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the salt marsh under seaweed, rubbish, &c. ; it is a puzzle to me what it usually 

 feeds on. Scymnus nigrinus and JExochomus i-pusiulatus (e). The following com- 

 plete the named Clavicornia, except the very commonest species : — Nitidula bipus- 

 tulata (d), Upurcea parvula (e), Parnus proUfericornis and auriculatus in the Moy 

 burn, Heterocerus flexuosus or femoralis {b), Elmis Vblkmari, ceneus and parallelo- 

 pipedus ; Hydrcsna nigrita, gracilis, atricapilla, and pulchella (?) ; also Laccobius 

 minutus and nigriceps ; (in the burn or refuse) OcMhebius exsculptus and pygmaus ; 

 Corticaria umbilicata,fulva, denticulata, punctulata and serrata (?), (e) ; Cerylon 

 angustatum (e) ; Shizophagus depressus (e) ; CryptopJiagus piibescens (in nest of 

 Vespa vulgaris), pilostis, setulosus, and (I believe) punctipennis ; C. bicolor and 

 dentatus — one of the specimens referred to this species by a good authority is quite 

 unlike any Cryptophagus I have ever seen, having the elytra wider than the thorax, 

 like Paramecosoma, and being much larger ; Paramecosoma melanocephalum (all e) ; 

 Cytilus varius (pupa), Simplocaria semistriata. — A. J. Chitty, 33, Queen's Gate 

 Gardens, S.W. : December I3th, 1892. 



JTydroporus obsoletus, Aube, at Marlborough. — Among some beetles sent to me 

 for determination from Marlborough, was a specimen of this rare Hydroporus. Mr. 

 E. Meyrick, who captured the specimen, has sent me the following note regarding it : — 



" As this specimen was taken by myself, you may like to know the peculiar 

 circumstances under which it occurred. I found it (alive) in my bath water, which 

 was pumped up from a pump communicating with a closed well in the basement of 

 my house in this town (centre of town) ; the well is completely enclosed inside the 

 house, and flagged in. The water rises in the chalk, and there is no stream or 

 surface spring anywhere in the neighbourhood. There were two specimens on two 

 consecutive mornings ; the first I unfoi*tunately neglected, thinking it must have got 

 in by accident, but when I saw the second, I was convinced it really came from the 

 well, and captured it for the curiosity of its origin, on the chance that it might be 

 something peculiar. No other creature has ever come up in the water, which (al- 

 though, as I say, in the town) is pure and wholesome, and perfectly clear." 



The beetle was first noticed as British by Dr. Power, who captured it at Balmuto 

 (Fifeshire), "one or two specimens at a time, in a small pool in a burn after a 

 storm," and who, thinking it a new species, named it H. Ashivorthii. Dr. Sharp 

 captured it in the Solway district, and states that its occurrence in Britain at all is 

 strange, as it is a native of Syria and South Eastern Europe, and it has also been 

 taken in North Wales, Yorkshire, and Northumberland. The capture of the insect 

 at Marlborough is interesting, as affording the first record of its occurrence in a 

 southern county. — W. W. FoWLBE, Lincoln : February IQth, 1893. 



The CoccidcB of a guava tree. — It is surprising how many species of Coccidce 

 may sometimes be found on a single tree in Jamaica. On January 15th I found the 

 following eight all on one guava tree (Psidium) in Kingston : — -1. Lecanium olea, 

 Bern., several on the twigs. 2. L. hemisphcericum, Targ., on under-side of leaves. 

 3. Vinsonia stellifera, Westw., one scale on under-side of a leaf. 4. Pulvinaria 

 cupanice, Ckll. MS., on upper- and under-side of leaves ; ovisacs showing cecid 

 puparia projecting ; immature scales attended by a black ant with a reddish face. 

 5. Aspidiotus articulatus, Morg., on upper-side of leaf. 6. A. personatus, Oomst., 

 on both sides of leaves. 7. A.ficus, Riley, a young one on under-side, and an adult 



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