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0. auropunctatits, Gryll.j maj be found here, seeinj^ that O. blandus oecura, and 

 that we luive the Irish Silpha .suhrotundala , Steph. — J. Haeolu Bailet, Port 

 Erin, Isle of Man : June Uh, 1004. 



Coleopie.ra from Berlcshire. — In glancing over my list of captures of Coleoptera 

 for the first half of this year, I find that it compares favourably with the same 

 period of the previous one, yet I must admit that it has required a good deal of hard 

 work to make up the list, and there has been more than one almost blank day. 

 Certain methods of collecting have been extraordinarily unproductive. There has 

 been almost nothing on the hawthorn blossom, and all ground-haunting beetles, 

 even the commonest Geodephaga, have been quite rare. The first collecting done 

 was in March and April, when the following species were taken from flood-rubbish 

 in the Kennett Valley : Hydaticiis seminiger, De Gr., Henicocerus exsculptus , 

 Germ., Calodera riparia, Ev. (common), fifteen species of Stenus, including 

 iS. solutus, Er., -S. ojiticus, Grav., and <S'. circularis, Grav., Pselaphus dresdensis, 

 Herbst (2), Euconnus hirticoUis, 111. (rather common), Saltica tamarlcis, Schr., 

 and Bagous frit (Brit. Coll. ?). I was pleased to find one specimen of Dianous 

 ccerulescens, Gyll., in the flood-rubbish in this (the Pang) Valley. Two or three 

 visits in the spring to some nests of Lasius fuligiiiosus in the Wellington College 

 district, produced 4 Thiasophila inquUina, Miirk., and more Notothecta confiisa, 

 Mark. I also came across in the same district Phlceocharis suhtilissima, Mann., 

 rather commonly under bark ; Haplocnemus impressus, Marsh., by sweeping, and 

 Notiophilus rufipes, Curt. A long day in Aldermaston Park was rather dis- 

 appointing, but three species were added to the county list, viz. : Donacia cinerea, 

 Herbst, Epunca angustula, Er., and Trypodendron domesticum, L., the last two 

 being taken from a dead holly tree. As usual something of interest has always 

 turned up on the few visits tiiat I have been able to pay to the Streatley District. 

 Agathiditiui ro<M»rf«/«)», Gyll., was taken commonly in a small powdery fungus ; 

 A. atrum, Payk, and Khizophagiis cribratus, Gyll., from fungus on beech trees; 

 Clinocara tetratoma, Tlioms,, one specimen under bark, and Fhyllobius viridicollis, 

 F., by sweeping. 



In the immediate neighbourhood the only captures worth recording have been 

 Pediacus dermestoide.i, F., 9 specimens from under the bark of Spanish chestnut 

 logs, and Tkalycra sericea, Sturm., taken by evening sweeping. Two or three 

 short expeditions into Hampshire have been worth the trouble, as Crepidodera 

 niiiduhi, L., was seen in abundance on one occasion, and Polydrusus sericeus, 

 Schall., in some numbers on another ; single specimens of Cyrtotriplax, bipustulata, 

 F., and Ilyobates nigricollis, Payk., were also taken. — Nokman H. Joy, Bradfield, 

 near Beading : July 3rd, 1904. 



Orochares angustatus, Er., at Bradfield, Berks. — On October 13th of last year, 

 a cold drizzling day, when walking up a hill with my bicycle, I noticed a small 

 shining Omaliid crawling on my mackintosh cape. As the insect seemed un- 

 familiar to me, and as I was naturally unprepared for Coleoptera at such a time, I 

 carried it home between my finger and thumb. On sending the specimen to Canon 

 Fowler he kindly identified it for me as Orochares angustatus, Er. This is the 



