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sight of the leaf. A little more care in making statements of this kind is absolutely 

 necessary in writing on scientific matters. Errors once in print are very liable to be 

 perpetuated. To those who have paid much attention to the subject the one above 

 mentioned is obvious enough, but those unacquainted with the habits of Micros 

 might be easily misled, and it is a true saying that " first impressions are the strongest," 

 and most difficult to shake off. — R. M'Lachlan ; I, Park Road Terrace, Forest Hill, 

 August 6, 1863. 



Coleophora artemisicolella, Bruand. — I have bred this species from the cases feeding 

 on the seeds of Artemisia vulgaris. — R. S. Edleston ; Bowdon, near Manchester, 

 August 14, 1863. 



Description of a New British Zeugophora. — I send a brief description of what I 

 conceive to be an insect hitherto undesciibed, recently taken by Mr. Charles Turner 

 in Scotland. I can find nothing answering to it in Gyllenhal or Reiehtenbacher, nor 

 in any of the books to which I have access, and it certainly is not enumerated in the 

 Stettin Catalogue. I therefore venture to call it Zeugophora Turneri, after the inde- 

 fatigable and unrivalled collector who discovered it, and who richly deserves some such 

 acknowledgment of his exertions in the cause of British Entomology. 



Zeugophora Turneri, Power. 



Has the facies, general appearance, puncturing and pubescence of an immature 

 specimen of the common Z. subspinosa, but is somewhat larger and a little more elon- 

 gate. It is the only European species that I am acquainted with in which the elytra, 

 thorax, head, antennae and legs are uniformly testaceous-yellow. The abdomen, meso- 

 sternum, metasternum and eyes are alone deep black. The apex of the mandibles is 

 slightly pitchy. When compared with Z. subspinosa the head is more rugose and less 

 polished, less suddenly constricted behind, and the eyes are less prominent, causing 

 the form of the head to appear less triangular ; but the most remarkable structural 

 distinction is in the thorax, which differs from that of Z. subspinosa in being decidedly 

 broader, and the characteristic lateral projection is more prominent and more abruptly 

 produced, and instead of gradually sloping off towards the anterior margin of the 

 thorax, which exhibits a very slight angular projection on each side, it is continuous, 

 with a large angular process, giving the appearance of a kind of sinuous l< outrigger," 

 and causing the anterior thoracic margin to appear very broad and level with the outer 

 third of the eye, whereas in the other species it extends little beyond the inner border 

 of it. I have examined a very fine series of the insect, and find no variation what- 

 ever. It feeds, I believe, on the birch. In the collection of the British Museum I 

 find two specimens of an unnamed Zeugophora very like this insect (if not identical 

 with it), collected by Mr. Barnston in the neighbourhood of Hudson's Bay. They 

 are awkwardly pinned, and appear somewhat shorter, with the antennas a little stouter, 

 and the abdomen is testaceous, but with a tendency to be pitchy towards the base. 

 They may be immature. Mr. Turner has also, amongst other rare insects, obtained 

 a few most magnificent specimens of the beautiful Athous undulatus, which he dis- 

 covered at Rannock about three years since, but of which, until the present time, we 

 were acquainted only with one broken specimen in the collection of the British Museum, 

 and a pair of elytra in that of the Rev. A. Matthews. — John A. Power ; 52, Burton 

 Crescent; August 18, 1863. 



Monohammus dentator : Is it British P — In April last I had two larvae of this 

 species brought to me feeding on English larch : one was damaged, and consequently 



