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It is evident, therefore, that the majority of specimens of II. ovidum recorded 

 from Britain are realij H. Ixvivsculus. The mistake seems to have arisen from the 

 fact that Fowler describes H. Iseviusculns as being ratlier a light coloured species, 

 whereas in colour it appears to only differ from H. ovuliim in having the elytra 

 pitchy-black instead of quite black. I have not the original descriptions of the two 

 species before me, but think it worth while giving the points of distinction I notice 

 between the two species from the speciniens kindly identified for me by Mons. 

 Fauvel. In both the antennae are dark-pitcliy black, but in H. ovulum the club is 

 much narrower and longer, the last joint being particularly thin and long. In R. 

 Iseviusculus the thorax is distinctly but diffusely punctured, in H. ovulum it is 

 almost impunctate. The elytra in H. la?viusculus are obviously longer than the 

 thorax, and are rather thickly and distinctly punctured and pubescent ; in S. 

 ovulum they are only as long as the thorax, very finely and diffusely punctured and 

 more shining. — NoRMAN H. Jot, Bradfield, near Heading : Jauuaiy lOfh, 1907. 



Further captures of Carpophilus sexpuslulatus, F., and other beetles uear Don- 

 caster. — On the afternoon of February 28th, the weather being warm and genial, 

 Dr. Corbett, his son, aiid myself, paid a visit to Wheatley Wood. Some much- 

 weathered carcases of hooded crows which had fallen from a " keeper's tree " 

 attracted the attention of Dr. Corbett, and a little beating over a sheet of paper pro- 

 duced four specimens of the above-named rare insect ; further assiduous beating by 

 his son and myself resulting in our each obtaining two specimens more. 'J'he species 

 has thus been taken in three localities near Doncaster, this latest locality being very 

 near to Sandal Beat Wood, where Dr. Corbett took his first specimen in 1904-, as 

 noted in Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xlii, p. 179. Apparently the occurrence of C. sexpus- 

 tulatus in carcases has not been recorded, although its congener, C. hemipterus, L., 

 has been found in such pabulum. 



Amongst other species noted either on the move or in hibernation the follow- 

 ing may be mentioned : — Dermestes lardarlus, L., D. murinus, L., Nitidnla bipus- 

 tiilata, L., Necrobia violacea, L., Omosita diseoidea, ¥., in carcases ; Xiljjha atrata, 

 L., and Phyllotreta nemorum, L., hibernating in rotten wood; Tetratoma fan- 

 gorum, F., in profusion in fungi on an old bii'ch tree ; and Rhizophagus bipustula- 

 tus, F., under bark. — E. Gt. Bayford, 2, Rockingham Street, Barnsley : Mar., 1907. 



Medon castaneus, Grav., and other Coleoptera in moles' nests near Oxford. — 

 Dr. Joy's very valuable notes on the Coleoptera associated with the mole, :it p. 198 

 of our last volume, have induced me to devote some time (and no small amount of 

 labour) to the investigation of the numerous moles' nests in the neighbourhood of 

 this city. To the growing list of beetles already recorded from them, I have much 

 pleasure in adding Medon castaneus, Grav. Of this rare species, already met with 

 at large in the district (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xli, p. 133), I found two specimens on 

 March 2nd, in a nest made chiefly of beech leaves in very sandy soil on the summit 

 of Shofovcr Hill, in company with a couple of Hister marginatus, Er. — another 

 very welcome " find." My friend Mr. A. H. Llamm also took Medon castaneus on the 

 same day, on sandy ground near Cowley, where, on the 9th, Mr. A. J. Chitty and 

 I again succeeded in finding it, apparently quite " at home " in the nests. The 



