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During the year some few additions have been made to 

 the British Insect Fauna, from which I note the following : — 

 Coleoptera : — 



Eucnemis capucina, Ahr, was exhibited at the Entomological 

 Society's meeting on July yth, by Rev. H. S. Gorham. The 

 specimens were discovered, in June last, in an old beech tree in 

 the New Forest. ("Proc. Ent. Soc," 1886, xxx.) 



La7igelandiajx7iophthalma^ Aube., was first taken by Mr. Theodore 

 Wood, at St. Peter's, Kent, in May last, where he found it in some 

 numbers in decaying seed potatoes ("Ent. Mo. Mag.'' xxiii. 93), and 

 specimens were exhibited at the Entomological Society's meeting on 

 August 4th. ("Proc. Ent. Soc," 1886, xxxvii.) 



Afichomenus sahlbergi, Chaud. At page 264, vol. xxii., "Ent. 

 Mo. Mag.," the Rev. W. W. Fowler describes this species from 

 three specimens taken by Mr. Henderson on the banks of the 

 Clyde, below Glasgow, about twenty years ago ; it had not before 

 been found in Europe. 



Lepidoptera : — 



Botys repandalis, Schiff. Mr. C. G. Barrett, in the " Ent. Mo. 

 Mag.'' xxhi. 145, identifies as this species some Pyrales bred some 

 time since by Rev. Henry Burney, from larvae found feeding in 

 the heads and young shoots of Verhasmm nignnn on the south coast 

 of Devon. To quote Mr. Barrett's words, "This species is a 

 welcome and extremely interesting addition to the British Fauna." 



Two species are contributed by Mr. John H.Wood of Tarrington, 

 Ledbury, viz. : — 



Liihocolletis distentella, H,-S., and Nepticula desperatella, Frey, 

 bred from larvse mining in the leaves respectively of oak and wild 

 apple (" Ent. Mo. Mag." xxii. 261 ; xxiii. 188). 



Heydenia auromaailata, Frey, a species closely resembling 

 (Ecophora fulvigiittella, Zell.^ is recorded by Mr. C. G. Barrett, 

 as having been taken in Shetland some time since, but not previously 

 identified (" Ent. Mo. Mag." xxiii. 13). 



Cateremna terebrella, Zk., has been bred by Lord Walsingham 

 from larvae found in small aborted cones of Abies Douglasii, near 

 Thetford, Norfolk ("Ent. Mo. Mag." xxiii. 82). 



Cosmopfetyx Scht?iidtena, Frey, is recorded by Mn W. H. B. 

 Fletcher as having been found by him in the larval state in leaves 



