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Notes on the larva of Ephestia elutella, Haw. — Having had an opportunity 

 of seeing a great number of larvae of this species doing considerable damage to 

 biscuits, it may be of interest to give a description and an outline of its life- 

 history. The larva tapers towards the head, colour brownish-white ; head, plate 

 on 2nd segment, and spots (or rather dots), brown ; two dots on 2nd segment below 

 the plate, four on the 3rd and 4th, six on 5th to 11th, three spots on 12th, and one 

 on the 13th, the last four I designated as spots because they are three or four times 

 larger than the others. The two dots on the 3rd and 11th segments below the sub- 

 dorsal line are surrounded with a brown ring ; all the dots bear a light coloured 

 bristle, almost white, about 1 mm. in length ; mouth black. The small round 

 spiracles are brown, also the claspers. Below the spiracles a row of dots, having 

 one and sometimes two bristles, and two smaller dots with bristles close to the 

 ventral region. They left their food (biscuits) in the middle of October, and 

 wandered about until they had secured a place to their liking, crevice or crack in the 

 wall or in the folds of the biscuit bags, or any hiding place, when they spun them- 

 selves up a slight cocoon, therein they lay dormant until about April, when they 

 changed to pupae. The perfect insects came out the following month. — Or. C. 

 BiaNELL, Stonehouse, Plymouth : July \st, 1894. 



Aleochara marulata, Bris.,at Ouildford. — Amongst the StaphylinidcB captured 

 by me at G-uildford on May 15th {cf. ante, p. 135) were two specimens of an 

 Aleochara which I set aside for further examination. These now prove to be 

 A. maculata, Bris., an insect hitherto unique as British, the original specimen of 

 which was obtained by the E,ev. H. S. Gorham on the banks of the Lyn, in North 

 Devon, and recorded by him many years ago in this Magazine {of. vol. v, p. 136). 

 I am indebted to M. Fauvel for comparing one of my examples with Brisout's types, 

 which were fromYernet and Paris. — Q-. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking : Jw^y, 1894. 



Thermohia furnorum at Hastings. — A few days ago I received some miscel- 

 laneous insects, &c., from Hastings to determine ; in the box were two specimens of 

 this species, and on Wednesday last I saw about half a dozen alive and uninjured 

 in a small shallow jam pot covered with glass, so that they could be examined at 

 leisure. They came from the kitchen of the private house of a gentleman on the 

 West Hill at Hastings. His theory as to their introduction is this : — He bouglit a 

 sack of Hungarian flour, which was placed in the kitchen ; before this tliey had not 

 seen the " fire brats," now they must be fairly plentiful in that house. Of course, 

 this is very likely to be a case of " Post hoc," not " Propter hoc." The Hungarian 

 flour may have had nothing to do with the introduction of the Thermobia. I 

 thought you would be sure to like to know of the occurrence. — E. N. Bloomfield, 

 Guestling Kectory, Hastings : June 22th, 1894. 



Adicella filicornis, Pict., in the New Forest. — Amongst the contents of my 

 collecting bottle during a few days' stay (June 16th — 20th) at Brockenhurst, in com- 

 pany with Dr. Sharp and Mr. Champion, I found one female of this little longicorn 

 Trichopteron, a species which, so far as I am aware, had hitherto only been known 

 as British from specimens found in the Clyde Valley. I am unable to give the 

 precise locality, but the only place visited at all likely to pi-oducu it was a portion of 



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