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THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 



acuminata, Bemhiditnii ammile, Droiiiiiis nii/riventn's ; Anisodactyhis 

 binotatiiH occurred on the cliff line. 



Dytiscid.e. — Af/abiis paliidosiis was common and far more numerous 

 than A. nehuhmta ; Hj/droporus fiavipes abundant at Trefeithan ; H. 

 nif/Hta common; H. Kinbrosiix, H. lituratiis, CoelawbiiH cnnfiitens, 

 Bhantus nrapii. 



HYDROPHiLiDiE.— Among the Hydrophilidd were taken Philhydrns 

 cnarctatus, Ochthebius bicnlnr and a single Paracymns niyroaeneus. 

 Within the last two years I have found this last species in three 

 widely separated localities in S. Wales. 



Staphylinid.?5. — Philiinthns splendens, P. niyrita, P. ayilis, P. 

 viicans, Qiiediits fnlyidnii, Q. maurorufns, Q. scintillans, Staphylini(s 

 caesareiis, Leistotrop/iux viurinnx, Lathrobiuiii qitadratiim and L. termi- 

 natiiiii. Stt'UKs pallitarsis and 8. picipennis, were abundant in Merry 

 Vale. 



Rhyncophoea. — J/>/o?i niarcJiiciim, A. siibiilatwii and A. hydro- 

 lapathi, Fihync/iites DiuiiitiiK, Strnpho!i(»ifns faber, OtiorJnjnchiis atroaptenis, 

 AlnpJiiis triyiittatiis was common in one meadow, and several speci- 

 mens of Sitones cambricns were takn on St. David's Common. 



Other groups. — SiljjJta opaca, (.'arcinoj>s iinmina, Snbcoccinella 

 24:-j)i(nctata, L'/iryxnniela bauksi, PJiyllotreta niyripes and P. atra, 

 ManUira rnstica, Crepuhidera voitralis, Phaednn anitoraciae, Cassida 

 fiaveola ; Melor jiroscarabeiis was very common on the cliffs. 



It may be of interest to add that last August I found a specimen 

 of CriocepJialits ferns at Camberley. — J. W. Ali-en, 266, Willesden 

 Lane, N.W. 



CURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



His numerous English friends will be interested to hear that A. N. 

 Avinov has been serving with the Red Cross in Poland, and has been 

 through some exciting experiences in Lodz and elsewhere. He was 

 in that tow i during the early part of the winter, when it was entirely 

 surrounded by the enemy ; he narrowly escaped being killed by a 

 bomb dropped from a Taube, while he was admiring its graceful 

 evolutions over the very prominent Red Cross flag that was intended 

 to protect the hospital. For a long time the town was entirely cut ofl', 

 and the small garrison saw the enemy gradually closing in on them 

 from every side ; A. N. Avinov witnessed the terrific fighting when the 

 Germans attacked in mass, in entire confidence of victory, onl}' to be 

 defeated and driven back with appalling slaughter by the splendid 

 Russian troops, after five hours desperate battle. Shortly after that 

 the town was relieved, and the twenty-five thousand wounded safely 

 removed to a more secure shelter. 



On another occasion he was in a Red Cross train without an engine, 

 when the enemy began firing upon them ; the doctors and nurses were 

 obliged to get out on to the line, put their shoulders to the coach, and 

 actually push it down the line; by these means they succeeded after 

 tremendous efforts in getting their train full of wounded out of range 

 of the enemy's guns. 



A. N. Avinov is now back in Petrograd , where he has recently read 

 two very interesting papers, one on the subdivision of the Palaearctic 

 Region, based solely upon the Rhopalocera, the other upon the 



