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I took two or three specimens of Eucera longicornis, which were almost the only bees 

 I saw. On some old mossy rails I found one larva of Coleophora paripennella, and 

 on a sallow-leaf I met with a single larva of Coleophora palliatella sticking up in the 

 upper part of the leaf in the midrib; after finding this one specimen I carefully 

 hunted the bush over, but could not find another; this I was very sorry for, as it is a 

 species that is much wanted : thus ended my entomological ramble, which you 

 will say was a very poor one for a day in June in Devonshire. — Edward Parfitt ; 

 4, Weirfield Place , St. Leonardos, Exeter , June, 1856. 



Note on the Occurrence of Scraptia nigricans. — T was fortunate enough to secure 

 a specimen of this rare beetle a few weeks ago, near Kettering, in Northamptonshire, 

 crawling on the inner surface of an open window, into which it had clearly flown from 

 a garden immediately in front. The single example which had hitherto come 

 beneath my notice was possessed by the late Mr. Stephens, and its history is, in the 

 ' Illustrations of British Entomology,' thus briefly expressed : — " The only specimen I 

 have seen of this insect I captured flying in a garden at Ripley, in July, 1827, about 

 six o'clock in the afternoon." So much for S. nigricans the first. Its recent counter- 

 part might be recorded as follows : — " The only specimen (save the Stephensian one) 

 which I have seen of this insect I captured, flown out of a garden, at Rush ton, in 

 July, 1856, about six o'clock in the afternoon." An hereditary obedience to time and 

 circumstances is strongly shadowed forth in many a representative of the " Carab 

 race ;" but the parallelism of these two instances is certainly very remarkable. — 

 T. Vernon Wollaston ; 10, Hereford Street, Park Lane, August 7, 1856. 



Great Gathering of P hoe don Vitellines. — On Wednesday, the 13th, at 6.30 p.m., the 

 hour of Mr. Stainton's levee at the finger-post, I was wending my way quietly along a 

 tributary lane in company with Mr. Douglas and some minor luminaries in entomo- 

 logical science, when I espied a twig of aspen, the leaves of which were so loaded with 

 Phaxlon Vitellinae as to give it a most abnormal brilliancy. One tap of the beating- 

 stick produced a shower of these living gems : the net was quickly studded with them ; 

 no less than four hundred and eighty were bottled, and I believe full as many were 

 turned adrift. Mr. Douglas and I have often thrashed the same hedges, in the same 

 lane, at the same time, and with the same weapons, and I cannot recollect having seen 

 a single Phaedon previously taken there. This occasional abundance of a species in 

 localities where it has not been observed before is a fact familiar to all experts in our 

 craft ; and many a record of such occurrences might be preserved with far greater 

 advantage to science than those apocryphal statements about Bath Whites, &c, to 

 which we are occasionally treated. — Edward Newman. — [Intelligencer.'] 



Corrections of Errors in Communication to ' Zoologist,' page 5210. — Page 5211, 

 16 lines from top, for " complanula " read "complana"; 20 lines from top, for 

 " Semaphora" read " Cerura"; 12 lines from bottom, put a full-point after the word 

 "had" and a capital F to "found." Page 5212, 12 lines from top, erase "New to 

 Science"; 24 lines from top, for "ocellata" read " occulta"; 3 lines from bottom, for 

 "my" read "any." Page 5213, 16 lines from bottom, after "rare" should read 

 "have been taken," &c; 12 lines from bottom, after " mixtana" say "and ;" bottom line, 

 erase " Heliothis dipsacea." — C S. Gregson ; Stanley, near Liverpool, August 7, 1856. 



[Great pains were taken both by my friend Mr. Douglas and myself to correct 

 Mr. Gregson's contribution, but we both were fearful that some errors escaped us. — 

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