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(by Mr E. W. Janson). Of the Parnidce the writer took one 

 of the few British specimens of Parnus nitidulus in a ditch at 

 Chippenham Fen ; it has since been taken in the same locality 

 by Mr Bouskell. 



The most interesting record of the Lamellicornia is Copies 

 lunaris, which, according to the Rev. L. Jenyns, occurred in 

 great plenty in a field near Melbourne in the spring of 1828, 

 but apparently has not "been noticed since. 



Of the Serricornia the little Cryptohypnus quadripustulatus 

 may be swept in Wicken and Burwell Fens, and Corymbites 

 tessekitus is not uncommon in the former locality. The last 

 specimen that has occurred in Britain of the very rare Ludius 

 ferrugineus was taken by a schoolboy, on a poplar on the 

 river Cam, between Cambridge and Grantchester; it has also 

 been recorded from Bottisham. Platycis minutus was taken 

 in some numbers by Messrs Champion, Gorham and Walker, 

 in Chippenham Fen in 1898, out of old birch stumps. The 

 "Glowworm," Lampyris noctiluca, is not uncommon in the 

 fens. Silis ruficollis is numerous in some years only, and 

 then may be taken by sweeping in Wicken and Burwell Fens. 

 Anthocomus rufus, a purely fen insect, is plentiful in Wicken 

 Fen on the meadow-sweet in August. The very rare Antho- 

 comus terminatus sometimes occurs; Messrs Beare, Bouskell 

 and Donisthorpe took a small series in Wicken Fen in 1896, 

 and Mr Morley records it from Chippenham Fen. 



There are several interesting Longicornes, which are found 

 in the fens. Aromia moschata, the well-known " Musk 

 Beetle," is found about willows at Wicken, and a few years 

 back it was common at Upware. The large Saperda carcharias 

 is plentiful on poplars at Wicken, and also used to be frequent 

 at Upware. Agapanthia Imeatocollis is often abundant on 

 thistles at Chippenham Fen, and is, in some years, not un- 

 common at Wicken, where a melanic form occurs at times. 

 The beautiful Oberea oculata, one of the prizes of the coleo- 

 pterist, appears to be confined to Wicken Fen in this country, 

 where it may be found in August on the sallow bushes ; it was 

 plentiful in 1898. 



