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four dozen of this insect flying over the 
sallow-blossoms ; they were mostly males. 
■ Thomas Eedle, 9, Maidstone Place, 
Goldsmiths' Row, Hackney Road, N.E. ; 
May 21, 
CoLEOPTEttA. 
Wimbledon. — The long-continued rain 
has inundated the collecting-ground here, 
which at best is but a limited space ; 
still good sport can be had by working 
hard, using almost the same means as 
during the winter ; and species hitherto 
rare are turning up more plentifully — I 
allude particularly to the beautiful red 
JElater ephippium, formerly a New Forest 
timber species, and thought much about ; 
then taken by Dr. Power, in some quan- 
tity, on nettles at Wimbledon Common 
in the summer, and now found by myself 
and others under turf in the ground at 
the same locality, accompanied often by 
unmistakeable yellow wire-worms or larviB 
of Elaters (query, whether these being 
cylindrical are not the larvae of Agriotes 
lineatus or sputator P the wood-feeding 
section having, as I am informed, more 
flattened larvae ; anyhow, the fact remains 
that several specimens of ephippium have 
been found by different collectors here, 
and always under the surface of the soil). 
I was much surprised to find a large 
specimen of the elegant Ctenicerus tes- 
sellatus in a marshy spot here the other 
day, having often worked similar places 
(nay, the same place) without finding 
it, or indeed expecting to do so. A 
variety (i’) of the common Bradycellus 
fulvus occurs here somewhat abund- 
antly ; small, of a light colour, and 
with the hinder corners of the thorax 
quite rounded ; not exhibiting the 
slightest tendency to form an angle, like 
the species rufulus (Dejean) mentioned 
in this year’s ‘ Annual; ’ the large black- 
ish distinctus, Dej., with very acute hinder 
thoracic angles, I have found at Croydon, 
but not here. Of other species I have 
again taken the following: — 
Anchomenus versutus. 
••• sexpunctatus. 
Amara communis. ) My only lo- 
vulgaris. I cal ity for these 
Notiophilus aquaticus.J three. 
... palustris. 
Carabus arvensis. Both green and 
copper-coloured, 
Stenolophus dorsalis. 
Quedius boops. 
Conurus lividus. 
Hister neglectus. 
— E. C. Rye, 284, King’s Road, Chelsea, 
S.W. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Lithosia Aureola. — This insect made 
its appearance on the 12th instant, since 
which date several examples have been 
beaten from fir trees iu Cokethorpe Wood. 
Humphrey and Westwood give July as' 
the time of its appearance,” and Wood 
the middle of July, while the ‘ Manual’ 
allows it to appear towards the end of 
June, but not earlier. The author of the 
latter work, in remarking upon the Litho- 
sidae, observes that “ Rubricollis is the 
only species known to pass the winter in 
the pupa state, and is therefore the 
earliest to appear in the perfect state.” 
Now in this neighbourhood Aureola is 
invariably the first to appear, occurring 
every year several weeks before Rubri- 
collis or any other members of the family. 
— S. Si'ONE, Brightliampton ; May 18. 
Larvm of Fumea carnivorous. — On 
Saturday evening I put a fly into a jar 
containing five larvae of Fumea nilidella ; 
on the following morning a larva had got 
the fly in its jaws, and when I arrived 
home last evening I found that one wing 
and two legs were all that remained of 
the fly : I then pul some more flies into 
the jar, and this morning I found one fly 
in the jaws of a larva, and partly eaten. 
— Charles Healy, 74, Napier Street, 
lloxton, N.; May 21. 
