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spot wliere tlio first was captured on May 12th ; Abdera hifasciata, Marsli., one 

 specimen, on August 1st, swept up under an oak ; Anchomenus verxuius, Gryll., in 

 numbers in August, seen for tlie first time here ; Stenus incrassatiis, Er., not 

 rare ; Acrognathus mandibularis, Gyll., very rarely this season, tliere having been 

 but few suitable evenings for it to take flight.— G. C. CuAMPioN, Horsell, Woking : 

 October 14th, 1907. 



Ocypus cyaneus, Pat/k., in Scotland. — I captured a fine male of this rare species 

 when collecting with my friend Dr. David Sharp, near Grrantown on-Spey, in June 

 of this year. A few days later Canon Cruttwell and Dr. Sharp took BradyceUus 

 placldus, Gryll., not uncommonly in tiie same locality. O. cyaneus is, I believe, new 

 to Scotland. — Thos. G. Bishop, Beattock House, Beattock, N.B. : Oct. 11th, 1907. 



Coleoptera in North Wales. — Some notes on a few days' collecting in North 

 Wales last June may be of interest to Coleopterists. The weatiier throughout my 

 stay was very cold and wet, and insects generally were very scarce, but partly to 

 make up for this, several good things turned up. Most of my time was spent in 

 the neighbourhood of Barmouth. There is a good stretch of high saudliills here, 

 and Cicindela maritima. Dej., is quite common in one or two places A dead speci- 

 men of ^gialia rufa. P., also occurred, along with Uyxchir 111.1 nitidiis, Dej., and 

 Bledim atricapillus. Germ. An old gull's wing produced, among other things, 

 what I think must have been Arena octavii, Fauv., but as both specimens were 

 carried off by the terrific gale blowing at the time, I cannot say definitely whether 

 it was this species or not. Mr. Attlee has a record from this district (Ent. Rec, 

 xix, 'J4). Cassida sangv.inolenta, F., was swept from a ditch bordering the sandhills, 

 and Phyllotreta sinuata, Steph., from waste herbage by the side of the road. Tliere 

 are some extensive woods along the base of tlie hills a mile or two inland, and (rom 

 thistles growing in a very marshy spot in one of these woods 1 got a number of 

 Larinus carlinx, 01., most of them were, however, very worn. Calosoma inquisitor, 

 L., occurred near by ; Melasoma seneum, L., was common on alders growing on the 

 banks of a mountain torrent ; Clythra 4-punctata, L., and Apoderus coryli, L., 

 occurred on hazel ; and one of my most welcome finds, Cryptocephalus bipunctatus, 

 var. lineola, F., was taken on the outskirts of the wood. Donacia impressa, Pk., 

 was fairly abundant on some tall grass, but was very local, all the specimens I saw 

 being within a length of a few yards. Chrysomela faduosa. Scop., occurred near 

 the same place. The hills behind the woods rise to an elevation of some 2500 feet. 

 Carabux glabratas, Vk., is to be found in several localities here, usually running 

 among the heatlier during the daytime, and in 1904 I took in the same district two 

 specimens of (!. violaceu.i, var. exasperatus, Duft. Phyllopertha horficola, L., was 

 in swarms everywhere, from halfway up the hills right down to the shore ; I could 

 have taken any number of it. A day on Snowdon produced very little besides 

 Megacromts inciinans, Gt., (rom under a. stone not very far from the summit. — 

 P. H. Jackson, "Dumfries," 112, Balham Park Road, S.W. : October 1st, 1907. 



Coleoptera in the Highlands.— During the month of June this year 1 was in 

 Scotland, and able to get some collecting, first at Braemar and afterwards at 



