to say that I have taken it here, round Shrewsbury, the last 
four or five years in great plenty ; and last year it absolutely 
swarmed here, as it did also the preceding year. With respect 
also to Comma I caught several specimens in 1864 and 1865; 
since then I had not seen it till this year, when I took three 
very fine specimens, and saw several others: two of the spe- 
cimens were taken on July 6th and September 24th respect- 
ively, there being several fine warm days of sunshine at the 
date.—George W. Oldfield ; Shrewsbury, December 19, 1870. 
