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Afjenia varifi/it/a—I took lialf-a-dozen specimens of lliis species in July, 1902, 

 on an old dry slono wall here ; tlie species is not included in the Clyde list. 



Peinphredon lethifer, one specimen, Bonhill ; also new to Clyde list. 



Gon/fex myataceus, common in Mun-och Glen ; seems to have a fondness for 

 settling on bracken. 



Nysxon spinosus, Murroch Glen ; not in Clyde list. 



Crabro tibialii — A. specimen taken off a stalk of rhubarb in Strathlevcn House 

 f,'arden in July. C. c/avipex, very common in two different parts of the district ; 

 nesting in holes in old walls. C. sii/iialus, one male and several females in Murroch 

 Glen, July, 1902 ; not in Clyde list. 



Odynerux trimarginatus, not uncommon on old walls, but generally well up on 

 the hills ; occasionally specimens are met with having four yellow bands on the 

 body. O. parietinus, one specimen, Bonhill. 



Aiidreiia ruficrus, two specimens, $ and $ , on the hill side near Murroch Glen ; 

 tliis species is not recorded in Clyde list. A. varians, by an oversight this species 

 was not recorded in Clyde list, as the only specimen I possessed was not recognised 

 until too late ; Bonhill, 1899. A. kelvola, also not in Clyde list but previously 

 recorded by myself from Bonhill. 



Bombus jonellns, one specimen in Murroch Glen. 



The four specimens upon which the records are based for the species marked * 

 are in tiie possession of Rev. F. D. Morice, to whom I am indebted for much assist- 

 ance in the identification of the species. — J. R. Mallocu, Bonhill, Dumbartonshire : 

 January, 1904. 



Variety of Ryphydrus ovatus, L. — The capture of a singularly distinct and 

 apparently hitherto unnoticed variety of this common insect may be worth recording. 

 The specimen (a female) was taken in a ditch near Lowestoft in April last. H, 

 ovatus is a species which, although of wide distribution, appears but little subject 

 to variation. Dr. Sharp records in his work on the Dytiscidie but one divergence 

 from the type-form, var. sancius from Syria, and this apparently varies more in 

 character of punctuation than in markings. In the present insect, which is a trifle 

 below the usual size, the punctuation is of the normal dull ? character, the colour 

 testaceous, but the suture is marked by a dark fuscous band and each elytron by two 

 similar bands, these latter coalescing somewhat before the apex. This is a form of 

 lineature common to many of the tropical members of the genus, and which can be 

 very distinctly seen in H. bisulcatus , Clark, from Malacca. 



There are but two species of Hyjjhydrus known to inhabit Europe, H. ovatus, 

 L., and H. variegatus, Aube ; the latter has been recorded from Cheshire, probably 

 in error, as the Stephensian H. variegatus is merely a rather large and somewhat 

 clouded form of H. ovatus. The whole genus comprises at present not more than 

 thirty species. — W. E. SuARP, 9, Queen's Road, South Norwood : Dec. lUh, 1903. 



Some Surrey Coleoptera captured during 1903. — The Coleopterist whose scene 

 of operations is the northern half of the County of Surrey is exceedingly unlikely 

 to add anything to the published fauna of that very well worked and indeed almost 



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