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a few each of Nemeophila plantaginis, Carsia imbutata, Coenonympha 

 typhon var, rothliebii (worn), Ebulea crocealis, Phibalocera quercana and 

 Crambiis cuhnelliis. — W. G. Clutten, 132, Coal Clough Lane, Burnley. 

 March 25th, 1906. 



:igiOTES ON LIFE-HISTORIES, LARY^, &c. 



The foodplant of Melit^ea maturna. — In answer to Mr. W. H. 

 St. Quintin's enquiry (antea, p. 80), I am able to inform him that eggs 

 of Melitaea maturna laid upon the underside of the leaves of ash 

 [Fraxinus excelsior) emerged on June 16th, The larvaB were placed on 

 an ash-plant, when they spun small silken webs, gnawed the 

 epidermis from the leaves, so that only the framework remained ; they 

 then attacked a fresh leaf, continuing to eat in the same manner. On 

 examining the bush, on which they were feeding, on August 29th, they 

 seemed to have disappeared, but after a little search, they were dis- 

 covered collected near the root of the bush, and hidden under the grass 

 there. They were then about half-grown, and hybernated in this 

 manner. — M. Gillmee, Anhalt, Cothen. March llth, 1906. 



@^OLEOPTERA. 



Oarida affinis, Pk., an addition to the British list.— I have just 

 had the pleasure of reading the admirable vice-presidential address 

 delivered by Mr. Donisthbrpe before the Lancashire and Cheshire 

 Entomological Society in December last. I notice that in the list he 

 gives of the additions made in 1905 to our coleopterous fauna, there is 

 a record of the capture of Carida affinis, Pk., by Colonel Yerbury, at 

 Aviemore, as I cannot find any notice of this interesting capture in 

 any of our entomological journals, I think it is desirable to draw 

 attention to it, in the hope that coleopterists working in the Highlands 

 this summer may again turn it up. — T. Hudson Beaee, F.E.S., 10, 

 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh. March 16th, 1906. 



Notes on Scottish goleoptera. — A three months' absence from 

 home during my trip with the British Association in South and East 

 Africa, cut down my collecting in 1905 to very small limits, but the 

 following captures are worth putting on record : On May 6th, at 

 Hawthornden, the following were swept oft' herbage in the glen of the 

 Esk — Glinocara tetratoma, Th., Trypodeyidron domesticum, Jj., Phytobius 

 i-tuberculatus, F., and Eusphalerum primulae, Steph. On May 13th, 

 at Gorsbridge, I beat off birches and sallows — Coeliodes quercus, F., 

 Phytobius 4:-tuberculatus, F., and Malthodes tibulatus, Kies. On June 

 6th, Grypidius equiseti, F,, was swept sparingly oft" a clump of Equisetum 

 growing under a hedge near Linlithgow. — Ibid. 



SOCIETIES. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomologioal Society. — March 19th, 

 1906. — Mioro-lepidoptera of the Liverpool district. —Mr. Mansbridge 

 read a paper on this subject, dealing, amongst other species, with 



(1) Myelois ceratoniae, its aJo. jxryerella, Siad an intermediate form; these 

 had been bred from larvEe found in dates purchased in Liverpool. 



(2) Dioryctria abietella, a very dark form captured in Delamere Forest. 

 (8) Peronea permutana, bred from Wallasey larvae. Semasia wceberiana. 



