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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Crepidodera pusilla 



Apthona caerulea (Pseuda- 

 cori), common on Iris 



Apthona lutescens, 2, com- 

 mon 



Cercus flavilabris, 4 



Aphodius scybalarius 



Donacia sericea, 5 



Leiopblasus nubilus 



Phyllobius unicolor, 2 

 Polydrosus pterygomalis 

 Apion Ervi 



„ violaceum, 2 



„ humile, 2 

 Bembidium 2-punctatus, 3 

 Amara vulgaris 



„ trivialis, 2 

 Calathus mollis 



J5 



GryphidiusEquiseti, common Anchomenus Isevis, common 



Sciaphilus muricatus, 3 



Barynotus Schonherri 



Baridius T-albura 



Meciniis pyrgaster, 2 



Hydronomus Alismatis 



Caeliodes didymus 



Ceulorhynchideus termina- 



tus, 3 



Ceuthorhynchus assimilis 

 Sitones griseus 



„ tibialis, common 



micans 

 Pogonus chalceus, var, 

 Philonthus politus 

 5, varians 



„ ebeninus 



Stenus plantaris, 4 

 „ declaratus 

 Omalina rivulara 

 Tachyporus ruficollis 



„ obtusus, var, 



according to Sharp. 

 — Samuel Stevens ; 28, King Street, Covent Garden, July 9, 

 1871. 



Four days in Sherwood Forest. — I spent four days, from 

 June 12th to 16th, in company with Mr. Porritt, of Hudders- 

 field, in Sherwood Forest. We made Edvvinstowe our head- 

 quarters, and, except when we were stopped by the rain, we 

 spent the day-time in searching the trees and beating for 

 larvae, and the evening in sugaring. At the latter, however, 

 we did scarcely anything. The weather was cold, and there 

 seemed to be no Noctuae about: all the four nights I do not 

 think more than a dozen moths came to sugar, and, with the 

 exception of one N. Saponaria3 and one C. Porcellus, they were 

 quite common things, such as A. exclamationis and G. tri- 

 linea. Larvae hunting was more successful, as the following 

 list will show. The great find, however, was a fine male 

 S. Fagi, which was found, silting on an oak tree, the first day, 

 only just out : it is now in my possession. We were a little 

 too early for imagos ; T. punctulata was tolerably plentiful, 

 but we did very badly for the season ; everything seems to be 

 late this year. The weather has been wet and cold ; and I 



