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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



wing at the Fox Hills, near Aldershot, but, being without my net, I 

 was unable to capture more than two of them, one of which, however, 

 bit so furiously that I was glad to release it, when it darted away and 

 was immediately lost to view. I was also informed by a young 

 coleopterist at Woking that it had been very common at Chobham 

 during the past season. It is likewise recorded by Dr. E. Capron, 

 [Entomologist) as occurring at Sheire. It may be said to frequent the 

 various heaths from Esher, Woking, Farnham, and those stretching 

 down as far as Bournemouth. 



C. germanica, L. — The smallest and narrowest British species. 

 My specimens were received from Dr. E. Capron, who captured them 

 at Black-Gang-Chine, in the Isle of Wight, where it sometimes oc- 

 curs freely. It has recently been taken at Swanage, and was also 

 taken by the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge, between Bridport and 

 Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, July, 1889. " It appears to be confined to 

 a very small spot. I had no time to search closely for it, but picked 

 up four fine specimens as I passed quickly over the ground, on which 

 there were others running about. It did not attempt to fly though the 

 sun was shining brightly. The Rev. W. W. Fowler, Coleoptera of 

 the British Islands, mentions it as recorded in Dorset by Dawson, but 

 gives no more precise locality, and says that " Black-Gang-Chine, Isle 

 of Wight, appears to be the only locality in which it is now taken." I 

 have felt it necessary for obvious reasons, to refrain from giving the 

 exact spot, but shall be very happy to communicate it to any bona fide 

 amateur coleopterist who may be in that neighbourhood and desire to 

 search for it." (Entomologist, July, 1889.) 



In the British Museum Collection, Students' Department, besides 

 six pinned typical specimens, there are three of a darker form. 



The life-history of this genus has been fully set forth by many 

 writers; the latest is that by Mr. E. A. Butler, of the British Museum, 

 in Knowledge, during the present year. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



December 4, 1889. — The Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, M.A., F.R.S., President, 

 in the chair. 



Prof. Franz Klapalek, of the Zoological Department, Royal Museum, Prague, 

 was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. W. L. Distant exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Lionel de Niceville, a branch of 

 a walnut tree, on which was a mass of eggs laid by a butterfly belonging to the 



