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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 characters 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 pusilla. — 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 both 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, Novemher, 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 crawling 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 
from the glacier of the Vignemale, at a nearly equal height, a fine series of Ich- 
neumon antennatoriuSf 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 Phisia gamma, which swarms in the Pyrenees. There were also a few of 
Lygoius equestris, which Ramond mentions having noticed, together with a Bupestris, 
in his break-neck attempt to scale the Touqueroue glacier leading up to Mont 
Perdu.— T. A. Marshall, Milford, October, 1868. 
Lithobius forcipatus mothimj. — 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 Lithobius 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 
