214 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
They appear to be of greater area than could be accounted for by sup- 
posing they represented the shrivelling of a continuous coat of the egg, 
resulting from the egg protruding through a rupture at the end. But 
that this case or capsule has some such origin looks very probable. 
This is, therefore, an egg that has a cocoon from which it emerges. 
A later investigation, after moistening the eggs, shows that the case is 
really a capsule from which the egg is escaping, the bract-like 
processes are double, that is, are folds of the retreating ege-covering. 
The summits of these folds are curved, with the concavity towards the 
open end of the case, and in one place two rows of these folds, consist- 
ing of three in front of each other in each row, form a very regular 
pattern, each member of which is very lke a bract, say of oak, in 
form. JI shall be much interested to ten from Mr. Donisthorpe how 
this cocoon is provided for the egg, and what is probably its use.— 
T. A. Cuapman, M.D., F.Z.5., Betula, Reigate. June 28rd, 1900. 
FURTHER NOTE ON CLYTHRA ! THE NEWLY-HATCHED LARVA.—J une 28th. 
Two of the larve mentioned in the above note have emerged, one 
from a naked ege, one from one of the clothed ones. The clothed egg 
has a larva that looks very much as if the clothing were to form the 
first larval case, the head and legs protruding from the eg, of which 
a portion is still visible just beyond the margin of the clothing. This 
is either really so, or I have happened just to catch it as it was 
emerging. Two more eggs show the larva very plainly within the 
transparert shell, the others are unchanged. The larva is very like a 
miniature cockchafer grub, in having the abdominal segments acutely 
bent forwards. ‘The head is large, the antenne short and stumpy, of 
two joints, the first so thick and the second so square at the end as to 
look lke the two basal joints of a lepidopterous antenna with the 
remainder broken off. The mouth-parts are well seen. The legs are 
very long, more than half the length of the body; the coxe, femora, 
and tibize being very long ; the tarsi are represented by a good claw only, 
which is, however, not a claw, but a joint, as it carries a hair or two. 
—Izip. 
LEPTINUS TESTACEUS NEAR FaveRSHAM.—COLEOPTERA IN THE BLEAN 
Woops.—On May 12th last I had the good fortune, while looking in 
the mouth of a rabbit burrow in a wood, on the chance of obtaining 
Aleochara cuniculorum, Kr., to come across a stray Leptinus testaceus. 
Further search revealed a mouse hole andrun. Adjacent to and in and 
about the leaves at the top of the run, Mr. Donisthorpe and myself 
were able each to take a nice little series of this interesting beetle. The 
spot which has since been overgrown by herbage is not more than a 
quarter of a mile from my house. I hope to be able to look it up again 
in the autumn. Mr. Donisthorpe was with me with a view to a visit 
to the Blean Woods, but these have not been very good this year. 
May 138th was apparently too late for my rmecophilous beetles, ‘only 
the commoner Staphs being obtainable, and a second visit paid by 
myself in June produced hardly anything worthy of notice, except 
Gonioctena rufipes, Gyll., and Nemeobius lucina. The whole place was 
then overrun with lormica rufa, and along the tracks nests occurred 
every few yards. They swarmed on the bushes and trees, and it is a 
wonder that anything not myrmecophilous should be able to exist 
with them. yen specimens of Balaninus villosus, Hbst., taken by 
