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Pliiius iectus, Boield., in Hoylake. — Referring to tlie interesting notes ap- 

 pearing in the current number of the Ent. Mo. Mag. on the distribution of this 

 species, I am able to add another British locality to those already published. On 

 recently looking through some insects which I liad put aside from time to time for 

 future identification, my friend Mr. Brockton Tomlin at once discovered six speci- 

 mens of Ptinus tectus. These had been sent with some Trigonogeniiis globulum, 

 Sol., from Hoyhike during the first weeif of September last ; but being much 

 occupied by reason of the preparations for the visit of the British Association to 

 Southport on the 9th of the month, I had put them away and forgotten them. 

 Consignments of Trigonogeniiis globulum, to which Mr. Champion also refers in his 

 note, have been received at intervals by me from Mr. Jennings, Hoylake, ever since 

 my first record of the species from that locality in the autumn of I'JOl (lint. Mo. 

 Mag., n. s., xiii, p. 9).— E. J. B. Sopp, Birkdale : April I'Sth, 1904 



Apion brunnipes, Boh. {Iteoigaium, Kirbg), at Oxford. — In I'ecently looking 

 over a number of ^joion* taken by myself in June, 1903, in a sandy place a few 

 miles from Oxford, I found one specimen of a very smooth and shining dark violet 

 species, quite strange in aspect to me. As I could find nothing like it on comparison 

 with the British species of Apion in the collections at the University Museum, I 

 referred to Canon Fowler's work on the British Coleoptera, and made it out to be 

 the very rare A. Isevigatum, Kirby. For further confirmation the insect has been 

 kindly compared by Mr. J. J. Walker and Mr. Gr. C. Champion with specimens of 

 A. Isevigatum in the cabinet of the latter, and has been returned to me as undoubtedly 

 a $ of (hat species. I hope in the forthcoming season to " follow up " the Apion 

 and to find out more about it. I may add that Trachys pumila, 111., occurs at the 

 same place, as well as at Wychwood Forest — W. Holland, University Museum, 

 Oxford : April Wth, 1904. 



Clinocara undulata, Kr., in the Northumberland and Durham district. --In the 

 autumn of 1901 I took a few examples of Clinocara undulata, Kr., near Winlaton 

 Mill, whilst in 19U2 I came across it in some numbei's at two different localities 

 (about half a mile distant from each other). The first specimens were found on 

 September 25th in Thornley Burn Wood, near Winlaton Mill, where I saw fully 

 thirty clustered on some white fungoid growth, beneath the bark of a small dead 

 tree, and the others on October 16th in a wood bordering the River Derwent, near 

 Lockhaugh. Notwithstanding their very lively and ludicrous movements I managed 

 to take a nice series on each of the above dates. Again, in the latter part of Sep- 

 tember, 1903, I saw a specimen of this insect resting on a rail post, at the border of 

 Thornley Burn Wood, near Winlaton Mill. This is, so far as I am aware, the first 

 record of C. undulata, Kr., from the Northumberland and Durham district, for it is 

 not mentioned by Canon lowler in his "British Coleoptera" as having been taken 

 in these counties, nor has Mr. Bold catalogued it in his list of our local Coleoptera. — 

 Richard S. Bagnall, The Groves, Winlayton-on-Tyne : March 23rd, 1904. 



Triplax esnea, Schall., in the Derwent Talley. — I have found Triplax senea, 

 Schall., very commonly under the bark of dead hollies, and in one case under that 



