if. THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Fr., 1877, p. elxxv. The yellow Glauciwm is not uncommon on 
our coasts, but this instance is given as only, what should be, a 
sample of many. Their record would be a gain to others.— 
Epwarp A. Firrcu; Maldon, Essex. 
A FLOWER ATTRACTIVE TO INsEcTs.—No flower seems to me 
more generally attractive to insects than the so-called African 
stonecrop. Its odour, though sweetish, is neither very fragrant 
nor very powerful, and its dull reddish colour does not to our 
eyes seem particularly striking; yet wherever they grow they 
seem preferred to all other flowers, not merely by butterflies, 
moths, and bees, but by many dipterous insects,—J. W. SLATER ; 
18, Wray Crescent, Tollington Park, N., January 21, 1880. 
CERAMBYX MOSCHATUS.—Judging from my own experience I 
should say that not only do British specimens of Ceramby« 
moschatus vary from continental ones, as Mr. Slater points out 
(Entom. xu. 21), but that examples from different localities, 
even in our own country, are often very dissimilar in colour and 
size. When I lived at Alresford I used to find this beautiful 
beetle not at all uncommon; in fact I could take numbers any 
evening during the season by a bait which may be new to many. 
This was a lump of dough placed on the ground, or on the trees 
or hedges near an osier bed (Salix viminalis), which they fre- 
quented. These Alresford specimens were very large, and of a 
bright green, differing greatly from some examples sent me from 
Nottingham a short time since, which were of a bronze-green 
colour, and not a third the size. It is rather strange, seeing that 
there is no lack of the food-plant of the larve, that in this district 
the beetle seems quite unknown.—JosrepH ANDERSON, jun., 
Chichester, January 6, 1880. 
MonoHAmMus suToR AT York.—I have a fine specimen 
of the rare beetle Monohammus sutor taken in a small garden 
near my house last summer (1879).—W. Simmons; 6, New Walk 
Terrace, York, January 20, 1880. 
THE GLOow-worm (Entom. xii. 20).—The larva of this insect 
very much resembles the imago ; it is also luminous, although in 
a less degree. ‘These larvee may be seen very late in the autumn, 
and again in the spring, long before the real glow-worms appear. 
—GerEoRGE R. Wresspate; 88, High Street, Barnstaple. 
