158 { December, 
I found larvee feeding from time to time, from May 26th till June 20th, 
and by that time, the more forward specimens had begun to emerge. I have 
seen no indication of a second brood in the year. i 
The full-fed larva is little more than three-eighths of an inch in length, cylindrical, 
though tapering a little behind; the head a trifle smaller than the second seg- 
ment, and rather rounded, greyish-brown in colour and marked with blotches 
of blackish-brown on the lobes and between them, and is very shining; the 
body is pale glaucous-green, and has a very broad dorsal stripe of darker 
bluish-green, through the middle of which runs an exceedingly fine pale thread 
of the ground colour; the thin sub-dorsal line is yellowish-white, and just 
above it is a whitish-grey parallel streak, all these are regularly interrupted at 
seemental divisions, these divisions are somewhat yellow; the spiracles are 
whitish ringed with brown; there is a white wart on the hinder part of the 
side of the third and fourth seements; all the tubercles are whitish, each bear- 
ing little fascicles of about four white silky hairs, curved and finely pointed ; 
the ventral surface and legs a little paler than the rest of the ground 
colour.—W. B. 
The perfect insect is rather sluggish, and retiring in its habits. It is 
pretty common in this neighbourhood, yet, previous to rearing it, I had taken 
but one specimen, and, one afternoon last July, happening to find, in the corner 
of a field, a lot of Artemisia, which had evidently been infested, I spent a 
considerable time in beating, kicking, and trampling the plants and neigh- 
bouring rank weeds before I could compel two specimens to skulk unwillingly 
out from among them. 
Norwich: 11th October, 1871. 
Addition of two species of Oryptophagus to the British list of Coleoptera.—I have 
much pleasure in calling attention to two species of the genus Cryptophagus, which 
have not yet found a place in our British catalogues. Both are described by that 
distinguished entomologist, M. Ch. Brisout de Barneville, in Grenier’s catalogue. 
The first is C. punctipennis, Bris., allied to pilosus, but rather smaller, and readily 
distinguished by the very coarse, and somewhat distant, punctuation of the basal 
portion of the elytra, with are clothed with long outstanding hairs, as well as with 
the usual shorter pubescence. I have found this insect in the fens at Cambridge, 
and on the Braid Hills, Edinburgh, in each case in a kind of open shed used for 
storing straw. It is recorded by M. Brisout as occurring among straw at Paris. 
The second species is C. parallelus, Bris.; an elegant species not to be con- 
founded with any other, by reason of its narrow, elongate, and parallel form ; it is 
also very finely punctured, and clothed with a very fine and very short pubescence. 
This was taken by me at Rannoch some years ago, and I have since found it in 
Scotch fir at the Escorial in Spain, so that it is, no doubt, connected with that 
tree. It is best placed between dentatus and acutangulus. A specimen given by 
me to Mr. Crotch was named parallelus for him by M. Brisout.—D. Suarp, Eccles, 
Thornhill, Dumfries, Nov., 1871. 
Note on the ocewrrence of Anisotoma scita, Er,,in Great Britain.—I have in my 
collection an Anisotoma, ? , taken in flood-refuse near York by Mr. Hutchinson, which 
