24(j tilarch 
at intervals all the summer, and seems to have three broods. In this, 
however, I was partially disappointed, as pressure of business prevented 
my Avorking more than the first brood to any purpose. The first speci- 
men occurred on May 20th, and was followed by occasional specimens 
till May 30th, when I took two much worn, and after which they dis- 
appeared. Three days afterwards, however, in a damp portion of the 
same wood, I took a lovely specimen of the true subroseana, and in the 
next fortnight half-a-dozen more. This was most fortunate, as I had 
never taken it before, and, from meeting with the two species so nearly 
together, was able to compare them when fresh, and see how very 
distinct they really are. 
As far as my experience goes, both are truly wood frequenting 
species. Although heath is most abundant around Haslemere, I never 
saw a specimen of Heydeniana among or near it, and cannot, therefore, 
confirm Mr. McLachlan's habitat for this species. 
With reference to the localities given in the Manual for subroseana 
(and in "Wilkinson's Tortrices they are similar), "Ambleside and near 
Airthrey, in healthy places," when we began carefully to examine these 
species, Mr. Stainton, with his invariable kindness, sent me one of his 
Scotch specimens. This I found to be totally distinct from subroseana, 
but of precisely the/on;? of ciliella, but much yellower and more suflFused, 
By the kindness of Dr. "White, of Perth, and Mr. Chapman, of Glasgow, 
I have since received specimens taken near Kirkwall and at Dunoon, 
and these specimens form connecting links from this to the ordinary 
English type of ciliella, aud prove conclusively, I think, that these 
localities pertain properly to that species. 
^g^Norwich, February, 1869. 
Scydmamus fimetarius taken near Newcastle-on-Tyne. — I take here, by no : 
unfrequently, and always on boards lying on the edges of hot-beds, an insect which 
accords with the description, by Thomson, Skand. Col. iv, 89, of his Euconnus jime- 
tarius, and which has been recently added to the British list by Mr. G. E. Crotch, 
but rather doubtingly admitted by Mr. Eye in this year's " Annual." It appears, 
however, to be a good species, and, in addition to the characters pointed out by 
Thomson, has the elytra proportionately narrower than its near ally, hirticollis, of 
which a Norfolk example has been kindly furnished me by Dr. Sharp. — Thos. Jno. 
Bold, Long Benton, Newcastle-on-Tyne, January 26th, 1869. 
[Mr. Bold refers, I presume, to my remarks with regard to Thomson's apparent 
inconsistency in attributing so much specific value to the very moderate difference 
in habitat between S. hirticollis and S.^mefarms, whilst disregarding a more marked 
difference in habitat in the case of Bembidium ceneum and biguttatum. In. the 
