\Q^ I December, 
sambucalis, E. verbascalis, Spilodes cinctalis, Phycis rohorella, Melia sociella, Halias 
prasinana, H. quercana (of this lovely insect I have bred a number of specimens 
from larvBB found on oak), H. chlorann, Phtheochroa rugosana, Argyrolepia Baumann- 
iana (took a dozen or so), Tinea semifulvella (one specimen), Adela De-Qeerella 
(common), Dasycera Oliviella, Sfc. 
I think that this long list shows that at any rate, so far as this district is 
concerned, this is not by any means a bad season, and I shall be very glad to learn 
that my brother collectors in other parts have been as successful as we have been 
here. I vdsh it to be distinctly understood that at present I offer no duplicates 
for exchange, and if I receive as many letters during the next week or two as I 
have received on former occasions when I have published lists of my captures, my 
correspondents must not blame me if some of them receive no answers. — W. H. 
Habwood, St. Peter's, Colchester, July IWi. 
Notes on Coleoptera taken at Putney. — The few and short opportunities afforded 
to me for collecting since my removal to this place have convinced me that it is a 
first-rate locality for beetles ; as I have already not only made acquaintance with 
divers species never before seen alive by me, but have also taken three or four 
new to my collection. 
My best captures have been made out of and upon a large, very old, and long 
since dead beech-tree, much tenanted under its sheets of dry bark by Onisci, and 
(strange to say) by not a few large Noctuw. Under tliis bark, nearly always 
accompanied by Oniscus, invariably adhering to the tree in preference to the bark, 
and mostly frequenting the under-side of the junction of some large limb with the 
parent trunk, or some other corner where a little extraneous damp had collected 
(for the inherent moisture of the tree had long since departed), I was lucky enough 
to " happen upon " Bro^ites planatus, hitherto represented in our catalogues, with 
the suspicion of doubt as to their British origin, by three specimens taken by my 
friend Mr. Douglas at Blackheath. There can, however, be no doubt that the 
insect is truly indigenous to this country ; as I obtained several specimens, of both 
sexes, with the var. pallida (not immature), and larvas ; and the tree wherein I 
found them is amongst other undoubtedly British trees, not felled, and a long way 
from any habitation or cultivated ground. The majority of my specimens were 
found at some distance up the tree ; though I lately obtained one or two under the 
bark below the surface of the ground, in company with the larvae of Pyrochroa. 
The Brontes runs with great speed, and " twiddles " its antennae rapidly about. 
I have a lively recollection of hanging on to a large bough, at a considerable 
elevation, with ancles and fingers, like a sloth ; and, after tearing away the bark 
with one hand, and shutting my eyes to avoid the shower of dust, &c., of seeing 
five Brontes radiating at their best pace in different directions. However, I secured 
all (breaking, alas ! three of thcin) by a rapid manual application of saliva. 
Under loose bark covering a slight fungoid growth, on the same tree, I also 
found one specimen of the Hallomenus fiiscus of Wat. Cat., which Mr. Crotch has 
recently informed us is Anisoxya fusca, 111., and of which only two British examples 
were lately known ; one taken by Dr. Power, and the other by Mr. Brewer, and 
now in the National Collection. I also took one or two speoimeus of Tetratoina 
