108 | October, 
At Timperley, in July, Orchestes scutellaris; and at the Bollin, out of furze- 
bushes, Saprinus (Gnathonecus) punctulatus, which also occurred at Sale, on baits. 
—T. Moruey, 57, John Street, Pendleton, Manchester, September, 1870. 
Captures of Coleoptera in north Devon.—During the month of August last, I 
discovered localities for the following species, and which I make known for the 
benefit of entomologists who may visit Ilfracombe, or other of the beautiful spots on 
the North Devon Coast. 
Mesites Tardii.—This species was first discovered by Mr. Wollaston in England 
—I believe at Mount Edgcumbe in South Devon, and afterwards at Lynmouth; I 
took a dozen specimens in a decaying sycamore close to Chambercombe Farm, near 
Ilfracombe. In company with them I found Phleophagus wneopiceus. 
Dianéus cerulescens.—This insect was abundant on mossy stones, in the brook, - 
in the valley, about a quarter of a mile beyond Chambercombe Farm, at the 
side of the wood. With it was Stenus Guynemeri.—F. Smiru, British Museum, 
September, 1870. 
Notes on earlier stages of Scotch Phytophaga.—I observed Melasoma (Lina) wnea 
plentifully, both in the larval and pupal condition, on alders in this neighbourhood, 
at the end of last July. The pupa, which was active when touched, was attached 
by the tail to the upper-side of the leaf; the perfect insect appearing in about 
eight days. ; 
I also found Coccinella 16-guttata commonly, in the middle of August, at Luss, 
Loch Lomond, in the same stages as the Lina, on birch. The larva—which is fat, 
yellowish-white, with two orange-yellow raised lines from head to tail, enclosing two 
rows of black spots, a lateral row of similar spots, and rather long prolegs, —begins 
to feed in the middle and not at the edge of the leaf. The pupa is fat, attached as 
in Lina, and, when irritated, jerks up the head, thorax and basal segments of its 
abdomen. It is blackish, its distinct and shield-shaped thorax bearing a triangular 
yellow patch on each side, and its abdomen having two yellow spots on each side of 
the base and three on each side of the apex. The insect remains about twelve days 
in the pupal state.—J. HE. Somervitie, Free Church Manse, Langholm, Dumfries, 
September, 1870. 
Cynips longiventris, Hartig, a species new to the British list.—The hard gall of 
this Cynips is of about the size of a pea, rather flattened, single-celled. Its exterior 
is granulated, the ground colour a more or less dark red, traversed by more or less 
regular concentric rings of a pale yellow or greenish tinge. I have met with it 
for several years past in the months of July, August, and September, on the under- 
side of the leaves of stunted oak-bushes, occurring in hedge rows in this neighbour- 
hood. It is mostly attached to the midrib, and I have never seen more than one 
or two specimens on the same leaf, and they are rather scarce. Hartig says that 
in Germany they are frequent but solitary. 
The insect belongs to Section II of Hartig’s genus Cynips, characterized by 
that author as follows: “ Abdomine apice nudo ;” and to his sub-division A, “‘ abdo- 
nine elongato, ano sub-acuto, seynento primo fere wsque ad apicem prolongato,” 
