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A. an cilia, Lop. (glabricollis, Thoms.), differs from it in its shining, 
glabious thorax, in the pleurae being entirely luteous, the antennae 
more clayate, &c. 
b or this species I am indebted to Mr. Allen Ilarker, who sent me 
the larvae last autumn from near Gloucester, where he found them 
feeding on Scutellaria galericulata , and from these I succeeded in 
rearing the perfect insects during the last week in June. 
Ihe larva is of a deep velvety black colour. On the sides at the top are twelve 
white tubercles, which are longer than broad ; over the legs there is a row of larger 
and more oval tuberoles of the same colour, while above these, on the abdomen, 
there is a row of smaller white tubercles situated above the space separating the 
larger ones below them, this middle row of tubercles being of the same shape as 
those on the top. The head is deep black, and covered with a moderately long pile ; 
the legs are fuscous-black, the abdominal legs white, or dirty white. The skin is 
rough, and of a velvety texture. In habits and mode of pupation, it does not differ 
from the other Athalia larvae. 
It is, I believe, the larva of scutellarice which Dahlbom figures as 
that of A. annulata in his Prod. Hymen. Scand., pi. ii, f. 44. The 
arrangement of the tubercles is the same, but he gives the colour of 
the body as glaucous. The food-plant of the larva is not mentioned, 
but the imago is stated (/. c., p. 67) by Drewsen (from whom Dahlbom 
received the larva in spirit from which his figure was taken) to 
frequent Brassica rap a, in July. A totally different account is, how- 
ever, given of the larva of A. annulata by Ivaltenbach, who says that 
it is dull black, whitish on the sides, and that it feeds on Veronica 
beccabunga (Pdanzenfeinde, p. 471). 
Glasgow : July, 1880. 
(To be continued) . 
Captures near Hastings. — The following notes contain the record of the best 
things I have met with amongst the Coleoptera and Hemiptera in the neighbourhood 
of Hastings during the past three years. 
Coleoptera. 
Rarpalus servus — one at roots of coarse herbage on Camber sandhills at the moutn 
of the Rother, in July, 1879. 
Ilydroporus latus — one at Hollington, in June, 1879. 
Staphylinus latebricola — one at roots of heather at Darvel’s Hole, near Nctherfield, 
in April, 1879. 
Ct/rtusa pauxilla — occasionally at Newgate Wood and Guestling. 
Odontceus mobilicornis — two in 1877, one near Hollington, the other at Guestling. 
Athous difformis — two $ and one ? in June, 1878, at Hastings, close to the town. 
Priobium castaneum— not unfrequently at Hastings, Guestling, and Fairlight. 
