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corroborated those writers' observations. Dr. Power has 

 also found the larvfB (apjDarently) of Anthej-ophagus pallens 

 in wild-bees' nests. 



Other points of beetle economy worthy of record are the 

 breeding of jEJros affinis by Mr. J. Ray Hardy, of Hulme, 

 from larvEe much resembling those of E. Aurora, found in 

 Sherwood Forest; the capture of the very rare Meloe rugosa 

 by Mr. F. Smith, in grass near the nests of AnthophorOy 

 near Prittlewell, Essex, in October; the determination by 

 the Rev. W. Tylden of Cardamine pratensis as the food- 

 plant of the Ceuthorhynchus that has been recorded as 

 suturelluSf Gyll. ; and of Stachys arveitsis, one of the La- 

 hiat<^j instead of the accustomed Cruciferce, as the food- 

 plant of Ceuthorhynchus viduatus, by Mr. Hislop ; the 

 detection by Mr. J. Scott, near Lee, of several of the elegant 

 Ceuthorhynchideus Chevrolatii, Bris., M.S., always at the 

 roots of Achillea millefolium, — which, if that be found to be 

 its permanent food-plant, would go far to prove the insect 

 distinct from troglodytes, as the latter, with its satellites, 

 frontalis and Dan'soni {^pygmceus, olim), seems always to 

 affect species of Plantago ; the capture by Dr. Power of 

 Baridius lepidii on turnips, growing wild at Hammersmith 

 in April,— of Sibynes potentillcB on Spergula arvensis, at 

 Esher, Horsell, Wimbledon and Birch Wood, — of Plec- 

 troscelis confusa, near Esher, in September, in such a situa- 

 tion as to lead to the conviction that its food-plant is Snlix 

 herhacea, — oi Phratora cavifrons,T[iom?,., at Esher, Cowley 

 and Darenth, similarly connected with Populus nigra., — and 

 of Apion scutellare on Tormentilla erecta ; and the rearing 

 of Saperda scalaris from alder by Mr. J. Chappell, and 

 from oak by Mr. J. Kidson Taylor. Zetterstedt remarks 

 that it occurs on Betida alba (I found it at Rannoch on 

 Alnus glutinosa), and adds an interesting note that Lapland 

 specimens of it are always covered with ashy-white instead 



