issr.) 155 



I conclude these notes by a consideration of the materials of 

 wliich the cases are formed. In the New Zealand case, the materials 

 were chiefly fragments of a coralline sea weed, but were evidently 

 not so with those from New South Wales. I therefore submitted 

 some small fragments of these latter to my friend Dr. M. C. Cooke, 

 of the Kew Herbarium, for microscopical examination of cell- 

 structure. He considers the fragments to be those of either TJlva 

 or Enteromorpha ; and he adds that both these genera are as much 

 found in estuaries and far up the course of rivers as in the sea, 

 and that they especially prefer brackish water. Mr. OllifE states 

 emphatically that no fresh-water stream exists where the larvae are 

 found. If admixture of fresh-water be necessary for the larvae of 

 Philanisus, there remains a possibility that land springs, covered at 

 high Avater, may exist on the beach where the shallow rock-pools 

 occur. On this point I have asked for further information. In any 

 case, the larvae must be covered by the sea during half of their 

 existence. 



Lewisham, London : 



Focember bth, 1887. . 



Tseudopsis sulcata and JEpurcea diffusa in Wanvickshire. — In August last I 

 captured a single specimen of Psettdopsis sulcata at the roots of herbage growing 

 on the bank of a small stream at Knowle, and a few evenings later, on visiting a 

 Cossus-infected tree at Solihull I found a few specimens of ILpurcea diff'uaa, accom- 

 panied by numerous other sap-loving species, such as Homalota cinnamomea, Sister 

 succicola, and Soronia punctatissima. The Psettdopsis and Epurcea are both new 

 to the Birmingham District. — W. G. Blatch, 214, Green Lane, Smallheath, 

 Birmingham : October 9th, 1887. 



Coleoptera in Shenvood Forest. — During a short visit to Sherwood Forest in 

 September, 1885, I found the following species (with many others) under bark : — 

 PrognatTia qitadricornis (very abundant under pine bark), Athous rhomheus (oak), 

 Abrceus globosus, jRMzophagiis politus, Scolytus destructor, Tomicus larieis. In the 

 following June I captured in the same locality St apliy linns fulrip}es (loose bark), 

 Philonthus bipustulatus (bark), Leiodes orbiculatus (fungus), Cossonus linearis (oak 

 bark), Antherophagus nigricornis (elder blossom), Omosita depressa, Hister sticcieola, 

 and S. merdarius, the last three in dead sheep. — Id. 



Langelandia anophthalma, Aube, ^'c, in potatoes. — As I hoped, this interesting 

 beetle has again appeared in my potato bed, and I have taken in all some fifty speci- 

 mens, both in the decaying seed and in fragments of rotting wood. I also found two 

 or three pupae, which were white, semi-translucent, and almost exactly similar in form 

 to the perfect insect. Adelops and Anommatus were in profusion, and I might have 

 taken almost any number of either; seventeen of the latter once from a single potato ! 



