238 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Phloeotrihus Olece near Halifax. — Prof. Westwood men- 

 tioned that he had recently been breeding in numbers the 

 continental Phloeotribus Oleae from an ash tree growing 

 near Halifax. The tree, however, was imported from France, 

 so that the beetle could not yet be regarded as British, though 

 it would doubtless become naturalized here. He had dissected 

 it, and found that it really belonged to the Tomicus group. 



JEigosoma scahricorne. — Mr. Miiller exhibited, in spirits, a 

 full-fed larva of ^gosoma scabricorne: and a piece of the 

 bark of a lime tree, showing the exit-hole of the imago. On 

 St. Peter's bastion at Basle there were formerly some lime 

 trees, and on the 8th of March, 1868, one of the old trees was 

 blown down during a hail-storm; the larva3 thrown out of the 

 shattered trunk were picked up by Herr Stehelin ImhofF, and 

 that exhibited was one of them. In the spring of 1869 all the 

 trees were felled, and in one, of much smaller size than that 

 blown down in 1868, were a considerable number of the larvge 

 in all stages of development. The larva is of the usual 

 Prionid form, and is described by Mulsant in Ann. Soc. 

 de Linn, de Lyon for 1855, reprinted in his Opusc. vi. 46. 

 The habit of the beetle was to fly in the twilight, anc) rest 

 during the day on the bark, by preference in a cavity sheltered 

 from the sun: it occurred in July, August, and September: in 

 July, 1865, Mr. H. Knecht took thirty-eight specimens at 

 Basle; in August, 1866, twenty-five specimens; whilst in 

 1868 only a single specimen was captured, on the 8th of 

 September. At the same spot, Osmoderma Eremita occurred 

 both in 1865 und 1866; and in tlic latter year, Aromia 

 moschata was plentiful. 



EpinepJiele Tiilionus and H. Comma in Shropshire. — 

 Seeing a statement of yours, in your * British Butterflies,' 

 that you had no record of E. Tithonus in Shropshire, I beg 

 to say that I have taken it here, round Shrewsbury, the last 

 four or five years in great plenty ; and last year it absolutely 

 swarmed here, as it did also the preceding year. With respect 

 also to Comma I caught several specimens in 1864 and 1865; 

 since* then I had not seen it till this year, when 1 took three 

 very fine specimens, and saw several others : two of the spe- 

 cimens were taken on July 6ih and SejjtcmbQr 24lh respect- 

 ively, there being several fine warm days of sunshine at the 

 date. — Georye IV. Oldjield ; Shrewsbury y December 19, 1870. 



