5216 Insects, fyc. 



Ptinoides on the ivy growing against the wall of Lanercost Abbey in the beginning of 

 this month. — Thomas John Bvld ; Long Benton, Neweastle-on-Tyne, July 21, 1856. 



Capture of Anthribus albinus at Pembury. — I do not collect Coleoptera, but was 

 fortunate enough to meet with the rare Anthribus albinus, on a wet spongy spot of 

 ground near Pembury. — /. Jenner Weir. 



Mononychus Pseudacori. — On February 6th I found a living specimen of Monony- 

 chus Pseudacori in a bottle with laurel leaves, which could not have been captured 

 later than November 14th : the leaves that were intended to be its death were most 

 likely its sustenance.— George Guyon. 



Edtvardsia vestita. — In my note on this curious tubicolous Actinioid (Zool. 5180) I 

 omitted to mention that Mr. P. H. Gosse gave me the zoological history of the ani- 

 mal, and pointed out its identity with the form from the iEgean, as described by Pro- 

 fessor Forbes. Since I last wrote I have obtained a few other specimens. They live 

 remarkably well in the aquarium, making fresh cases from mud, sand, bits of sea- 

 weed, &c. ; and are so hardy that one bore a three days' journey by post, in a little 

 tin box, to a distant part of Ireland with perfect safety. — W. Alford Lloyd ; 19 and 

 20, Portland Road, Regent's Park, London, July 26, 1856. 



Occurrence of the Serotine Bat in the Isle of Wight. — On the 3rd of January, while 

 at Ventnor, something alive was brought to me wrapped up in a duster, with the in- 

 quiry whether I wanted a "rattle-mouse:" having no very clear ideas of what the 

 animal bearing that cognomen might be, I shook the cloth into a foot-tin, imme- 

 diately covering it with a fire-guard, when I found the mysterious stranger was a Se- 

 rotine bat, a species stated in Bell's work to be nearly confined to the neighbourhood 

 of the metropolis, but which, I am told, is not uncommon in the Island. It was 

 taken hybernating in an old chimney, and immediately ate some raw meat left with it, 

 and in four days' afterwards would take it from the fingers, and suffer itself to be 

 stroked. I often allowed it to fly about the passage of an evening, and remarked 

 (contrary to what is stated of some species) that it could rise and take wing with ease 

 from the flat surface of the carpet : it frequently slept for several days during the 

 colder weather; and on March 7th it was found dead in the cage suspended by the 

 hinder feet in the usual attitude of rest. That it knew me I would hardly venture to 

 say ; but certainly on one occasion it squeaked in alarm when another person offered 

 to touch it, which it never did with me after the first few days. — George Guyon. 



