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think, perfect, and appeared very fresh. I tried to catch it, but it flew into 

 the gardens on my left. I saw no more of it. There was, however, no mis- 

 taking the specimen, which expanded its wings right in front of me. This 

 occurred just above Waterloo Bridge. — Lawrence J. Tkemayne; 4, Lanark 

 Villas, Maida Vale, W., March 8, 1893. 



Amongst the Coleoptera on Bank Holiday. — On December 26th, 

 1892, the thermometer below freezing-point, the sun shining brightly over- 

 head, the merry laughs of the skaters as they speeded past us upon the 

 frozen Thames, all tended to make us buoyant with the hope that we should 

 have the good fortune to find a " good thing," as we wended our way toward 

 IfHey on this eventful morning. Soon we came in sight of some aspens; 

 out came diggers and bottles ; the rough bark was prized off, and amongst 

 the fissures we noticed, lying in a dormant condition, Dorytomus intermedius 

 and D. vorax in some numbers, with Agonum gracile and Pterostictus minor. 

 Just, however, as we were in the midst of ascertaining whether certain 

 suspicious-looking cocoons — of which there were some dozens of empty 

 ones in the bark — were the cocoons of the hornet clearwing, we were 

 rudely awakened to the fact that we were trespassing. As we could not 

 persuade the keeper (sic) that we were doing no damage to the property 

 whatever, we had to make tracks. A short distance further on brought us 

 to an old decayed willow-stump, upon which we immediately set to work. 

 Pterostictus minor and niger, Argutor strenuus and diligens, Agonum gracile, 

 Leja lampros, and Lopha aasimile were found in great numbers ; Carabus 

 nemoralis we turned out in some numbers. A number of small Brachelytra 

 were found basking in the sun on the stump. Anchomenus livens was 

 turned out; several specimens of this have been taken by myself in various 

 localities near Oxford, Within five yards of us the ice was populated with 

 skaters, and a small crowd of the genus Homo (young) formed around us, 

 inquiring " what we wanted 'em for." Meanwhile we were turning out 

 Anchomenus (Clibanarius) dorsalis and albipes, Dromius quadrimaculatus 

 and foveolatus, Dyschirius globosus, Clivina fossor, Errhinus acridulus, 

 Harpalus ceneus and rufipes, Chrysomela polita, Gastrophysa marginella (in 

 abundance), and Haltica nemoralis. Amongst some refuse I noticed a 

 peculiar-looking insect, and found, on extricating it, Oodes helopoides, and 

 soon afterwards Amara familiaris was found. A few moments later we 

 left this profitable stump, and adjourned to some aspens close to the river, 

 where, on scraping off the moss at the foot of the tree, we found Dromius 

 quadrimaculatus, quadrinotatus, and meridionalis, Demetrias atricapilla, 

 Prasocuris pheUandrii, Onthophilus striatus, Silpha (PhospJiuga) atrata, 

 Lathridus lardarius, and one specimen of Bembidium saxatile. One spe- 

 cimen of a small Trichopteryx (sp. incert.) was noticed under moss with 

 Apion assimile, and numbers of small specimens of Brachelytra. By this 

 time our bottles were in a very full condition, and, as the sun was dipping 

 below the tops of the Chilswell Hills and the wind began to feel colder, we 

 decided to give up collecting for the day, and, having taken enough to fill 

 up the uncompleted series, we wended our way back towards Oxford. — John 

 W. Shipp (Assistant to the late Prof. Westwood), Oxford University 

 Museum. 



Lepidoptera taken and bred in neighbourhood of Swansea, 1892. — 

 Pieris brassica, P. rapes, P. napi.Euchloe cardamines, all common. Colias 

 edusa, fairly common, and one var. helice. C. hyale, one seen. Gonopteryx 

 rhainni, not rare. Argynnis selene, A ■ euphrosyne and MelitcBa aurinia, all 



