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Horning Fen, in Cambridgeshire ; Retinia duplana of Hiibner, disco- 

 vered by Mr. Bouchard in Scotland, and subsequently bred by Mr. 

 Scott from a bud of the Scotch fir, the locality not recorded ; Argyro- 

 lepia maritimana of Guenee, discovered by Mr. Harding on the coast 

 near Deal; Cleodora striatella of the Vienna Catalogue, taken by Mr. 

 Stainton, at light, on the 11th of August; Coleophora squamosella of 

 Stainton, taken by Mr. Douglas in Headley Lane, near Dorking, in 

 1851; Coleophora siccifoliella of Stainton, the locality unrecorded; 

 Asychna profugella of Zeller, taken by Mr. Winter at Woodlands Manse, 

 Kemsing, Kent, in the third week in July, flying in the sun, over a 

 chalky bank clothed with a variety of vegetation, among which Ori- 

 ganum vulgare and Helianthemum vulgare abounded; Elachistaflavi- 

 comella of Stainton, taken by Mr. Shield, at Howth, in Ireland, on 

 the 15th of July, among grass under brambles ; Nepticula cryptella 

 of Frey, discovered by Mr. Douglas in Headley Lane, by sweeping 

 the grass ; N. betulicola of Stainton, of which Mr. Douglas is also the 

 discoverer, having found the larva? mining the leaves of birch trees, 

 in Headley Lane, in October, 1854; N. continuella of Stainton, bred 

 by Mr. Stainton i'rom larvae found mining the leaves of birch trees, at 

 Levvisham, in September, 1854 ; N. alnetella, bred by Mr. Stainton from 

 larva) found mining the leaves of the alder, near Beckenham, in Kent, 

 in October, 1854, and found also by Mr. Thomas Law, of Darlington ; 

 Pterophorus Zetterstedtii of Zeller, discovered by Mr. Boyd at Lyn- 

 mouth. North Devon; and P. plagiodactylus, taken in Wales by Mr. 

 S. C. Gregson, in July, 1853, taken also in Cumberland in 1855. 

 In Coleoptera we have but one addition noticed, Dyschirius elonga- 

 lulus of Dawson, discovered by Mr. Syme, in April, 1855, on a damp 

 spot of ground near Sandown Castle, Deal, beneath stones, and in 

 company with a number of D. salinus. Mr. Janson enumerates and 

 classifies the captures in Coleoptera already noticed, and on the other 

 hand adduces reasons for erasing six species from the British list: 

 these are Myrmedonia funesta of Gravenhoi'st, Pella funesta of Ste- 

 phens, Gymnusa brevicollis of Paykul, Euryporus picipes of Paykul, 

 Stenus a^mulus of Erichson, and S. vafellus of Erichson. In Hy- 

 raenoptera we have two additions : Pompilus notatus, separated by 

 Wesmael from P. exaltatus ; and Mimesa Dahlbomi of Wesmael, 

 separated by Mr. Smith from the series of Mimesa unicolor in the 

 Stephensian cabinet. 



