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peculiarity in the thoracic punctuation. This is asymmetrical there 

 being three punctures in the right series and four in tlie left. Rev. 

 W. F. Johnson has noticed a similar arrangement in a specimen of 

 P. siiaicola latel)^ taken at Cultra, County Down. Could any reader 

 of the " British Naturalist who possesses a large series of Philonthi 

 state wiietlier they have found such aberrations from normal structure 

 anyway frequent ? I have not noticed any others amongst my insects. • 



— H. G. CuTHBERT, Blackrock, Dublin. 



PoL\t)MMATUS ViRGAUREA.—I was much interested in vour resuiiu- 

 on this subject, and 1 think you have proved your case v^dthout me. 

 I feel very sad to tliink my collecting days are over, I liave had so 

 much success in that line. Who was the " Mr. Denny " alluded to in 

 your paper, I am half inclined to thmk he his identical with Mr. 

 Downey, of Cambridge, who identified my Vivg-anvea and Dlspar, and 

 others, which I took at Yaxley and Holme Fens. — E. L. Layard, 

 Budleigh Salterton, November 27th, 1892. 



C. xi^RAMPELiNA. — I Only took tour specimens of C. xernmpcl'nia 

 here this season, and they were all of the ordmary type. 1 have 

 searched every year lor the vav. nmcolor, but hitherto v.'ithout success. 

 Last year at the Nunnery, 1 found a very worn xernmpeliua at rest on 

 an ash tree, which possibly is this variety, but its wmgs are too rubbed 

 to be of any use. I have taken some very dark specimens of T. gothica. 



— H. Shortridge-Clarke, Douglas, Isle of Man. 



l^REEDiNG OF THE QuAiL. — Pevdix Cotiivuex in Derbyshire. My 

 son has had sent him four eggs out of a nest of nine, taken this season 

 on the Burton Sewage Farm, none of the workmen was able to identity 

 bird or the eggs. I have compared them with those figured in 

 Hewitson's, and have no doubt of the species. Not having seen any 

 account of the species nesting m the Midlands I thought this may be 

 of interest. — G. Pullen, Derby. 



S. Bertrami, etc., in Ayrshire. — I spent a few days at 

 Mauchline, in Ayrshire, in July, when 1 came across S". bertrami in 

 great numbers. 11. vel/eda was also very common, and the var. 

 i^allicus could be freely taken. I also took Gemina, Fesiu:<f, V . aiireum , 

 Iota, and Fasciaria. — A. Adie Dalglish, Glasgow. 



CoLEOPTERA NoTES. — Doiuicia crassijjes. — On June 9th, I captured 

 three specimens of beetle at Christchurch. - R. Beck, Southampton. 



Clytus uiysticus. — I have also taken this montii (June), Clytus 

 mysticiis at Emery Down, Lyndhurst. — Id. 



