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Eros affinis hred.—A^er considerable trouble, I have succeeded in breed 
Eros affinis, from small larvae obtained at Killarney in 1866 ; and I have also i 
it from Sherwood Forest larv^, found last year. The larva resembles that of 
Aurora. I have also bred Tiresias serra from Sherwood.— J. Kay Habdy, ] 
Embden Street, Hulme, Manchester, July, 1869. 
Nats on Saperda scalaris and other Coleoptera at Sherwood Forest.— In Jnii 
last I spent a fortnight at Sherwood, where, amongst other things, I found a sing, 
<? example of Saperda scalaris by beating an oalc. I also brought home six pupji 
found in company under oak bark, one of which did not come to maturity, tTit 
turned out a fine pair of S. scalaris, and the remaining htree were Phymltod. 
variabilis. From another pupa, found under rotten birch, I bred Phlwotry 
Stephensii. In the Forest, at large, I found a few Conopalpus testaceus and vai 
Vigorsii; also Cistela ceramboides, Eryx atra, Leptura scutellata, &c. As far as 
know, the oak is an unrecorded pabulum for 8. scalaris..— J. Kidson Taylor, Thow 
Cottage, Longsight, Lime Grove, Manchester, July, 1868. ' J* 
"Fireflies in Kent."-TJndeT this heading, in "The Times," of I7th inst 
"A.A." records the capture, at Ashford, of a luminous specimen of Lampyri^ 
itahca, and particularly calls attention to its soft yellow light, so difi-erent to tbi 
cold blue gleam of the English Glow-worm. It is to be hoped that some furthe' 
evidence will be forthcoming as to the identity of the species in question ; thou<.h 
after the occurrence of Phosphcenus at Lewes, it will not be safe to treat the abov. 
record as a light matter.— Eds.* 
Trichius fasciatus in South Wales.-lt may be of interest to some of yom 
readers to know that I have turned up this species in considerable numbers. ]' 
shall be glad to return specimens to anyone sending a box with return postage II 
flies rapidly and deftly in the sunshine, hawking from flower to flower with con- 
Biderable power of wing, and reminding one somewhat of Sesia bombylifo.-mis 
though without the wild " abandon" in its flght which characterizes that captair 
of rovers. 
My gardener, Eobert Stafi-ord, found it very locally confined to some marshj 
glades m a wood near my house, where the trees have been cut, and the under- 
growth is some two years old, and where thistle-blossom and Veronica offer it a 
profusion of flowery attractions. Once settled on a blossom, it may be taken easily 
with the fingers, but has the power, when annoyed, of emitting a pungent though 
inofiensive smell. ' 
Two examples, out of 150 recently taken, have the shoulder spot stoppingf^ 
short of the suture, thereby simulating the rarer T. abdominalis; and it is to suchi 
a variety of /asciaius that the single specimen mentioned by me years ago in the. 
"Intelligencer" must be referred.-JoHN T. D. Llewelyn, Ynisygerwn Neath- 
June 2lst, 1869. ' 
J!i"^^*''^.^'""'^ ^^^ '? 'yPe- we observe in the same Journal, 20th inst., 
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