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Licinus silphoides, F. — I was delighted to capture two speci- 

 mens of this beetle while turning over some stones in a quarry at Port- 

 land during the month of August. I had no time to make a good 

 search for others, but have no doubt that many more of this species 

 could be found there. — R. Beck, Burnside, Northlands Road, South- 

 ampton. 



Megacronus inclinans. — On the 12th October, I took three speci- 

 mens of this rare beetle, upon the sand hills between Hartlepool and 

 Hesleden Dene Mouth. It was a beautiful sunny afternoon, and 

 beetles literally swarmed, had it been possible for the whole ground to 

 have been gone over, to Black Hall Rocks, doubtless many more 

 good species would have been secured, as it was a day in a hundred 

 for the time of year. — J. Gardner, Hartlepool. 



Geotrupes pyrenjeus. — On the 29th August, I secured a very fine 

 specimen of this beautiful insect at Swanage. The upper surface is 

 most brilliant, indeed I think some persons might almost accuse me 

 of having given it a very fine coat of varnish.- — R. Beck, Southampton. 



Sirex gigas, juvencus, &c— Sirex gigas has been rather plentiful 

 about here this season. I had a very fine female brought to me 

 yesterday afternoon, by a cottager living near. I should say it had 

 but recently emerged, the wings being limp when I received it. It 

 had a pin transfixed laterally through its body, but seemed to be not 

 a bit inconvenienced by this. Three or four years ago a fine 5. 

 juvencus was caught in the house of my friend Dr. Arthur Buckell, 

 here, and given to me. And not far from my house on a manure heap 

 a fine example of the parasitic hymenopteron Rhyssa persuasona was 

 found, the largest specimen I should say ever taken. Ratzeburg gives 

 from 6 to 10 lines long, occasionally 14, as the dimensions. Mine ex- 

 ceeds even the latter measurement. It is the only specimen I have 

 seen except one captured almost at the same time at Bognor, about 7 

 miles from Chichester. — Joseph Alderson, Jr, Chichester. 



Sirex gigas in Essex. — Though I don't go in for the " Orders," 

 I possess a specimen of Sirex gigas, taken 10th July on the High road, 

 at Woodford. Subsequently, in going over my collection, I found that 

 a second (or rather first) example had been there for some years, and 

 I was ignorant of the fact.— Charles Oldham, Woodford. 



