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vorax, Hbst., A. viciniiin, Kirb., and Helophoriis riif/osus, 01. — (Prof.) 

 T. Hudson Beare, B.Sc, 10, Eegent Terrace, Edinburgh. April 2nd, 

 1910. 



Steni in Scotland in March. — I have had two or three oppor- 

 tunities, during the glorious spring Aveather which has characterised 

 the last half of March in the east of Scotland, of working moss and 

 flood refuse, and have found many species of the genus Stenua in great 

 abundance. At Dunkeld, the following occurred: — Steniis jnuo, F., 

 speculator, Lac, r/injneineri, Duv., inipresxitsi, Germ., nitidiu-scidiis, 

 Steph., ar'tilis, Hbst., tarsalis, Ljun., and latifrons^, Er., all in moss. 

 At Leadburn, also in moss, similiK, Hbst., foceicollis, Kr., biipthalnnis, 

 Gr., and pai/anus, Er. At Cobbinshaw, in refuse around the shores of 

 the Loch, pnhescens, Steph., canaliciilatun, Gyll., hiipthahinis, Gr., 

 iiitidinncidus, Steph., bifoceolatus, Gyll., tarsalis, Ljun., jiino, F., 

 hrnnnipes, Steph., speculator, IjSlC. ,impressiis. Germ., ossiimi, Steph. — Id. 



Ptinella britannica. Matt., in a Mole's Nest. — On March 20th 

 last, when digging up a mole's nest at Burwell Fen with my friend, 

 Dr. Nicholson, I found a specimen of this very rare beetle. This is 

 the fourth example that has occurred, the first was taken by Matthews 

 on the back of a slug. Dr. Joy took the second in a mole's nest, a 

 third was recorded from France. — Horace Donisthorpe, F.Z.S., 58, 

 Kensington Mansions, South Kensington, S.W. April 12tJi, 1910. 



Recording Coleoptera. — It would greatly facilitate the labour of 

 those who are compiling local, or county, lists, or are working at the 

 British distribution of Coleoptera, if all coleopterists would mark 

 with an asterisk when recording captures of beetles, such species as 

 are new to the district, or the county, or when this is not possible, 

 from a locality not given for the species in Fowler's Coleoptera "f the 

 British Isles. In last year's Eat. Mo. Ma/j., Mr. Tomlin published 

 some most interesting and useful lists of beetles from Herefordshire, 

 nearly all the insects, say nine-tenths of these lists, were new records, 

 but the tenth would be perhaps recorded in Fowler from " the Malvern 

 Hills," say, where Mr. Tomlin also recorded it from ! It thus meant 

 that every one of these insects had to be checked with Fovv^ler before 

 the records could be made use of, a great waste of time and labour, 

 which could have been avoided if the nine-tenths had been marked 

 with an asterisk ! I think I may say I know the British distribution 

 of our Coleoptera as well as most, but it is impossible for anyone to 

 remember the exact distribution of over 3000 species. As I am 

 endeavouring to keep records of our species up-to-date, I shall be very 

 much obliged if coleopterists will kindly fall in with this plan.^ — Id. 



j^ClENTIFIC NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



The Reazzino Melit^a. — In the March number of the Ent. Eec, 

 Dr. Chapman has pronounced ex cathedra on the Reazzino Melitaea as 

 being a local race of M. dictynna, on the very insufficient ground of a 

 similarity in the <? genitalia. The grounds, given elsewhere at some 

 length, on which I had pronounced it to be M. britomartis, were entirely 

 different, and I still maintain them to be sufficient, especially when it 

 is remembered that there is a brood of 3/. dictipma, at Reazzino, be- 

 tween the two broods of M. britomartis. As I am already treating of 

 the subject in a long paper in the Entomoloyist, it is manifestly im- 



