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states that it is a Pyrcnean species, another instance of identity of Ii-ish 

 and Spanish fauna. It was taken by beating- shrubs and trees. ^Ir. 

 Cuthbert took it on birch and alder. I had intended trying for it this 

 summer, but the bad weather made me give up all idea of the excur- 

 sion. Last month I spent a few days at co. Meath, and though it 

 was so late in the season, managed to pick up a few beetles. In 

 S]i/ia(/ni(i)i, on the mountain, I obtained an unicolorous specimen of 

 l>i>hipius iiKDiiiuatits, also XotiojiJiilits aqiiativus and Latlirohiiuii fnlri- 

 jioiiw. On a fine morning I picked up a couple of llalt'u-a palustris, 

 sunning themselves. At Greenore, under seaweed and stones, I took 

 Calathus fuscus, QuccUns impreNsits, Xantholimis punctulatm, Stenus 

 siiiiilis, HoinaUuin rivulare and Caamla nohilia ; this last had evi- 

 dently retired into winter quarters, for they were clinging to the 

 underside of stones. The shore at Greenore is, in the summer, a 

 capital place for the coleopterist. I have taken there Aniara fulva, A. 

 Iiifroits, Btinhidluin sa.ratile, Dichirotrichns jnibescens, (crcijon dejiressns, 

 ('. litturalis, Alcochara nitidn, A. i/rixca, Heterothops hinotata, McJimnp/i- 

 thalma fusciila, L'assiilajlareola, Anthiciin scoticus, Hijpera puhjiionl dA\(\ 

 SituHL's li uincralix. 



I have not been able to explore this immediate neighbourhood very 

 well yet, and my researches so far have not met with much success, 

 but there are many promising-looking places, and I hope to make 

 good use of my moss bag during the present winter. 



Bembidium lunatum, Duft, in the South of England. 



By G. A. LE^YCOCK. 



Some ten years having elapsed since the publication of the first 

 volume of " Ihfi Coleoptera of the British Islands,'' by Canon 

 Fowler, it will probably appear strange if I tigain revert to this subject ; 

 but although, in 1887 and 1888, I exhibited a series of B. Innatuni, 

 at the South London Entomological Society, and also at the City of 

 London Society, and stated the locality from whence I obtained them, 

 it is evident that some doubts still exist as to the occurrence of this 

 species in the south of England. The remarks in the above volume 

 would naturally give rise to this misconception. In the work in 

 question, under the heading Bcmhidinm, p. 102, B. ZMwnf/twi is included 

 in Group VII — beetles having elytra with yellow or orange markings. 

 A further tabulation splits the genus into twelve divisions, with regard 

 to coloration, and ^. lunatum is classed under No. 9, "elytra with 

 two distinct crescent-shaped patches at apex, and no other marJciin/s 

 (one of the largest species)." It would thus appear that no mistake 

 whatever, in respect to its identity, could occur with such precise 

 distinctions as are here laid down. At page 115 of the same work, 

 the author states that : " Two specimens have been recorded as taken 

 at Shooter's Hill, Greenwich, but there is no record from the London 

 district, and none at all from the southern district of England, where 

 it must, at all events, be very local, if it occurs at all." In the 

 footnote referring to the Greenwich locality, the author adds : " Since 

 writing the above, I have found reason to believe that there is very 

 probably some mistake with regard to this record." It does seem rather 

 remarkable that this insect has escaped the keen eyes of our foremost 



