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height are the same, viz., 064 mm. ; magnified 24 diameters it still looks smooth, 

 and free from sculpture, unlike the fine hexagonal netting of Arclia ; the diamond- 

 shaped reticulations observed by Buckler are the hairs of the young larva just before 

 hatching, and they form a very regular pattern within the egg. I took no description 

 of the young larva, but observed that the dorsal tubercles on each side were large, 

 and possessed two hairs, precisely as if anterior and posterior trapezoidals were fused 

 into one plate, and the hairs (four on each segment) were remarkable as being very 

 long, and splitting into two at about a third of their length, each brancli being 

 recurved. I have not seen in any other larva hairs dividing dichotomously in this 

 way, those on Ajax (see Scudder) and <S. ocellatus are on a much smaller scale, and 

 are rather spines than hairs. Tlie full-grown larva has a very Lyccenid aspect, from 

 the flattening of the under-surface, and the prologs being near the middle of tins 

 flat surface ; the lateral flange, however, is poorly developed, and does not project 

 further out than the spiracles ; it, however, maintains the width at the spiracular 

 level until it rather suddenly rounds oif into the flat under-surface ; the head is not 

 covered and retractile, but has more the form and setting on of a Satyrus than of 

 Lyccena. — T. A. Chapman, Fairbank, Hereford : August, 1890. 



Scarce Coleoftera. — A few days ago I met with half-a-dozen specimens of 

 Smicronyx Reichei, Gyll., on the Cliesil beach, amongst Cuscuta epithymum and 

 thyme. Galeruca celandica, Boh., I met with here last September. Cistela ceram- 

 boides, Linn., I took on the wing on July 4th, 1SC7. Conopalpus testaceus I have 

 taken strangely enough in the years 1870, 1880, and 1890, by brushing my net along 

 the half dead branches of an oak. Abdera bifasciata I took here on August 5th, 

 1875.— C. W. Dale, Glanvilles Wootton : Angnst Uh, 1890. 



Capture of a second specimen of Liburnia Dalei, Scott. — On September 17th 

 I had the pleasure of taking a ? of this rare Homopteron in this parish. A ^ was 

 taken by my father at Lulworth on August 25th, 1864, and described by Mr. Scott 

 in Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. vii, p. 72 —Id. 



Capture of Metatropis rufescens, IT.-S. — I took four specimens of tlie above in 

 one of my copses, in June, by sweeping Circma lutetiana. — Id. 



A hint concerning Raphidia. — An elaborate monograph of this singular Ncu- 

 ropterous genus by Mr. Herman Albarda, of Leeuwarden (Holland), has been 

 practically completed in MS., and will, I hope, speedily be published. It will clear 

 up many points in synonymy, add a not inconsiderable number to the list of species, 

 and serve as a new departure in the study of a group, small in itself, but of great 

 interest, a group {Raphidia and InoceJlia) most highly specialized and isolated, save 

 as to mimetic analogy (Manfispida). It is a group purely Palaarctic and Nearetic, 

 and, as regards the latter zoological province, western, the solitary eastern Nearetic 

 record probably requiring confirmation. 



The larvae are known to be carnivorous, feeding on Xylophagous larvae, &c. 



The species are not numerous, neither, as a rule, are the individuals from a 

 collector's point of view. In this country I think I have not taken more than 15 



