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separate from the well-known European megacephalus. Mr. Rye, to whom I shewed 

 these exotics, without notice of their origin, was, like myself, quite unable to find 

 any differential charsicters for them. I believe other British species of Coleoptera 

 have been observed from Japan; and readers of this Magazine will remember 

 Mr. Lewis' notes on the singular resemblance to (and even identity with) certain 

 of our indigenous beetles afforded by some of his Chinese captures. — W. Tylden, 

 Stanford, Hythe. 



Fwrther note on Enoicyla pv^lla. — Mr. Fletcher writes me that he has bred 

 fifty or sixty of this insect. He says the insects pair almost as soon as the ? 

 emerges, but remain united for only a short time. In confinement the $ deposits 

 her eggs under moss near the earth ; they are excluded in a conical, amber- 

 coloured mass, which is almost half the size of the insect. 



In my previous note {ante p. 143) an error has crept in involving an impos- 

 sibility, viz., the sentence in which the larva is said to burrow into the earth after 

 having closed hath ends of its case. The facts are that the larva ceases feeding 

 early in June, then stops the ventral end of the case, and burrows ; afterwards, in 

 September, it closes the other end, and changes to a pupa. — R. McLachlan, 

 Lewisham, Noveynher, 1868. 



Insects found on glaciers. — Perhaps it is worth while to mention that, last July, 

 while ascending the Maladetta, I observed on the final snowy dome of the glacier, 

 at the height of about 11,000 feet, great numbers of a common-looking Chrysopa, 

 both flying and crawHng on the snow. Lower down there were none to be seen, 

 during the two days I spent in those regions. Their occurrence in such a situation, 

 and nowhere else, seemed quite unaccountable. On a former occasion I obtained 

 fix>m the glacier of the Vignemale, at a nearly equal height, a fine series of Ich- 

 neumon antennatoriusy Grav. They were picked up at intervals of a few yards, 

 alive, but feeble, each one being at the bottom of a small pit or depression in the 

 snow. With them, and in equal abundance, was a moth, I forget what species, but 

 probably Plusia gamma, which swarms in the Pyrenees. There were also a few of 

 LygcBUs equestris, which Ramond mentions having noticed, together with a BupestriSy 

 in his break-neck attempt to scale the Touqueroue glacier leading up to Mont 

 Perdu.— T. A. Marshall, Milford, October, 1868. 



Lithohius forcipatus mothing. — One of my friends, in June last, had " sugared" 

 a strip of wall, near Newcastle, to attract moths, and was considerably astonished 

 when he returned with his light, to find himself forestalled by this centipedoid 

 wretch, which had ascended the wall and captured the only moth attracted by the 

 sweets ; the moth, a large Noctua, was making the most violent efforts to escape, 

 but all in vain, as the Lithohius appeared to hold it with the greatest ease, only 

 quitting its grip when ray friend, afraid of losing his specimen, put an end to 

 the struggle by seizing the moth. — T. J. Bold, Long Benton. 



[Mr. Bold's note reminds me of a somewhat analogous (but -post-mortem) in- 

 stance of unexpected insect hunting that occurred in my house this autumn. For 

 three consecutive nights I found recently-mounted beetles that had been left out to 

 dry on a setting board carefully placed so as to be unassailable by marauders, as 



