276 [April, 
oviposition ; and, where there is so little room for superfluons fluid, the draining 
away of the egg-contents would surely leave some trace. I have, therefore, little 
hesitat ion in asserting that the egg is eaten by Ajphodius porcus. — T. Algernon 
Chapmak, Abergavenny, March, 1869. 
Habitats of Ctenicerus pectinicornis and C. civpreus. — Stephens in his " Manual 
of Biitish Beetles " assigns as locality for the former of these species ; " grassy 
places in elevated districts ;" and to the latter, " similar situations with the 
foregoing." I have, however, always found C. cupreus at considerably higher 
altitudes than C. pectinicornis. Thus the latter abounds in June, in meadows about 
Stockport and Staleybridge ; but, on ascending the flanks of Shaw Moor, it is 
entirely replaced by C. cupreus, at the height of about eight hundred feet above the 
sea level. In central Europe the same rule appears to hold good, C. pectinicornis 
prevailing at the base of the mountains in Bohemia, whilst cupreus (along with 
castan&iis in smaller numbers) ascends to about two thousand feet above the sea. — 
J. W. Slater, Lord Street, Halifax, 'Ith January, 1869. 
A Trogosita dest/ructive to silk. — On a recent visit to Basle, my friend Mr. H. 
Knecht presented me with a specimen of an apparently undescribed Trogosita, 
several of which were found alive in the interior of a bale of raw silk imported 
direct from China. The beetles (or their larvae ? ) had gnawed through some of the 
tightly packed layers of silk, thus materially injuring its value for industrial purposes. 
— Albert Muller, Penge, S.E., March, 1869. 
Note on Apion scrohicolle, Gyll. — This insect, of which the sole recorded locality 
is England, appears to have hitherto escaped a place in our lists. It was described 
by Gyllenhal in Schonherr's Syn. Ins., v, p. 379, 9, and a translation of that des- 
cription is to be found at p. 13 of the recent monograph of the Apionides (' L' Abeille') 
by M. Wencker, who places it next to A. suhulatum, in the second section (having 
the rostrum gradually subulated, and the tarsi black in both sexes) of his first group, 
Suhulirostres. M. "Wencker reproduces Gyllenhal's locality without addition or 
comment ; and the insect is accredited to Britain only in De Marseul's catalogue, 
which of course also follows the latter author. It is described as black, almost 
glabrous, with a short wide head, of which the vertex is convex and smooth ; a 
rostrum as long as the head and thorax, slightly curved, distiuctly subulate towards 
the apex, and brilUant j a transverse thorax, almost half as wide again as long, 
strongly and closely punctured, with a short deep stria in the middle of its base ; 
wide elytra, rounded at the shoulders and extremity, with projecting humeral callus, 
rather deep punctured striaB, and flat, finely shagreened, glabrous, slightly shining 
interstices ; and long, stout, black legs.— E. C. Eye, 7, Park Field, Putney, S.W., 
March, 1869. 
Discovery of a new British Bee {Colletes cunicularia, L.). — The announcement 
of an addition to the list of the British Apidw is an incident of rare occurrence ; 
in my opinion this should not be the case, and I am satisfied it would be otherwise if 
Entomologists, when visiting remote or rarely-frequented localities, particularly at 
early periods of the year, were to capture a few Hymenoptera as well as the insects 
of the more favourite orders, Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. 
