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the plates to vol. ii of that work. The same may be said of Lucina fasciata, Mg., 

 which I have received from G-uernsey, as mentioned above. — E. N. Bloomfield, 

 Guestling Rectory : April, 1 898. 



Scolopostethus grandis, Horv., at Tunbridge Wells. — I found about a dozen of 

 this species on Easter Monday among dead leaves on Rusthall Common ; all but one 

 female were brachypterous. It is in all probability not uncommon, but I have only 

 met with it previously on one occasion near Woking and once at Chobham. It is 

 darker than the common affinis and somewhat larger, and I rather hoped at first 

 that I was catching S. pilosus, Reut., a species which has not yet occurred in this 

 country, but I was undeceived as soon as I was able to examine them at home. 

 S. pilosus should be looked for, as it occurs in Sweden and France, and may very 

 probably turn up here. It is like the other forms in general colour and pattern, but 

 rather duller than most of them, and with distinct projecting hairs on the pronotum 

 and elytra ; the raesosternum has no tubercles in front of the intermediate coxae. I 

 believe it is found amongst dead leaves, &c. — Edward Saundeks, St. Ann's, 

 Woking : Mat/ Uth, 1898. 



AcantkicB on tame rabbits. — Mr. C. W. Dale writes to me — " Do you know that 

 Kirby and Spence in their introduction to Entomology mention a Cimex being 

 attached to tame rabbits. I have never heard of such ; have you ?" The passage 

 referred to is at p. 89 (7th ed.), and is as follows : — " Our domestic rabbits some- 

 times swarm with the bed-bug. This was the case with some kept by two young 

 gentlemen at my house last summer to such a degree, that I found it necessary to 

 have them killed." Well, I had marked this in the margin of my copy of the book 

 with a !, and my wonder has not become less during the more than forty years that 

 have elapsed since. At the time the passage was written there was but one species 

 of Cimex {A. lectularia) known, and its ubiquitous tramps abroad and at home 

 did not seem wonderful. But now that (the said power of travel not being im- 

 paired) several species of the genus, each specially attached to other creatures than 

 man are known, it appears to me to be doubtful if the species referred to, as stated, 

 was really A. lectularia, this idea being strengthened by the remark of Kirby and 

 Spence, at p. 87 previous, that " pigeons often swarm with the bed-bug," that kind 

 being now well known to be the distinct A. columbaria, Jenyns. The investigation 

 of the identity or dissimilarity of AcanthicB infesting different animals is not inviting 

 to the unscientific mind, and considering that by the class of persons who would 

 have the greatest chance of observing them in nature the insects would at once be 

 put beyond the power of scientific observers, it is not wonderful that so few dis- 

 coveries in this direction have been made. Perhaps, now that attention to the 

 subject is being awakened, some endeavours may be made to determine in some 

 degree how many more species of Acanthla are still awaiting the distinction of being 

 called up and named. — J. W. Douglas, 153, Lewisham Ed., S.E. : May IBth, 1898. 



Aphodii in the burrows of Geotrupes. — A-proT^os of Mr. E. J. Burgess Sopp's 

 note on the habits of Aphodius {Septaulacus) testudinarius {ante p. 114), it may be 

 worth while to call attention to Dr. T. A. Chapman's record of Aphodius porous 

 ovipositing in the burrows of Geotrupes stercorarius (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., v, p. 273, 

 and vi, p. 230).— G-. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking: Mat/ 10th, 1898. 



