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of an opposite force. If an unshapen mass of clay were before me, 
and I by scraping or cutting removed externally all superfluous por- 
tions, I should produce an hexagonal body by another process. If, 
on the other hand, I were to use the clay, trowel in hand, I could 
build an hexagonal tube by another mode of operation: the single 
band and the single wasp are alike capable of such construction ; and 
this, I contend, is the mode of operation adopted by a number of 
individuals in the nests of many species of wasps. 
FREDERICK SMITH. 
New Locality for Claviger foveolatus—This peculiar insect appears to be not 
uncommon in the neighbourhood of Weymouth, where I discovered it on the 10th of 
April, in the nests of Formica flava, beneath stones on the Chesil Bank; and again, 
under the same circumstances, in the Valley of Friar Wooton, a place where the 
annual Dorsetshire Steeple-chases are held—G. F. Mathews; H.M.S. Warrior, 
May 4, 1864. 
Beetles in a Boat-house-—On Monday, the 14th of March, I accompanied my 
friend Mr. Thomas Nash, exhibitioner of Balliol, for a row on the floods, which, as all 
Oxonians know, covered the low-land for miles round at that time. My. friend’s 
ostensible object was fern-collecting—my own, entomologizing. The Editor of the 
‘ Zoologist,’ being a savant in both pursuits, may wonder why we should choose such a 
method: probably our inclination for a row was the real explanation. The row in 
question, however, proved no joke, and had it not been for the powerful arm and 
experienced boatmanship of my friend, these lines would probably never have been 
penned. By strenuous efforts, our boat was driven into a boat-house while we rested 
from our exertions. The result of this movement was the capture of a great number 
of beetles, which had evidently been driven from the land to shelter in the boat-house. 
Many small Staphs (Aleocharide, &c.), were everywhere to be found: unfortunately 
those which escaped the voracity of their own kind, and were transmitted to my friend 
Mr. T. Blackburn, from whom I received the names, were but a very limited number, 
and all the smallest things seemed to have disappeared. This I must, I am afraid, 
attribute to my own mismanagement. The survivors were as fullows:—Aphodius 
fimetarius, A. prodromus, Agriotes lineatus, Pterostichus cupreus, P. strenuus, Pederus 
littoralis, Xantholinus punctulatus, Lathrobium elongatum, Tachyporus Hypnorum, 
Stenus brunnipes? S. ater? besides some Bembidia, not yet named.—£#. M. Geldart ; 
Rose Hill, Bowdon, March 23, 1864. 
Scent of Civindela campestris—Mr. Norman states (Zool. 8997), in answer to an 
inquiry of Mr. Archer, that he has never observed the scent of roses emitted by 
Cicindela campestris in this country, although he has in Germany. I have never 
noticed this scent when capturing specimens, but when killing them by means of 
boiling water have perceived a strong, though momentary, perfume, more resembling 
verbena than roses, in my opinion.— William Ingall; 4, Albany Road, Camberwell, 
April 7, 1864. 
