138 [J'^ne, 



record in the Ent. Mo. Mag. of Meloii proscarabicus from llie Isle of Man : I sliould 

 be glad of reference to this. 



E. Birchall mentions three species from the Isle of Man (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1876, 

 p. 65). 



In Canon Fowler's " Cohoptera of the British Islands," only 22 species are 

 recorded from the Isle of Man, the Rev. R. P. Murray being given as the authority 

 for two of them, and the Rev. H. A. Stowell, Joseph Chappell and W. Gr. Blatch, 

 one each. 



Dr. J. W. Ellis, in " Contribution towards a Coleopterous Fauna of the Isle of 

 Man " (Proceedings Isle of Man Natural Histoi'y Society, vol. ii, p. 45), enumerates 

 50 species taken at Port Erin and neighbourhood, June and August, 1892. 



My own notes during the past two years in the Ent. Mo. Mag. I need not 

 detail.— J. Harold Bailey, Port Erin, Isle of Man : May 5th, 1901. 



Coleoptera in the Dean Forest. — I have taken on different excursions into this 

 district — Melasis bup>restoides, scarce ; Elater {lythropterus ?), a few ; Trichius 

 (fasciatus ?), scarce ; Phloeophilus edwardsi, one ; Pr tonus coriarius, scarce ; Pachyta 

 cerambyciformis, common ; Metcecus paradoxus, one S ; Orchesia undiilata, a few 

 under beech bark ; and one female Corymbites castaneus, found settled on my coat 

 during a drive taken on June 21:th. — E. W. Morse, 9, Hill Top Mount, Leeds : 

 Aj)ril, 1904. 



Stridulating Coleoptera : a correction. — I can now state that the loud and free 

 stridulation of Kydrobius oblongus, Herbst, arises {cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., 1902, p. 249) 

 from friction of the abdomen upon the elytra, which fact I have noticed both 

 during life and by pressing the basal ventral segments of the recent insect, when 

 the sound is distinct though much feebler than when alive. 



Geotriipes typhscus, I am now in a position to afUrm, stridulates loudly in tiie 

 manner indicated by Mr. Galian (Trans. Ent. Soc, 190U, p. 446), and not as I have 

 thought (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1901, p. 66) upon the elytra, though the latter is certainly 

 the method of G. sylvaticus. My error arose from the fact that to obviate all sound 

 the hind coxae must be held quite vertically deflexed, and I have found it difBcult 

 to reproduce more than the faintest resonance after death. — Claude Morley, 

 Ipswich : 31ay, 1904. 



Oxylaimus variolosus, Dtifts., and Choleva colonoides, Kraatz,at Bagley Wood, 

 Berks. — On the afternoon of May I4th I paid my first visit to Bagley Wood, that 

 happy hunting ground of many generations of Oxford entomologists, under the 

 guidance of my friend Mr. W. Holland. The day was fine, and the Wood impressed 

 me very favourably as a collecting ground ; but there were few insects on the move, 

 and we did not meet with anything noteworthy until we came across a few faggots 

 of gnarled oak boughs lying in a little flowery glade haunted by midges of the most 

 ferocious description. These faggots were very dry, and so far gone into decay as 

 to break by their own weight when lifted ; but from almost the first one shaken over 

 my brown paper I was greatly pleased to turn out a single example of the very rare 

 Oxylcemus variolosus, Dufts. This curious beetle appears to be of exceedingly 

 sluggish habits, and may quite easily be overlooked as u common Rhizo2}hagus. It 

 has already been recorded in this Magazine from the Reading district of Berkshire 

 by Dr. Norman H. Joy (Ent. Mo. Mag., ser. 2, xiv, 1903, p. 174). 



