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In company with them were two specimens of the very rare Bt/ihinus fflabratus,'Rye, 

 one unfortunately so damaged as to be quite worthless. These seemed to prefer the 

 semi-liquid matter of the decaying potato, whereas the other species all inhabit, as a 

 rule, the drier substance near the skin. Among the other Coleopterous tenantry 

 were several Falagria thoracica and Oxytelus insecaiu.i, a few common Homalotce, 

 and a single Ocypus similis, whose errand was probably predacious rather than 

 vegetarian. Accompanying these were a host of Julus, which, so far as my own 

 experience goes, seem to do little real harm. As an almost invariable rule they 

 confine their attacks to the seed potatoes, and the few fresh tubers in which I 

 have found them were nearly all diseased. — Theodore Wood, St. Peter's, Kent : 

 October 3rd, 1887. 



Sydropliilidce in the Armagh district. — In addition to those already communi- 

 cated by me to the Rev. W. W. Fowler as occurring here, I have taken the 

 following: — Philhydrus maritimus, two specimens at Lowry's Lough, Anaccena 

 limbata, F., and A. variabilis, Sharp, both common; Laccobiiis sinuatus, L. alutaceus, 

 L. minutus, and L. bipunctatus, of these the last is very much the most plentiful, of 

 mimitus I have only taken one specimen, Limnebius truncatelltis, common, L. nitidus, 

 scarce, Helophorus cBneipennis, common, H. arveriiicus, rather rare, Octhebius bicolor, 

 only one specimen, Hydrcena riparia and S. nigrita, both common, Cyclonotum 

 orbiculare, one specimen, Cercyon depressum, one specimen, C. hceniorrhous, C. unipunc- 

 tatus, C. lugubris C. aiialis, and C. mimitus, all occur but sparingly. To the Adephaga 

 list I may add Chlcenius nigricornis, taken at Lowry's Lough and at Lough Neagh, 

 C. vestitus, on Coney Island, Lough Neagh, Bembidium punctiilatiitn, at Clay Lake, 

 Keady, where I also took a number of P^lophila borealis and Bembidium tibiale. 

 Pterostichiis minor, Anchomenus gracilis, of which the Rev. H. S. Gorham kindly 

 sent me types and enabled me to determine my specimens to be this species, Amara 

 aulica, Panz. Agabus unguicularis, Oyrinus marinus and Q-. minutus, both these 

 last in numbers. On Carlingford Mountain, Co. Louth, I took one specimen each of 

 Olisthopus rotundatus and Philhydrus melanocepihalus. — W. F. Johnson, Winder 

 Terrace, Armagh : September Ibtk, 1887. 



Sirex juvencus at Wotton-under-Edge.- — On the 22nd September, a very fine 

 female of this beautiful Sirex was observed flying about in a cottage garden, and 

 captured and brought to me the same day for identification. The capture is worth 

 recording, as the insect is undoubtedly scarce, in fact, this is the only instance I 

 know of its occurrence in this part of the country. 



The other species, Sirex gigas,. is often met with, and has, in two or three 

 instances, proved very destructive to the Deodar Cedai-s, which ornament our lawns 

 and pleasure grounds. — V. R. Perkins, Wotton-under-Edge : October lOth, 1887. 



Simulium attacking larvce in Japan. — I have called attention in the Proc. 

 Asiatic Soc. of Japan to the fact that a minute Dipteron attacks the imago of 

 Stauropus persimilis, the eastern form of Stauropus fagi, sucking its blood ; it is a 

 very minute yellow sand-fly, and I believe it to be a Simulium. I have now ascer- 

 tained that this fly also attacks the larva of Smerinthus planus, the eastern form of 

 Smerinthus ocellatus. I yesterday saw and examined under the microscope one of 

 this fly, which had its proboscis buried in the back of a nearly full-fed larva of 



