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Species. I may just say with refer- 
ence to my acquisitions in the way 
of ants’ nest beetles, or, to speak 
scientifically, myrmecophilous coleop- 
tera, that no colony of ants has to 
rue the day when I approached it. 
All the specimens which I obtained 
were lured away from the nest, not 
captured in it. Stones, bricks, etc. 
laid on the sides of the nests, 
yielded scanty supplies. Some 
cracked chips of wood lying about 
where a tree had been felled, which 
I substituted for the bricks and 
stones, soon produced a harvest. 
All my captures were made from 
about two nests, visited only two or 
three times. This shows that it is 
not necessary to overturn an ant’s 
nest to get beetles. Had I been 
able to visit the nests often, I doubt 
not that I should have got all the 
species that are thus obtainable. I 
have never met with a nest of F. 
fuliginosa in the London district. — 
Thos. Blackbukn, The Tews, Wood- 
ford, N. 
Lepidoptera. 
Larva of Acronyta Alni . — I took 
a larva of this rare species this 
afternoon near Hale Moss. — B. M. 
Geldart, Bose Hill, Bowdon, 20 th 
August, 1863. 
Captures in July and August . — 
During this and the past month I 
have taken the following lepidop- 
tera : — 
Z. fiUpendulce. Very common on 
the railway banks here, but I have 
never taken it before the present 
season. 
C. elinguaria. Several. 
0. potatoria. Bred. 
E. mensuraria. 
O. plumbaria. Common on Brigh- 
ton Downs. 
B. perla. 
L. impura. Common. 
A. psi. 
A. megacephala. 
M. maura. 
C, bifida. A fine specimen on a 
fence under some willow trees. 
I have also taken larvce of 
8. populi. 
E. jacobcece. 
B. hirtaria. 
S. Davies, Seven Sisters’ Boad, 
Holloway, N. 
Shropshire Captures . — I adjoin a 
brief list of captures during the past 
month, chiefly remarkable for its 
poverty. In fact I never saw so 
completely blank a season. On the 
wing, in the garden, I get nothing 
but Pronuba, and on sugar almost 
absolutely nothing. Common larvce 
are the only things, which seem 
pretty plentiful. 
E. Becoloraria. July 13th. 
P. Iota. July 15th. 
T. Janthina. August 1st and 3rd. 
A. Virgularia. August 1st. 
P. Chi. Bred, August 1st; caught, 
August 17th. 
