54 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



have come for your box of flies, have you ? I stuck it in the fire, 

 as you never came to pay your score as j t ou promised." 



So endeth (Ecoplwra woodiella, except the specimen in Curtis's 

 collection, which is, I believe, now in Australia, and the two 

 specimens belonging to Carter. These were sold with his col- 

 lection of British insects to the Manchester Museum of Natural 

 History, and when we handed that institution over to Owen's 

 College the collection and two (E. woodiella went with it ; and 

 there the two specimens were, in capital preservation, the last 

 time I saw them. The trustees lent me the specimens to exhibit 

 at a meeting of the Manchester Field and Philosophical Society ; 

 and I took a photograph of them, and I also made very careful 

 drawings of them. The copies of Curtis's, Wood's, Humphrey and 

 Westwood's, and Morris's are all more or less unlike the original 

 species. We may hope it will some day turn up again, and I have 

 no doubt it will. Lymexylon navale, a conspicuous species of 

 beetle, is recorded as having been once taken, in 1828, in Windsor 

 Forest, and so none had any in their collections, except from 

 the Continent ; whilst all this time it had been existing in 

 Durham Park, where my friend Mr. Chappell found it one sum- 

 mer evening a few years ago. Since then we have found out its 

 habits and history, and it has been found in scores and seen 

 in hundreds in its haunts in the park. So with (Ecoplwra 

 icoodiclla ; I believe we only want to know its habits to find it 

 again : and in these days of blue ribbon armies we may hope 

 the specimens, when found, will meet with a better fate than 

 being burned in the kitchen of a small public-house. 

 Bowdon, Cheshire, January 9, 1884. 



THE GENUS CERCYON. 



By Rev. W. W. Fowler, M.A., F.L.S. 



The species of this genus are usually very puzzling to 

 beginners ; this is by no means strange, if we remember that 

 Stephens, in his ' Illustrations,' described no less than sixty 

 species as British. These have since been reduced to seventeen, 

 and one new one has been added; besides these, the closely 

 allied genera Megasternum and Cryptopleurvm must always be 

 considered in any paper bearing on the Cercyons. 



