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note by Mr. South, in which he relates his first acquaintance with 

 this lepidopterous rarity {Entom., xxi. pp. 279, 319). 



Hadejia albifusa, Grote, was taken at sugar by Major Partridge, 

 on the night of August 15th, in the Isle of Portland ; it is just possible 

 that it escaped from some passing vessel from America ; while it is 

 equally possible that it may have been reared on the spot {Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., XXV. p. 180). 



Coleoptera. 



In this order we have only one species to add to our British 

 list ; but several of our rarer species have been met with. 



Adrastits pusillus, Fabr., Candz : Mr. E. A. Waterhouse, one 

 of our own members, has the honour of adding this interesting 

 species to our list ; it was taken by sweeping grass near Sandwich, 

 and although not before recorded as British, is apparently common 

 all over the rest of Europe iyEiit. Mo. Mag., xxv. p. 133). 



Quedius longicornis, Kr., one of our rarest Coleoptera, ha 

 been taken by another of our members, the Rev. W. W. Fowler, 

 who captured it under a tree trunk, in Bretby Wood, near Burton- 

 on-Trent ; this being the second recorded capture in England — Mr. 

 Blatch having taken the same species in Buddon Wood, Leicester- 

 shire {E7it. Mo. Mag., xxiv. p. 232). 



Perileptus areolatus, Creutz, another of our rare and minute 

 Geodephaga, has been taken on the banks of the Dee by Dr. Ellis 

 and Mr. R. Wilding {Ent. Mo. Mag., xxv. p. 37). 



Strajigalia auruleiita, F., several specimens of this scarce and 

 handsome longicorn were captured by our Vice-President, Mr. Car- 

 rington, in the neighbourhood of Great Berkhampstead, amongst 

 the flowers of Scabiosa arvensis {Entom., xxi. p. 213). 



Harpalus cupreus, Steph., of the Geodephaga, Leptusa testacea, 

 Bris., among Staphylinidse, and Cathormiocerus mariti/mis,^ye, among 

 the Rhynchophora. all of them scarce if not rarities, were exhibited 

 at the Entomological Society's Meeting, on September 5th, 1888, 

 by one of our very oldest members, Mr. Champion, and cap- 

 tured by him at Sandown Bay, Isle of Wight {Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 xxv. pp. 117, 133). 



Hymenoptera. 



To our list of British species several notable additions have been 

 made, as well as some of the rarer species being met with. In the 



