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ture of clay, in which they construct the 
most beautifully finished tunnels, or gal- 
leries, smoothed and polished, in a way 
which no other British ant can effect; 
and having also obtained the experience 
of Continental Hymenopterists on the 
habit of this species, I call particular at- 
tention to this fact: — at page 87 of Mr. 
Jansen’s paper will be found the follow- 
ing observation: — “Those who have an 
opportunity of examining the nest of this 
species ( F . cunicularia), which generally 
constructs its habitation in decaying 
trees.” This is exactly the habit of F. 
fuliginosa, but I have never found F. 
cunicularia in such a situation, and I feel 
quite satisfied that entomologists will 
only waste their time in looking for it in 
decaying trees. It is in the nest of this 
species, Mr. Janson says, we may proba- 
bly find the rare Euryusa sinuata — F. 
Smith, 27, Richmond Crescent, Isling- 
ton ; May 14, 1857. 
Captures in Scotland. — Since my last 
communication I have been much en- 
gaged with Endromis Versicolora, and 
have taken a fine series, both male and 
female. I think the habitats and eco- 
nomy of this insect are but imperfectly 
known. Few things come to the sallow 
bloom, but all are attracted to sugar, 
among which are Tamiocarnpa gothica 
and ruhricosa : these are of a very dark 
red, quite different from those taken in 
England. Slabilis and Instabilis in 
splendid variety. Some few small things 
are just making their appearance. In 
Coleoptera 1 have taken some fine 
things ; but the most splendid of all, 
and which, when seen alive on his native 
moors, with the sun shining on his bur- 
nished coat, is indeed a sight to a Co- 
leopterist, is Carabus nitens ; Ips 4 -ma- 
culata ; several good E later ; among 
them is Ampedus trislis, and many 
others of which I do not at present recol- 
lect the names. The Hymenoptera and 
Diptera are also making their appear- 
ance. — H. J. Harding, Kinloch 
Rannoch, Perthshire ; May 12, 1857. 
COLEOPTERA. 
We have already insisted on the im- 
portance of maritime districts to the Co- 
leopterist during the spring; and there 
is probably no part of our coast, as a 
whole, so productive as the south of the 
Isle of Wight. Those collectors, there- 
fore, who are contemplating a little sport 
before the summer fairly sets in, would 
do well to give the Undercliff a promi- 
nent place in their mind’s eye. Of so 
southern a character, indeed, is its 
Fauna, as compared with that of bleaker 
and less sheltered shores, that we might 
nearly imagine ourselves at times (and 
when the weather is particularly fine) in 
a Mediterranean latitude, beginning 
almost involuntarily to look out for 
Pimelice, Tenlyricc, Tagenice and Asidce, 
and such-like subaustral people of a He- 
teromerous type. 
We need scarcely remind our incipient 
adventurers that the Isle of Wight is 
implanted in the English Channel, off 
the coast of Hampshire, and is within 
access of London. Proceeding by rail 
to either Portsmouth or Southampton, 
you find steamers, ad nauseam, ready to 
convey you to either Ryde or Cowes. 
The former is the better place to make 
for, as being, not only itself one of the 
best entomological districts in England 
(and, therefore, worthy of a passing 
search), but because the coaches start 
from thence to the Undercliff. Although 
we mention the Undercliff as the grand 
point to proceed to, the whole line of the 
south coast, from the chalky Culvers (via 
Sandown, Sbankliu, Luccombe, Bon- 
church and Venlnor,) to St. Catherine’s 
and Niton, may be profitably explored, 
each successive soil (for the geological 
structure of that region is singularly 
