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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
gencer,’ and that anybody wishing to 
exchange will oblige me by writing first. 
— Roland Trimen, 71, Guildford Street, 
Russell Square, IV. C. ; Nov. 20. 
Close of the Season. — I now send a list 
of insects taken at sugar and ivy in 
our neighbourhood during the last two 
months; they are mostly all common, 
but nevertheless it may be interesting to 
a few of the many subscribers of the ‘ In- 
telligencer.’ We have had some heavy 
rain, which has quite annihilated the ivy 
bloom, and so I am afraid I shall do little 
more this season : — 
INSECTS TAKEN AT SUGAB. 
Agrotis saucia (3), 
Xylina rhizolitba (5), 
„ petrificata (1), 
Calocampa exoleta (1), 
Thera juniperaria (1), 
Harpalyce immanaria (common). 
TAKEN AT IVY. 
Agrotis suffusa (abundant), 
„ segetum „ 
Orthosia lota „ 
„ macilenta „ 
Anthocelis lunosa „ 
„ pistacina „ 
Xanthia ferruginea „ 
Glsa spadicea „ 
„ Vaccinii „ 
Miselia Oxyacantbae „ 
Plusia Gamma „ 
Phlogophora meliculosa „ 
Xanthia rufina (1), 
Hoporina croceaga (5), 
Scopelosoma Satellilia (1), 
Dasycampa rubiginea (1), 
Hadena protea (1), 
Xylina petrificata (1), 
Calocampa exoleta (2), 
Scopula ferrugalis (3), 
Stenopteryx hybrid alis (common), 
Phiesyle Psittacaria (1), 
„ Miaria (1), 
Cheimatobia dilutaria (common). 
Of the specimens of S. ferrugalis one was 
caught early in October ; the other two, 
one on the 9th and the other on the 13th 
of this month. Is not this very late? — 
G. Mathews, Raleigh House, near Barn- 
staple ; Nov. 2 1 . 
CoLEOPTEnA. 
Tomicus Saxesenii, $-c. — On the 17th 
of October last I was fortunate enough 
to take a few examples of a small cylin- 
drical wood-boring beetle in decayed elm 
on Wandsworth Common, which have 
been kindly determined to be the above 
species by Messrs. Janson and Water- 
house; it is apparently new to Britain, 
being taken hitherto in Germany. I 
mention this as an encouragement to 
other novices, this being my first season 
of collecting the smaller Coleoptera. 
Under the bark of the same tree I found 
Siagonium quadricorne, Homalota plana, 
Salpingus planirostris, Mecinus semicy- 
lindricus, and a small species allied to 
Cucujus, also Rhizophagus ( ferrugi - 
neusP). Under the bark of elm at Roc- 
ham pton I took the larvae and perfect 
insect of Ischnomera coerulea, the latter 
hybernating in oval cells, slightly lined 
with silk, having only recently come to 
maturity. In the same tree were Rhyn- 
colus eglindrirostris aud a species of 
Bruchus, and Dromius agilis under the 
bark. Crioceris Asparagi occurs plenti- 
fully in little societies under bark near 
the Brompton Cemetery. At the roots 
of willows on the towing-path between 
Putney and Hammersmith I have re- 
cently taken Philonthus marginal us, , Ocy- 
pus compressus, Coprophilus striatulus, 
Clivina fossor, Sunius angustatus, Dro- 
tnius foveolus , Phaidon inarginella and 
Chrysomela polita, also Patrohus exca~ 
vatus, Omaseus minor, Anchomenus pal- 
lipcs, uligitiosus and nacstus, aud Phaidon 
Vilcllimc in swarms. The trunks of the 
willows are plentifully studded with empty 
cases of Cerura vinula. Whilst looking 
ior small Coleoptera, I have recently 
