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Rare British aND Importep CoLeoprera.—Mr. Harwoop 
exhibited two specimens of Micrurula melanocephala taken 
near Bishop’s Stortford by sweeping in the evening, which 
he believed to be var. brunnea, Heer. Also two specimens of 
Ocypus cyaneus taken by Mr. W. H. Harwood at Colchester, 
one in May and the other in June of this year, the first 
specimens taken in the district for nineteen years. Also a 
species of Coccinella taken in a case of Tasmanian apples at 
Colchester. 
SounpD MADE By A Lonaicorn Larva.—Dr. K. Jorpan asked 
for information with regard to the following experience : 
When out late one night in the Bihar Mts. in Hungary, 
he heard, at short intervals, a subdued sound, decidedly more 
like chirping than knocking, which he attributed to some 
small species of Orthoptera. He located it to a telegraph- 
pole about fifteen yards away ; but on examining the pole the 
sound proved to issue from underneath the bark, and here a 
fairly large larva (smaller than a full-grown larva of Rhagium 
inquisitor) of a Lepturid Longicorn beetle was found, which 
retreated so hastily into its hole that it could not be secured. 
Is it known of any Longicorn larva that it produces an 
imitation grasshopper-song 4 
Arrican Species oF AcrRaEA.—Mr. H. EtrrincHAm ex- 
hibited specimens of African Acraeas, to show that wide 
differences of colour and pattern may occur in a single species, 
and conversely, that certain species which can scarcely be 
distinguished by their outward appearance are nevertheless 
very distinct, as shown by the structure of the male armature. 
Thus A. astrigera, Butl., from E. Africa merges gradually 
into the same author’s A. pseudolycia, through an inter- 
mediate form named f. brunnea. A. astrigera is a brilliant 
orange-and-scarlet form, whilst pseudolycia is black-and-white. 
In the same way A. humilis, Sharpe, was found to be speci- 
fically identical with A. orestia, Hew. The exhibitor remarked 
that he had been pleased to learn only that morning that 
his conclusions in regard to the latter species had just been 
confirmed by breeding, details of which he hoped to be able 
to publish on a future occasion. Mr. Eltringham further 
showed examples of A. chambezi, Neave, and A. mansya, Eltr. 
PROC. ENT. SOC. LOND., 111. 1911. E 
