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of recorded examples is exceedingly small, and I know of no capture for many years. 

 Ps. quadrimaculatus, Latr., is almost in the sanae case, although it is most certainly 

 gregarious when and where it does occur. Much and interesting was once written 

 upon the " population of an old pear tree." Much and interesting could be written 

 on the denizens of an old tuft of mistletoe. — E. McLachlan, Lewisham, London : 

 December, 1889. 



Limnophilus hirsutus in abundance at sugar in Norfolk. — During a visit to the 

 Norfolk coast in August last, I found Limnophilus hirsutus in great abundance in 

 one spot close to Old Hunstanton. It occurred about a pond of beautifully clear 

 water, but thickly overgrown with aquatic plants, and into which slowly ran an 

 equally clear stream. A row of posts along the side of this pond came in the range 

 of my sugaring operations, and the sugar here proved infinitely more attractive to 

 the Limnophilus than to the Lepidoptera for whose benefit it had been applied. 

 Hundreds of Limnophilus hirsutus might easily have been boxed off the sugared 

 posts and the rushes growing near, had they been wanted. The only other 2Vi- 

 choptera noticed about this pond were Colpotaulius incisus and TricBnodes bicolor, 

 both of which were rare. Limnophilus affinis occurred in abundance about a pond 

 between Hunstanton and Ucacham, and sparingly on rushes, &c., in the Holme 

 Saltmarshes ; in the last mentioned locality L. marmoratus also occurred. — Geo. T. 

 PoEEiTT, Huddersfield : November 4th, 1889. 



Localities of some rare British insects. — Perilissus erythrocephalus, Grav. (cf. 

 J. B. Bridgnian, Further Additions to Rev. T. A. Marshall's Catalogue of British 

 Ichneumonida:), Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1889, pt. iii, p. 483. — I took two specimens 

 of the above at Glanvilles Wootton on July 30th, 1888. 



Hemiteles longicauda, Thoms. {lib. cit., p. 417). — Two specimens of this species 

 were taken by me at Bournemouth in April, 1867. 



Proterops nigripennis, Westw. — My specimens of this great rarity were taken 

 in Parley Copse, Dorset, on August 20th, 1834. 



Amphipectus Dahlbomii. — Also taken by my father at Knighton Heath, Dorset, 

 July 28th, 1841. 



Gomphocerus rufus, Linn. — In addition to the localities mentioned by Mr. 

 Eland Shaw, I may name Battersea Fields, where it was taken by Samouelle, and 

 Lyndhurst, New Forest, where my father met with it on August 12th, 1827, and 

 October Ist, 1830. 



3Iecostethus grossus, liinn. — This fine grasshopper is by no means rare, although 

 local, frequenting boggy heaths in Hampshire and Dorsetsliire, and also Whittlesea 

 Mere and Bardulph Fen. 



CEdipoda caerulescens, Linn. — I have specimens of this from Guernsey. It has 

 been recorded by old authors as occurring in Britain. — C. W. Dale, Manor House, 

 Glanvilles Wootton, Dorset : November 1st, 1889. 



Captures in Jersey.— 1 have just returned from a trip to Jersey, where I have 

 taken three rare British species, Prostemma guttula, Pionosomus varius, and Pyrrho- 

 coris apterus. — Id. 



