litis.] 



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itself and its Nomada sometimes literally swarm in localities 

 on stiff clay and the heaviest soils, from which its allies are 

 entirely absent. 



Similarity in habits is shown by the liking of all three species 

 for papilionaceous plants, the females gathering much pollen from 

 these. 



Paignton. 



Dec. 2Qth, 1917. 



The Association of Acari %ci1h Insects. — It may interest Mr. Morley 

 {cf. ante, p. 19) and others to know that in Curtis's " Farm Insects," p. 199 

 & Plate G, figs. 48 & 49, Uropoda nmhilicata is described and illustrated in 

 connection with its attachment to Elnter [^Agriotes'] obscurus. The mite is 

 attached by its back to a tube (apparently) the other end of which it fastens 

 to an elytron of the beetle for the purpose (?) of extracting nourishment from 

 the latter. — C. Nicholson, Hale End, Chingford : Jan. l-ith, 1918. 



Staphylinus jnibesceMS De G. in Essex. — I have taken two specimens of tliis 

 insect in the Southend district — one at Hockley, in April, in horse dung, and 

 one in September, at Hadleigh, also in dung. It has not, I believe^ been 

 recorded from these localities previously. Mr. C. E. StoU has kindly veritind 

 rav determination. — A. F. J. Gedye, 2 Park Terrace^ Westclitf-on-Sea, Essex : 

 Jan. IQth, 1918. 



Coleojytera at Micldeton {Glos.). — From Aug. 1st to Sept. 13th, 1917, 1 was 

 *' under canvas,'' working "en the land," near a small village in the north of 

 Gloucestershire. This gave me opportunities in the evening, after work, for a 

 little collecting. The following Coleoptera, amongst otliers, were noticed : — 

 Cnrubus violaceus ; C. monilis, very common in the tents ; Amara familiaris 

 and trivialis, extremely abundant in an onion field; Pterostiohus vernalis and 

 cnpirus, sparingly in the same field ; Stumis pumicatus, under a stone ; Ilyhius 

 g tttiger, one example under a clod of earth in the onion field ; Astilbus cana- 

 licvlatus, three specimens in an ant's nest under a stone ; Hister cadaverinics 

 and Vennestes murinus, in a dead rabbit : Mi/cefophagns 4-pustu/atus, in a 

 boletus on an oak-tree ; Eorcus parallelepiped us, c^ and $ ? on ash logs ; 

 Sinodendron cylindricum, in ash log ; Chrysomela staphylea, under moss ; 

 Liophloeus 7iubilus, one specimen. — George B. Ryle, 15 Madeira Place, 

 Prighton : Dec. 27th, 1917. 



The larva of Scymnus. — My attention has been called to the fact that in 

 stating on p. 8, ante, that I believed no modern representation of a lar\ a of 

 this genus existed, I have overlooked a drawing of that of IS. arcuatus by 

 the Kev. J. F. Perry in Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1915, Plate A (facing 

 p. xcix). This is not striinge, for by some extraordinary mischance that 

 drawing is described at the toot of the plate as " Larva and pupa of 

 Aleurodes parasitic on Scymnus arcuatus'^ Aleurodes is really the prey 

 of the insect represented (there is uo parasitism), and I am glad of the 



