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we generally find that its relations, C. hortensis, C. viola- 
ceus, &c., are lovers of the night rather than of sunshine, for 
we often meet with ground-beetles when sugaring for Lepi- 
doptera. Not being a collector of Coleoptera, I need hardly 
state that Lam unacquainted with the habits of the lovely 
creatures included in that order.—G. B. Corbin. 
Aphilothrix Radicis.—After Mayr’s translated description 
of the gall of this species, Mr. Walker says, “ This insect has 
not been found in England,” &c. This J think must have 
been an oversight, as Mr. Marshall includes it in his descrip- 
tions of British Cynipide (Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. iv. p. 7); also 
Mr. Miiller, in his list of British gall-insects (Ent. Ann. 1872, 
p- 6); and I have myself found it at Shirley, in Surrey, and at 
Rayleigh, in Essex. I believe it to be generally distributed 
were it only looked for.—E. A. Fitch ; Down Hail, Rayleigh, 
Essex, January 3, 1874. 
Hymenoptera reposing.—During the summer I saw what 
I supposed was some species of wild bee attached to the end 
of a blade of grass, and as the weather was dull and the wind 
blowing somewhat briskly it was swayed backwards and 
forwards, and continually buffetted by the surrounding 
herbage, yet it held on firmly, without taking any apparent 
notice of such rough usage, until I attempted to box it, when 
it immediately flew away. 1 believe 1 have seen a record of 
a similar occurrence in some journal, but I forget where. Is 
such a habit of general occurrence, and what is the name of 
the species possessing such a peculiarity, or are there more 
than one? To all appearance the insect seemed asleep when 
I first saw it in its peculiar swinging situation, but as soon as 
I touched the blade of grass with my finger it flew away, 
although I did not disturb it half so much as the wind had 
previously done. I did not see tlie insect settle upon the grass- 
stem, so I cannot say whether it crawls up, or at once settles 
at the point, but it does seem a strange situation for an insect 
to be “rocked to sleep;” but why should I call it strange, 
when the peculiarities and economy of almost every insect 
are so wonderfully interesting. Possibly this habit is well 
known to those who have made the Hymenoptera their 
especial study,—if, indeed, I am right in referring the insect 
I saw to that order,—and who will, I hope, give us a fuller 
account of the insect, or insects, which choose such a position 
