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" Juncus glomeratus. 



" Dr. Bioiufield frequently found, attached to the handles of seed-vessels, whitish 

 cases in which the larva; of some species of Coleophora had lived, and from which the 

 moths had hatched about the third week in August, but most of them produced a mi- 

 nute dark green parasite of the family Chalcididae, which prevented my ascertaining 

 the name of the moth : possibly it is the Porrectaria leucapennis of Haworth, or the 

 Coleophora caspititiella of Zeller. 



" Artemisia maritima. Sea Wormwood. 



" At the end of September, 1852, 1 bred from this plant two specimens of a minute 

 Cecidomyia ? and a still smaller Entedon. 



" Pistacia Lentiscus. Mastic. 



" During my sojourn at Nice, in Piedmont, in 1850 — 51, I frequently found upon 

 the Pistacia bushes, which grow wild on the rocky hills near Nice and Villafranche, 

 galls attached to the midrib of the leaves, as large as scarlet beau seeds and somewhat 

 of a similar shape : they were very plump, of a pale green colour, more or less rosy 

 from being marbled with red. In the early part of December I opened and examined 

 the contents of these galls, and found them to contain an Eriosoma, very like E. bur- 

 saria, Linn., but larger, and also the pupae of an Agromyza, rather larger than Phy- 

 tomyza lateralis. It was of a cinereous tint, as if dusted with the white powder which 

 enveloped the Eriosoma; the face white; antenna black ; legs ochreous ; the thighs 

 dark, tipped with ochre. I will name this provisionally Agromyza Pistacise. A 

 Pteromalus also issued from the galls, no doubt a parasite of the fly. 



" I once saw, on a lawn at Wilton, the larva of some genus of this family carrying 

 off an earthworm several times its own length ; and last May a gentleman near London 

 caught a similar larva holding fast to a worm by its strong mandibles. 



" After heavy rains I have observed the Carabus glabratus. Fab., on the mountains 

 in Yorkshire, emerge from their hiding-places and seize earthworms in their jaws, 

 running oif with them readily enough. 



" The following species have been observed or reared from the larvae by F. J, 

 Graham, Esq., F.L.S. : — 



" Helobia brevicoUis, Fab. In turnip-fields, where the larvae form cells about two 

 inches below the surface, communicating with the surface by a vertical shaft. 



" Malachius bipustulatus, Linn. Bred from an ash slump. It has also been 

 reared from the stalks of an Echium by M. Vallot; and M. ajneus, Linn., has been 

 obtained by M. Perris from stubble, where it undergoes its transformations. The larvae 

 are carnivorous. 



" Elater longicollis. Fab. Reared from a pupa found in his garden at Cranford. 

 The exuvia of the larva exhibits a structure of the tail somewhat like that of E. mu- 

 rinus ? viz., with a denticulated margin and two horny processes at the apex. 



