268 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Entomological Notes and Captures. 



178. Captures at Monk's Wood, Huntingdonshire. — The 

 results of an occasional day's beating at Monk's Wood, for 

 Notlius, tlioiigh not productive, may yet have some little in- 

 terest for your readers. 1 was unfortunately unable to give 

 much time to it, and so doubtless missed many things ; 

 amongst others the great object of my hopes, Rhynchites 

 Bacchus, L., which was twice found there in years gone by : 

 one of the specimens I now possess, and have repeatedly 

 sent its original captor after it, but without success. He, 

 however, astonished me by bringing from the blackthorn 

 flowers, in April, some seven or eight specimens of Brachy- 

 tarsus varius and scabrosus, in about equal numbers ; I after- 

 wards obtained a few by beating whitethorn, sweeping Chae- 

 rophyllum flowers, &c. Mordella abdominalis, Fab., male 

 and female, were not not very rare on flowers of Viburnum 

 Lantana, but the small anisotomus and colons, that I have 

 generally found abundant about 4 p.m., seem to be very rare 

 this year. Tachyporus formosus, Matth., also was by no 

 means abundant : I get this species by sweeping towards 

 dusk ; but by shaking moss, &c., I only find T. Chrysome- 

 linus and solutus. Orsodacna humeralis, Latr., I found two 

 specimens of, and by continuous beating might doubtless 

 have obtained more. The commoner inhabitants of the 

 wood, including Agapanthia lineatocollis, were in plenty, 

 and in a small stream I was delighted to find a series of He- 

 lophorus dorsalis, il/ar.?/i. (4-siguatus, Bach.), a species I had 

 not before met with in nature. Probably most of the woods 

 with which this region abounds would be equally prolific, if 

 not indeed more so, this being annually cut and thinned un- 

 mercifully. — G. R. Crotch ; University Library, Cambridge. 



179. Note 0)1 Anarta Myrtilli. — This species is looked 

 upon by some Entomologists as double-brooded, but this is 

 not, I believe, the case, at least in the vicinity of London. 

 I have taken the larva in abundance, by beating heath, 

 during the autumn months. Of these the greater proportion 

 entered the pupa state before the winter, a few which sur- 

 vived invariably dying with the commencement of severe 

 weather. From these pupaj imagos emerge during the end 

 of May and the first half of June. By beating again in April 



