230 
[March, 
the beetles were brought alive from America by their possessor ; the Devonshire 
farmers are said to be much dissatisfied at the small amount of the fine.— Eds.] 
Prices of rare exotic Coleoptera . — At the sale at Stevens’s rooms on the 11th 
Februaiy, of the collection of Coleoptera formed by the late Mr. J. Aspinall Turner 
(formeily M.P. for Manchester), the following prices were obtained for some of the 
most conspicuous lots. Lot 61, consisting of 2 Euchirus Dupontianus, 2 E. Macleayi, 
3 E. Canto / i, and 3 E. IfardwicJcii, realized £8. Lot 91, 2 fine Goliathus giganteus, 
sold for £7. Lot 92, 1 G. giganteus, 1 fine G. KirJcii, $ , and 1 probable variety of 
the $ of G. cacicus, sold for £20. Lot 95, a fine and perfect Ischnoscelis Dohrni , 
fetched £10. Lot 96, 1 I. Dohrni and 7 Ceratorrhina setulosa, fetched £7. Lot 
97, a fine pair of Goliathus Fornassinii, realized £24. Lot 101, 1 Ceratorrhina 
Savagei and 2 C. Polyphemus, sold for £5 10s. Lot 149, Hypocephalus paradoxus, 
sold for £10. Lot 154, a pair of Macrotoma Uayesi and other good Prionidce , 
realized £8. The general opinion appeared to be that rarities fetched extreme 
prices, whereas fine sets of more ordinary species sold very cheaply. 
ftotes on Mr. Saunders Synopsis of British Heterogyna and Fossorial Hy- 
menoptera . — 
lapmoma polita, Smith. Bournemouth; one specimen ( $ ), J. C. Dale. 
Not Wales. The late Mr. Smith misread Bournemouth as Barmouth. 
Additional localities — 
Ponera contracta, Latr. Ventnor, Deal, C. W. Dale. 
Leptothorax acervorum, Fab, appears to me to be as much a southern as a 
northern species, as it is common in both Hampshire and Dorsetshire. 
L. unifasciata, Latr. Bare. Isle of Wight, Seaton, Portland, and Lulworth, 
C. W . Dale. Not Sherborne. 
Myrmecma Latreillei, Curt. Several places in Dorsetshire and Hampshire. 
Aporus unicolor, Spin. Yery rare. Middlemarsh, Dorset : one, J. C. Dale 
1835. 
Priocnemis hyalinatus, Fab. Parley Heath. 
Agenia variegata, Linn. Rare. Glanvilles Wootton, Portland. 
Dal 0 Didi " eiS irevicornis ’ Fab - Bri8tol > Walcot; Glanvilles Wootton, Lulworth, 
Crabro apliidum, St. Farg. Herne, Hants, J. C. Dale, J ? , July 25tli, 1842. 
C. signatus, Panz. Glanvilles Wootton, $ , C. W. Dale, June 20th, 1867. 
^ Oxybelus mandibularis , Dbm. Appledore, Devon, J. C. Dale, July 21st, 1831. 
— C. \\. Dale, Glanvilles Wootton, Sherborne, Dorset: February, 1881. 
An Ichneumon new to Britain ( Mesolius rufilabrisj.— At Wymondley I took, 
in August, two specimens of a fine ichneumon which Mr. Fitch has named for me 
Mesolius ruflabris, Zett, new to Britain.-E. A. Butler, Hastings • February 
14-th, 1881. 3 
Ophion minutum at Hastings. -I have to record the capture of a specimen of 
Ophion minutum (vide The Entomologist, vol. xiii, p. 54), at Hastings during the 
past season. It has been identified by Mr. Fitch.— F. Walter Savage, University 
School, Hastings : February, 1881. 
