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(2, swept off fern), Strangalia aurulenta (dug out of rotten tree stumps), Colon 

 viennense (1, $), Tomoxia biguttata, Tychius 5-punctatus, Cryptarcha imperialis and 

 strigata, Bagous frit, Cryphalus fagi, Orcliesia undulata, Epurcea 10-guttata, Anthono- 

 mus Chevrolatii, Haploglossa pulla, Tiresias serra, Homalota autumnalis (at sap), 

 Haliplus variegatus, Hydrwna testacea (common) and Ischnoglossa corticina. 



I have also taken Stenus major at Morden, and a single specimen of Leptinus 

 testaceus in a nest of Formica fuliginosa at Tilgate Forest. — G. C. Champion, 274, 

 Walworth Koad, London, S. 



Captures of Hemiptera-Heteroptera during 1869. — Near Whitstable, Kent, 

 Henestaris laticeps and Agramma Iceta ; near Croydon, Sehirus dubius and Zicrona 

 ccerulea (abundant) ; and at the New Forest, Orthostira concinna, Lopus gothicus 

 and Eysarcoris oeneus. — Id. 



Note on the young larva of Colias Hyale. — On August 13th, 1868, Mr. A. H. 

 Jones most kindly sent me more than 20 eggs, which he had obtained from a cap- 

 tured female ; and although I failed with the larvee, yet I think my experience may 

 be of benefit to anyone who may have the same luck another time. 



The larvae were hatched August 17th to 20th, first ate their egg-shells, and 

 then settled on Medicago lupulina, in preference to Lotus corniculatus, Trifolium 

 repens and pratense, with all of which I supplied them ; they grew slowly, dying 

 off one by one, till the three or four survivors were about | inch long, at which 

 size they hybernated, but never began to feed again in spring, and so perished in 

 February and March, 1869. Perhaps the right way wonld have been to have kept 

 them in a greenhouse, and fed them up rapidly without hybernation. 



The egg is of a long fusiform shape, one end conical, the other knobbed, or 

 like a bag tied round the neck ; the shell delicate and glistening, ribbed longitudi- 

 nally, and with very slight transverse reticulations : the colour at first a pale straw, 

 changing to rich apricot or salmon colour, and lastly blackish. The newly-hatched 

 larva is of a very pale olive, freckled with brownish ; head as wide as the body, 

 and blackish ; on each segment a transverse row of clubbed pellucid bristles. 

 After a moult it becomes pale yellowish-green ; and after another, a full green. 

 And from this time to their early and lamented death, my larvas remained as 

 follows : — Length about J inch, stout, cylindrical, uniform in bulk : head narrower 

 than second segment. Colour a dull full green, head slightly tinged with brown, a 

 whitish spiracular line-; the whole skin covered closely with short black spines or 

 bristles. — J. Hellins, Exeter, December 14£7i, 1869. 



Description of the larva of HydreHa mica.— I am indebted to Mr. Carrington for 

 eggs of this species. They were laid on June 23rd and 24th, 1868, and received 

 by me June 28th. The egg is soft-looking, rather irregularly shaped, but still 

 of the usual echinus-like outline, with nearly 40 very shallow and irregular 

 ribs, connected by irregular transverse reticulations, and in colour a full yellow ; in 

 fact, it looks like a little speck of butter. 



On June 29th, the eggs became dark grey, and on 30th the larvas came forth ; 

 by July 17th, they were about J-inch in length, by the 28th, f-inch, and by the 

 first week of August, full-grown. 



