256 THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD. 
Kurope. Lalso found the larve of P. cardui in some numbers at the 
same time. They were feeding on a small yellow-flowered plant—one 
of the Compositae, a near relation, I fancy, of the Huropean genus Hiera- 
cium. © The larvee were, of course, contained among spun-up leaves of 
their food-plant. (These bred examples were, as was to be anticipated, 
even smaller than those captured on the wing.)—Herewarp Doman, 
(F.H.8.), Solwezi, Northern Rhodesia. August 20th, 1916. 
New GLAMORGANSHIRE CoLEoprera.—With the hope of making 
additions to the Glamorganshire list of beetles recently published in 
the Trans. Cardiff Nat. Soc., I paid a short visit to the county last 
August, with good results. An asterisk is prefixed to the species 
which are new county records. 
At Pontneathvaughan, on the northern border of the county, I had 
the pleasure of Mr. H. M. Hallett’s company. Several raids on Hormica 
rufa nests produced *Leptacinus formicetorum, Mark, in abundance ; 
* Notothecta flavipes, Gr., scarce; *N. anceps, Kr., one; *Thiasophila 
angulata, Er., common; *Oxypoda formiceticola, Mark, not common ; 
*Ptilium myrmecophilum, All., in one nest only, common ; *Monotoma 
conieicollis, Aub., and *M. formicetorum, Th., both common; Trichius 
fasciatus, L., and Strangalia quadrifasciata, L., occurred on Spiraea 
ulmaria ; *Hydrocyphon deflexicollis, Mull., was not uncommon in river 
shingle ; *Cis villosulus, Marsh, rare in Polyporus on stumps. Wet 
moss in and about the River Perddyn produced the following, most of 
them fairly commonly :—*Homalota currax, Kr., *Ischnopoda caerulea, 
Sahl., *Myllaena minuta, Gr., *Mycetoporus lepidus, Gr. (one only), 
*Quedius umbrinus, Er., *Q. auricomus, Kies., “Stenus guynemeri, Duy., 
* Ancyrophorus aureus, Fauy., *“Lesteva punctata, Hr., and *Geodromicus 
nigrita, Mill. A few *Patrobus assimilis, Chaud., occurred by the 
river, aS well as one specimen each of *“Hydraena atricapilla, and 
*Liodes punctulata, Gyll.—J. R. uz B. Tomuin, Reading. October, 
1916. 
A Nore on EKeyrr.—It occurred to me that the entomological 
items in the enclosed letter I have just received from my friend Sergt. 
Harry Inkson, in Egypt, might make an interesting note. 
«« Anthony and Cleopatra are supposed to have made this place one 
of their favourites, and one can well imagine that they would do so. 
It is on the coast, and the reputed spot is indeed a charming little 
place. A small bay of just sufficient depth for swimming, and the 
water the bluest of the blue, bordered by sand the finest I have seen, 
and then high ground, not exactly a cliff, covered with grape-vines and 
fio-trees. Really a most charmingly pretty spot, and I often go down 
there for a swim and a sprawl on the sands. . . . . There is the old 
town of Matruh, which is now aruin, and some little distance from our 
camp. There are innumerable Death’s-head Moths (Manduca atropos) 
here. It is quite a common occurrence to get half a dozen attracted 
into the tent by the light of an evening. Some of the fellows in the 
regiment have caught them and set them, none too well, I am afraid, 
and are quite proud of their handiwork. The flies are a great nuisance 
here in the day time, luckily they leave us alone at night, or I don’t 
know what would happen if we had twenty-four hours of their per- 
petual teasing. As we wear shorts they crawl up our legs and tickle 
us in a most unpleasant manner.’—JoserpnH Anprrson, Alre Villa, 
Chichester. October 16th. 
