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above the usual high-water mark. The plebeian Cercyon littoralis and Philonthus 
ezantholoma swarmed with it. My own impression as to my original specimen (for 
it was taken long before I gave any attention to the Brachelytra) has always been 
that it was taken on the shores of the Thames, below Gravesend: and also that 
my friend, Mr. G. Lewis (now in Japan), had more of it in his collection.—Ip. 
Note on the earlier stages of Hypera polygont.—At Brandon, last summer, I 
noticed that many shoots of Lychnis vespertina were prevented from growing, and 
formed into pseudo-galls, resembling great buds three or four inches long, the 
leaves being all thickened and turned in at the tips. Some of these I secured for 
my friend, Mr. H. W. Kidd; and, happening to open one of them, saw plenty of 
the minute orange-coloured larve of a Cecidomyia, and two larve sufficiently like 
those of internal-feeding Lepidoptera to deceive me, especially as I took care not to 
disturb them, but closed up the gall and put it into a tin box. A few days after, I 
noticed that they had formed curivus globular cocoons of silken net-work; if I 
recollect rightly, outside the gall; and some time afterwards a specimen of. Hypera 
polygoni emerged from each. There were three of them, one larva being over- 
looked at first. They were, I think, eating the substance of the leaves forming the 
gall. The ceconomy of this species is, J am aware, already recorded; but the plant 
affected in this instance is so much at variance with that from which the insect 
takes its name, that these notes may not be altogether uninteresting. 
The following rough description of the larva was made at the time :— 
“Wrinkled, thickest in the middle, flattened beneath; bluish-green, dorsal 
“vessel pale yellow, spiracular line and feet yellow; head black, very small. 
“ Length about half an inch.”—Cuarues G. Barrert, 5, Heigham Road, Norwich, 
8th December, 1871. 
Note on Ceuthorhynchideus Chevrolatit.—As bearing upon the question whether 
specific value is to be correctly attributed to this insect, I may note that during the 
past summer I have found it on the slope of the 8. E. Railway bank, between Ash- 
ford and Hythe Stations, in some small quantity, but in an exceedingly restricted 
space. Sporadic individuals have also occurred to me in other parts of this neigh- 
bourhood.—W. TYLDEN, Stanford, Hythe, December, 1871. 
Note on habitat of Atomaria jfimetarii—The name. of the fungus in which I 
found this species (see p. 160 of the present vol.) is Coprinus comatus. It is 
generally distributed, but found most plentifully in burying grounds, growing in 
abundance in those of Chelsea Hospital; and should be looked for in August and 
September.—H. Hurcurnson, 21, St. Anne’s Street, Cemetery Road, York. 
Instances of the sudden and unaccountable disappearance of particular species of 
insects.—In the beginning of June, 1867, I found Gonioctena pallida here, together 
with a green larva, which I supposed to be the larva of that insect, abundantly, 
upon a row of hazel bushes ; in the next year the beetle did not appear till October, 
and I have never found it or its larva again, although I have tried at all times of 
the year for it during 1869, 1870, and 1871. Orsodacna cerasi, also to be found 
