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to be found. They all occurred under small stones lyins on the short turf which 

 covers the hill side in the locality indicated by Mr. Forbes. This summer, hoping 

 to secure specimens for friends, most of whom seemed to be in want of this species, 

 I climbed the hill on several occasions but failed to find a single specimen ; possibly 

 the heavy rains and the bitterly cold weather of May were fatal to it. — T. UuDSON 

 Beare, 10, Regent Terrace, Edinburgh : November, 1907. 



Is Teretrius picipes, F., parasitic on Lyctus canaliculatus, F., as well as on 

 L. brunneus, Steph. ? — Whilst passing by an old fence at Ashtead, Surrey, late one 

 afternoon in June, liJOo, I detected a specimen of this rare little Ilisterid beetle 

 sitting on a rail. A careful examination of both sides of llie remainder of the 

 fence, which was swarming witii Lyctus canaliculatus, F., did not, however, disclose 

 another example of the Teretrius, and although I bottled a long selected series of 

 the Lyctus, I could not discover Lyctus brunneus, Steph., among them. Mentioning 

 my capture to other Coleopterists, I gathered that they considered my specimen 

 a chance or stray one, the reasons advanced being either the absence of L. brunneus, 

 or that I had overlooked it. Wishing to investigate the matter further, I last June 

 made another investigation of the fence in question, and was pleased to obtain seven 

 specimens of the Teretritts ; but the most exhaustive search again failed to bring 

 L. brunneus, Steph., to light. L. canaliculatus was, however, present, but in sadly 

 diminished numbers, this being probably as much due to atmospheric conditions as 

 to the ravages of the Teretrius. — E. C. Bjedwell, The Grove, Coulsdon, Surrey : 

 October I5th, 1907. 



Additional Suffolk Coleoptera. — A visit to Lowestoft last Easter resulted in 

 the discovery of two species not hitherto recorded for the county, viz., Euconnus 

 hirticollis. 111., and Trechus micros, Herbst. A single specimen of the former 

 occurred in very wet Sphagnum at Flixton, and two specimens of the latter I was 

 surprised to find in a mole's nest on the marshes at Barnby ; they were in the 

 actual nest itself, not merely in the cracks in the mound nor in the burrows as one 

 might expect. 



Other species of interest found in moles' nests were, Oxypoda longipes, Muls. 

 (= metatarsalis, Thorns.), which was far from uncommon, Quedius longicornis, 

 Kr. (2), Q. vexans, Epp., Heterothops nigra, Kr., Aleochara spadicea, Er., Homalota 

 paradoxa, Rey, Choleva spadicea, Sturm, and Bythinus securiger, Reich. — Id. 



Ocypus cyaneus, Payk., in Scotland. — In the last No. of this Magazine {anted, 

 p. 251) Mr. T. G. Bishop records Ocypus cyaneus from Scotland, and states it is its 

 first record from thence ; Colonel Yerbury, however, took the species at Nairn, N.B., 

 a few years back.— Horace Donisthorpb, 58, Kensington Mansions, S.W. : De- 

 cember \2th, 1907. 



Cryptophagus subdepressus, Oyll., from Cumberland. — Among some Crypto- 

 phagi sent to me for identification by Mr. Britten I find there are three specimens 

 of the above species, taken as long ago as May 20th, 1900, at Great Salkeld, on 

 branches of Scotch fir. — Norman H. Joy, Bradfield : November lOth, 1907. 



