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of the pei'fect male insect, a small creature with little power of flight, iu localities 

 where water was absent. According to a letter received from M. Snellen Van 

 VoUenhoven, the larva occurs " in millions " in the wood of La Haye, in Holland. 

 May I ask observers to keep a look-out for this most peculiar insect? — R.McLachlan, 

 20, Limes Grove North, Lewisham, Jtcne, 1868. 



Tenthredo olivacea of Klug, a new BHtish saw-flxj. — Of this I took a single 

 specimen at Rannoch, in June, 1865, and have received five examples from. Dairy, 

 Ayrshire, taken by Dr. Sharp. It much resembles the common and variable T. 

 scalaris, but may be at once distinguished by its olive-green, instead of bright 

 green, ground-colour, and by the thoracic black markings, which here form only 

 slender lines marking the sutures of the lobes ; whereas in scalaris they ai*e more 

 conspicuous, and form distinct blotches, even in the least-marked individuals. — Id. 



Occurrence of a genus of Goleojptera new to Britain. — I have just received for 

 determination from Miss Catherine C. Hopley, of Lewes, a ^ specimen of Phospha^- 

 nus hemipterus, GeolF., captured in her garden at that town. Another example has 

 been taken. This luminous beetle occurs commonly in France and Germany, and 

 is distinguishable from the " Glow-worm" by its much smaller size and long and 

 stout antennae, and the very short gaping elytra of its male. A full account will 

 appear in our next No. from Miss Hopley's pen. — E. C. Rye, 7, Park Field, Putney, 

 June, 1868. 



Capture of a species of Oniias new to Britain. — During the last and the early 

 part of the present month, I have taken in Hackney Marshes a few examples of 

 both sexes, including a pale form, of an Omias evidently different from our recorded 

 species, and which Mr. Rye thinks is to be referred to the 0. pelliicidus of Schbnherr. 



Of those already known as British, it most resembles 0. hrunnipes, from which 

 it may readily be distinguished by the thin scattered grey hairs on its elytra. It 

 is a little larger than that abundant insect (pallid forms of which have, I believe, 

 before now been mistaken for it), dark pitchy-brown in colour, with reddish-yellow 

 antennae and legs, a strongly-punctured rostrum, which is furrowed towards the 

 apex ; a wide, flattish, laterally much rounded, strongly and somewhat irregularly 

 punctured thorax, and strongly punctate-striate elytra. The anterior femora are 

 untoothed, but the tibiae are curved inwardly towards the apex, where they terminate 

 in a sharp point. The male is much narrower than the female. I observe that 

 Stephens, in the " Manual," describes 0. pellucidus, Schon., and does not prefix his 

 desideratum mark ; but, from the absence of the insect in our more reliable i-ecent 

 Catalogues, I presume that in Ihis case, as in many others, he copied the descrip- 

 tion from the original author, under the erroneous idea that he really possessed 

 the species. — W. G. Pelerin, 55, Sandringham Road, Dalston, June, 1868. 



Capture of Apliodius villosus. — I captured a very few examples of this rare 

 species on the 8th inst., crawling over the dry sand-hills at Llandudno. It is just 

 ten yeai'S since Mr. Cooke found his single specimen under similar circumstances 

 at Southport. — Jos. Sidebotham, 19, George Street, Manchester, 16th June, 1868. 



