138 THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 
GYOLEOPTERA. 
PaRNUS NITIDULUS aT CurppENHAM.—On a visit to Chippenham Fen 
in August last, with my friend Mr. Donisthorpe, I was fortunate 
enough to take a specimen of this rare beetle; it was in company with 
P. auriculatus ; the red legs at once distinguish it from the other species. 
As far as I am aware, the only record for very many years was one 
made by Mr. Donisthorpe, in 1898, from the same locality, and I was 
present when he took his specimen.—Franx Bovusxett, F.E.S., 
F.R.H.S., Market Bosworth. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES. 
Breepinc Spuinx convonvutt.—It has been suggested to me by 
Mr. Tutt that the following details as to breeding Sphinx convolvult 
would be interesting to British lepidopterists. From August 14th-16th, 
1894, I found four larve of this species, from August 12th-14th, 1895, 
two larve, and on August 16th, 1897, one larva, at Dover, at the back 
of the prison. ‘Two were brown in colour and were preserved, the others 
were greenish-brown in tint and worked out as follows : 
1894. Larva taken August 14th, pupated August 20th, emerged October 7th. 
Larvee(2) taken August 15th, one pupated August 17th, emerged October 
5th (the other preserved). 
Larva taken August 16th, pupated August 19th, emerged October 10th. 
1895. Larve (2) taken August 12th, one pupated August 13th, emerged Sep- 
tember 30th (the other preserved). 
Larva taken August 14th, pupated August 16th, emerged October 9th. 
1897. Larva taken August 16th, pupated August 24th, pupa died. 
The locality is now all dug away for the new harbour works. They 
were bred indoors in a living-room, fed on dwarf convolvulus, two of the 
larvee were somewhat small when taken, but grew very rapidly in a 
week, after the habit of S. ligustri, when in its last stadium.—C. P. 
Pickett, The Ravenscrofts, Columbia Road, Hackney Road, London, 
N.E. April 29th, 1900. 
THYREOSTHENIUS BIOVATUS IN NESTS OF Formica ruFA.—An adult 
female of this minute spider was kindly sent to me recently, by Mr. 
Horace Donisthorpe, by whom it was found in the nest of Formica 
rufa in Guestling Wood near Hastings, while searching for other 
dwellers in ants’ nests. It has long been known to domicile with F. 
rufa, and has been recorded from France, Germany and Holland, but 
Mr. Donisthorpe’s capture is the first record of it in Great Britain. 
The following synonymy and notes may be interesting : 
THYREOSTHENIUS BIovATUS, Camb.=Frigone biovata, Camb., ‘‘ Proc. Zool. Soc. 
Lond.,” 1875, p. 215, pl. xxix., fig. 22 (from near Rouen, France) = Peponocraniwm 
biovatwm, Camb.-Sim., ‘“‘ Araneides de France,” tom. v., p. 186 (1884) = Thyreos- 
thenius biovatus, Camb.-Sim., l.c., p. 876=Walckenaera biovata, Camb. Van 
Hasselt, ‘‘Catalogus Aranearum in Hollandia inventarum,’” Supplementum ii. 
“Overgedrukt nit deel. vanhet Tijdschr. v. Entomologie,” pp. 8, 29, 32, 1890, and 
supplementum iii., U.c. xli., 1898, p. 27. 
—(Rev.) O. P. Camermer, M.A., F.R.S., Bloxworth, Dorset. April 
24th, 1900. 
CoMPOSITE COCOONS AND EMERGENCE OF LACHNEIS LANESTRIS.— 
Referring to my notes on the habits of the larve of this species (ante., 
vol. xi., pp. 28-54), I am now able to give particulars relative to recent 
emergences of imagines. I find that I inadvertently misstated the- 
number of the larvee comprising the nest, it should have been 200. I 
placed the cocoons on moss and kept them in an unheated well-aired 
