5544 Insects. 



It is a very beautiful species: it is very curious how an insect so small can insert its 

 ovipositor between the large scales of the pine-cones, so as to reach the larvse of the 

 Cynips(?) residing in the seeds: the economy of this insect would be very interesting, 

 if any one residing where the species abounds would work it out. — Edward Parfitt ; 

 4, Weirjield Place, St. Leonards, Exeter, February 10, 1857. 



Occurrence of Latridius Jiliformis, Gyll., near Exeter. — I have great pleasure in 

 adding this interesting species to the British list, having been fortunate enough to 

 discover about forty specimens of it in a fungus I had put by in a box and forgotten.' 

 As I have been studying the Fungi of Devon for several years, I had collected the one 

 in which this species was found, in one of my rambles last summer; but the Latridii 

 had eaten the fungus so much that 1 was not able to say what species it was. The 

 Latridius I very carefully examined under the microscope, and found it was an un- 

 described British species; I consequently sent some of them to E. W. Janson, Esq., 

 who very kindly informed me it was L. filiformis, Gyllenhal and Mannerheim. I also 

 sent some to F. Smith, Esq., at the British Museum, for him to compare them with 

 the Continental specimens of that species, and he found them to be the same ; so there 

 can be no mistake about its being the true species. — Id. ; February 11, 1857. 



Capture and Description of Epurcea neglecta. — Lately, when naming a few beetles 

 for a correspondent, I detected a specimeu of Epuraja neglecta, a species not hitherto 

 recorded as British. As it will, in all probability, be found elsewhere, I have sketched 

 its more prominent characters : — 



Epur^ea neglecta, Sturm, Deutschl. Ins. xv. 63, 8, pi. 295, b. B. =: Erichs. 

 Natur. der Ins. Deutschl. iii. 147, 9. 

 Nitidula neglecta, Heer, Faun. Col. Helv. i. 396, 8. 

 Short ovate, slightly depressed, sparingly covered with griseous pubescence; 

 blackish brown, with the antennae, outer margins of thorax and elytra, and the legs 

 pale ferruginous ; head, thorax, scutellum and elytra closely and distinctly punctured ; 

 thorax nearly twice as broad as long, much narrowed in front, slightly emarginate, the 

 sides dilated and rounded; elytra with the disk a little uneven, broad, narrowing 

 slightly towards the apex, which is truncate. Length \\ line. 



The broad ovate form, blackish brown colour, pale margins, antenna? and legs,.will 

 readily distinguish this species from its congeners. The only specimen that T have 

 seen was taken, beneath the bark of a decaying elder, by Mr. Constantine, near 

 Acrington, Lincolnshire, about February, 1856. A. Murray, Esq., informs me that it 

 has also been captured near London, by the indefatigable Dr. Power. — Thomas John 

 Bold; Long Benton, Newcastle-on-Tyne, February 14, 1857. 



Captures of Coleopiera in Leicestershire. — In consequence of a permission kindly 

 granted to me by John Ellis, Esq., to enter many rich and interesting spots belonging 

 to the Midland Railway Company, and owing to the same kindness on the part of the 

 keepers of Buddon Wood, I have been enabled to extend my researches in localities 

 that have not hitherto been examined by the prying eye of an entomologist, and to 

 add to our local Fauna many new and interesting species. In addition to those 

 recorded by Mr. Bates in the 'Zoologist' (Zool. 4437), are the following: — 



Calosoma inquisitor. The habitat of this interesting creature is upon the oaks in 

 Buddon Wood, and can be found in May and June in the following manner: — Place 

 your back to one of the large trees, stand perfectly still, watch the upper boughs for a 



