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other mole's nest beetles taken liere by Mr. Hamra, Mr. J. Collins, and myself, 

 include Aleochara spadicea, Er., widely distributed and not rare, varying greatly 

 in size and development ; Oxypoda metatarsal it, Thorns., and Homalota paradoxa, 

 Rey, as yet rarely ; Quedius vexans, Epp., fairly common, and Q. longicornis, Kr., 

 more sparingly ; Oxytelus fairmairei, Pand., taken not rarely by Mr. Collins ; and 

 Heterothops nigra, Kr., as usual the most abundant species in the nests — a large pro- 

 portion of which, however, are here entirely untenanted by beetles. The giant flea, 

 Hystrichopsylla talp:r, until recently so rarely met witli, turns up constantly, often 

 to the number of a dozen or more in a single nest, but it is by no means active, and 

 is easily secured when wanted, or as easily avoided. — James J. Walkeu, Aorangi, 

 Lonsdale Road, Summertown, Oxford : March \^th, 1907. 



Aleochara maculata, Bris., near Oxford, and in Berkshire. — On March 16th 

 I turned a bright and distinct-looking Aleochara out of a tuft of grass at the side 

 of Hen Wood, about three miles from Oxford. This I at once suspected to be 

 A. maculata, Bris., a suspicion which was confirmed on reaching home, when it was 

 found to agree exactly with an unrecorded example of this rare species in my col- 

 lection, taken by sweeping in a beech wood near Streatley, on May 6th, 1905. — Id. 



Oxylaimus variolosus, Duft., at Darenih Wood. — A specimen of this species, 

 captured by myself at Darenth Wood, Kent, on August 2nd, 1903, has been over- 

 looked till recently, when Mr. Champion detected it amongst some Coleoptera he 

 was looking over for me. — W. West, Lewisham : March iSth, 1907. 



Noteworthy captures of Lepidoptera in North Sussex. — Among yaxions Lepido- 

 ptera taken at East Grinstead, Sussex, during the last two seasons, by Miss A. D. 

 Edwards, for whom I have had the pleasure of identifying them, the following rare 

 or local species seem worthy of special mention : — Sarrothripus revayana, Sc. 

 {undulana, Hb.), one, in 1906 ; t^coparia basistrigalis, Knaggs, the only individual 

 met with was an example, caught in 1905, of a handsome melaaic aberration that 

 is occasionally found with the typical form in other localities, and to which I hope 

 to refer again shortly in a note on the variation of this species ; Ephestia semirufa 

 (Hw. ?),Stn., a single specimen was captured in 1906 ; Dichelia grotiana, F., one, in 

 1905; Cne})hasia chrysantheaiia,J)vi^.,l\\VQe ^live secured in 19o5, and a similar 

 number last year ; Cn. communana, H.-S., one, in 1905 ; Ephippiphora signatana, 

 Dgl., a solitary specimen was found among the captures made in 1905 ; Tinea corti- 

 cella, Crt. [emortuella, Z.), one was taken in 1906 ; and Eidophasia messingiella, 

 E. R., of which an example occurred in 1906. 



Of the above, neither E. semirufa nor Cn. communana is included in the List 

 of Sussex Lepidoptera published last year in the Victoria History of Sussex. 



As regards E. semirufa, it seems impossible, without a sight of Haworth's type 

 specimen, which I have failed to trace, to decide for certain whether his " semirufa," 

 described in Lcp. Brit., 496 (1812), was merely a -variety oi elutella,lib., or whether 

 it was the unquestionably distinct but little-known species, captured by Miss 

 Edwards, to which Stainton (Man., ii, 168) applied the name semirufa, and in 

 which the more oblique first line reaches the dorsum markedly further from the base 



