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Oxypoda mise.Ua, Er., (ffc, at Brandon. — ^T have this species to aclfl to the list* 

 of things taken at Brandon in June, 1D03. It was not uncoinmon in little " pockets ' 

 on the" Breck," sands. A single specimen of Sienui atratulus, Er., may be added 

 to the same list. Mr. Champion kindly identiCed both these species. — B. ToMLiN, 

 Chester : January, 1904. 



Longitarsus curius, Allard,in the Isle of Man.— k Longitarsus taken sparingly 

 last September at Colby, Isle of Man, lias been identified for me by M. Bedel as 

 L. ciirttis, Allard,a species described in tlu Ann. Soc. Ent. de Prance, 186U, p. 832. 

 It has very much the appearance of a miniature L. melanocephalus, and has a wide 

 range on the Continent. I hope to say more about it in a paper on some Manx 

 captures. — Id. 



Is Leptidia brevipennis a British bisect /—In reply to Mr. Holland's query (of. 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., 2nd ser., vol. xv, p. ;?8), it may perhaps be of interest to note 

 that among a number of unset Coleoptera, given to me when I began collecting 

 twenty-four years ago by the late Mr. Samuel Stevens, was an example of this insect 

 which he had apparently overlooked. No locality was appended, but Mr. Stevens 

 told me that all the specimens in the box were British, and that they had all been 

 taken by liimself. This does not show, of course, that L. brevipennis is indigenous 

 to Britain ; but as Mr. Stevens had had the box of beetles by him for many years 

 when he gave it to me, it does show that the species has existed in this country for 

 perhaps half a century past. — Theodore Wood, Tlie Vicarage, Lyford Road, 

 Wandsworth Common, S.W. : February 6th, 1904. 



Quedius longicornis, Kr., Sfc, in North Wales. — I have much pleasure in 

 recording the capture of a specimen of Quedius longicornis, Kr., at tlie foot of 

 Snowdon, in the first week of August last, more especially as I know of no other 

 Welsh record for this rare species. It was found in moss on an old stump in the 

 wood, throuj;h which the ascent of Snowdon is made from Llanberis. Owing to the 

 excessive rainfall of last year I was astonished to find that the moss in the wood was 

 exceedingly dry, and, with the above exception, proved most unprofitable to work. 

 Among my other captures were a few examples each of Anthophagus alpinus, Payk., 

 Acidota crenata, F., Arpedium Irachypterum, Grav., Stenus guynemeri, Duv., 

 and a fine series of Chrysomela cerealis, L. The latter species was only obtained 

 after a very lengthy and careful search on three sepai'ate occasions, and then my 

 success was entirely due to Mr. Burgess Sopp, who had kindly put me in the way of 

 obtaining it.— E. C. Bedwell, 29, Fleet Street, E.C. : February 1904. 



Three Diptera neiv to the British List. — Both this year and last Mr. Collin has 

 most kindly looked over and determined several boxes of Diptera for me. Among 

 these he detected three species new to our list : Dilophus ternatus, Lw., of the 

 Bibionidx from Sherringham, near Cromer, in August, 1903 ; Chyliza vittata, Mg., 

 of the Psilidse, from near Bungay, in June, 1902 ; and Tanypeza lonqimana, Fin., 

 of the Ortalidae, from Tostock, near Bury St. Edmunds, in July, 1899. He has 

 also sent me the following notes and allowed me to give them here : — 



* Ent. Mon. Mag., 1903, p. 204. 



