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LATHETICUS ORYZEH: A NEW British CoLEOPTERON. — 
Through the industry and perseverance of Mr. T. R. Billups 
this insect has been added to the list of British Coleoptera. 
Although specimens have been in the British Museum, and other 
collections, for some time, it has remained to this present time a 
nondescript. As it turned up conspicuously among those other 
grain insects, about which Mr. Billups wrote an article in the 
November ‘ Entomologist’ (Entom. xil. 267), attention was called 
to it; and the result has been that it has been described by Mr. C. 
O. Waterhouse, under the above name, in the ‘ Annals and Maga- 
zine-of Natural History’. for February, 1880, pp. 147, 148. Its 
place in our cabinets will be between the genera Triboliwm and 
Gnathocerus. It is a widely-distributed insect, but its claim to be 
inserted as a British beetle is this. It occurred to Mr. Billups in 
wheat sent him from Mr. Fitch’s granaries, and since then I have 
it ina sample of English weevilled wheat from Addiscombe; but 
the strongest proof that it is entitled to a place is that it was 
obtained by Mr. Marsh, about five or six years ago, in Burnt Ash 
Lane, by sweeping. Now that attention is drawn to it we shall 
probably hear of it from other parts. Another insect obtained 
from the same wheat at the same time was a very small 
Lemophleus, distinct from L. ferrugineus, and which answers to 
the L. minimus of Stephens’s ‘Manual.’ This is Lemophleus 
pusillus, Schon., of Waterhouse’s Catalogue, and of Rye’s also; 
but it is omitted by Sharp. This insect has also been under 
careful inspection, and will be mentioned by Mr. Billups in his 
next article on the corn weevils and their associates.—VINCENT 
R. Perkins; 54, Gloucester Street, S.W. 
[All of these are undoubtedly imported insects. They have 
certainly bred in England in limited localities, but can scarcely 
be said even to be naturalised; the same may be asserted of 
many other so-called British insects, of which, however numerous 
they may be in granaries, &c., single specimens only have been 
found really at large, and that but seldom,—escapes, as it were, 
from the main body. They may perhaps be said to belong to our 
British fauna; but I think that these, and many others which we 
are sure are not indigenous, ought to be carefully distinguished 
from truly British insects.—J. A. P.] 
Forcine Leprpoprera.—On February 14th, by way of 
experiment, I placed six cocoons of Saturnia carpini, six Bombyx 
