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collection under B, fracticornis, Payk. Amongst them I find I have four B. 

 femoralis, one, a (J , taken on tiie banks of the Mole at Micklehatn in June, 1875, 

 and tliree caught on the wing in a sandy lane near Woking in June, 1901. In each 

 case these insects were found either in company with B. fracticornis, or in a place 

 whei'e that species was known to occur. During the summer of 1901 B. fracti- 

 cornis was not uncommon on the wing towards sunset in a sandy place in this 

 neighbourhood, though I did not succeed in finding its proper habitat. It is curious 

 that all the specimens I have seen from Surrey— Micklchaiu, Woking, and Witley — 

 belong to the typical dark form. The variety with red elytra has been sent me in 

 j)lenty from Scarborough, by Mr. Lawson, but amongst these there were none with 

 black elytra. I have taken, too, in Spain, many specimens of this variety, unac- 

 companied by dark examples. In May, 1902, I found B. opacus in abundance on 

 the wing in the evening on a sandy common at Witley, B. fracticornis also occurring 

 with it. B. opacus also may be found here under similar circumstances. B. sub- 

 terraneus I have taken on the banks of the Wey at Eashing, and B. loytgulus in a 

 sand pit at Guildford. Dr. Joy has been kind enough to send me some of his 

 specimens of B. femoralis, the identification of which has now been confirmed by 

 M. Fauvel.— G. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking : October 6th, 1904. 



Coleoptera in the Isle of Wight. — I spent the first half of September at 

 Sandown in the Isle of Wight, and as the weather was exceptionally fine, I was able 

 to do a fair amount of collecting ; perhaps a note on the more interesting captures 

 may be of value. 



Under stones in a sandy field near Sandown occurred Amara rufocincta, Dj., 

 and in a steep stony lane also under stones Amara fulva, De G. ; with these excep- 

 tions non e but the commonest Carabidm were seen, and the water net was not used at 

 all. Amongst the iitaphi/linidw,(^uediuspicij)es,M.an.,sfas found commonly by shaking 

 over paper heaps of cut weeds lying by the roadside, and in similar fashion I secured 

 Ocifpus compressus. Marsh, (never a common insect in my experience), and I'achy- 

 porusformosus, Matth. A specimen of Staphylinus stercorarius, 01., running on a 

 road, and Utenus solutus, Er., swept off Equisetum, complete the better captures in 

 this family. 



Close to Sandown I found a fine growth of Solanum dulcamara on a waste 

 piece of ground at the junction of two roads, off this came Fria dulcamarx, Scop., 

 and Psylliodes affinis, Pk. ; Cercus rujilabris, Latr., was in extraordinary profusion 

 on flowers in a damp meadow through which the Yar flowed ; a solitary Hilpha 

 tristis, 111., under a stone, and iScaphldium i-maculatum, 01., are the only other 

 noteworthy Clavieorns. 



Mr. Donisthorpe kindly gave me directions to the spot in Parkhurst Forest 

 where he took Aphanisticus emarginatus, F., in August, 1903, and by persistent 

 sweeping I at length captured one specimen ; I was evidently too late for this year's 

 brood, but we have thus evidence that it breeds regularly in this locality. Except 

 for this insect and single specimens of Mycetoporus c^aotcorMi*, Steph.,and Luperus 

 nigrofasciatus, Goeze, I got little in the forest by my arduous labours with the 

 sweep net. By grubbing at the roots of plants on the Sandown cliffs 1 obtained a 

 fair number of Chrysomela banksi, F., and one or two were also swept up. 



My most interesting captures, however, were amongst the Curculionidx. Mr. 



