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here ; it makes a blackish-brown cocoon inside the well-known straw-coloured outer 

 covering of Zygcena cocoons, and is closely adherent to its inner surface. — John B. 

 Bbidgman, Norwich : November, 1888. 



Callicera cenea. — While I suppose among Lepidopterists the year 1888 will be 

 known as the " Galii" year, so among Dipterists I think it must rank as the 

 " Callicera " year, as in twenty-two years' collecting I had never heard of a specimen 

 being caught in England, except the one mentioned by Walker as caught at Peters- 

 field, Hants., until (1) the Rev. E. N. Bloomfield caught a 5 (now by his kindness 

 in my collection) at Guestling, near Hastings ; (2) the Rev. T. A. Marshall caught 

 a specimen (which I have seen) at Cornworthy, near Totnes ; and (3) I have heard 

 from Dr. Capron of a specimen taken by a Coleopterist (I am sorry I cannot quite 

 decipher his locality). 



As to Deilephila galii, I have heard of one amateur entomologist taking nine 

 larvae almost in the town. — Gr. H. Veeball, Sussex Lodge, Newmarket : Dee., 1888. 



Colorado Coleoptera. — A short time ago, I went through a miscellaneous lot of 

 Coleoptera collected in Western Custer Co. (mostly at 8400 feet alt.) this season, 

 and sent a large selection to Dr. John Hamilton for examination. Among them he 

 finds three more species apparently new for Colorado, viz., Tachycellus badiipennis, 

 (Edionychis lugens, and Paratenetus fuscus, Lee, the last he says is also found at 

 Allegheny, Pennsylvania. I am also able to make an interesting addition to my list 

 of species common to Europe and Colorado, viz., Hylotmpes bajulus, L. Other 

 interesting additions to the Custer Co. list found in this consignment are Notiophilus 

 sibirious, Motsch. (found also in Labrador and in' the Eastern States), Coccinella 

 sanguinea, L., Sister depurator , Say, Diplotaxis Haydeni, Leptura subargentata, 

 Kirby, Oraptodera foliacea, Lee, Phyllotreia albionica, Lee, Lepidophorus lineati- 

 collis, Kirby, Ceuthorhynchus, " n. sp., but in many collections," Paris transversa, 

 &c. A water beetle from the Hardscrabble district, which was supposed to be Ilybius 

 picipes, now proves to be Agabus tristis, Aube, and apparently new for Colorado. — 

 T. D. A. Cockebell, West Cliff, Custer Co., Colorado : October 17th, 1888. 



Another ash-flower-gall inquiline. — The larvae of many insects live in galls 

 made by other insects or by mites, as the cauliflower ash-gall. In the September 

 number of this Magazine for this year, Dr. Chapman records the occurrence of 

 the larvae of the little moth Prays Curtisellus, var. rustica, in this gall ; and in 

 the same number I described the little Cecid Diplosis fraxinella, bred from larvae 

 also found by Dr. Chapman in the same. I now beg to call attention to the larvse 

 of another fly, two of which were discovered by Dr. Chapman as well, in the same 

 retreat, and were kindly transmitted by him to me in the pupa state hi May last. 

 Erom one of these an imago of Chyliza leptogaster, Pz. (a little fly belonging to the 

 Psilidce) escaped on the 4th June following. Schiner* records that this species has 

 also been bred by Scholtz, from galls formed in the stalks of Spiraa opulifolia. 

 Scholtz did not state, however, whether this insect was the gall maker, so, in all 

 probability, it was only an inquiline in that gall as well as in the ash-gall. I have 

 recorded this occurrence, as any fact bearing upon the life-history of insects is of 

 interest.— R. H. MEADE; Bradford : November 22nd, 1888. 

 * Fauna Austriaca Diptera, vol. ii, p. 200. 



