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year, but tliesc wero taken cliiviiif^ tlio first woek in August. On old oaks Conopnlptia 

 teataceii.i and var. vigorsi were taken in "snmll numbers, tlie variety being more 

 abundant tban tlie type form. — J. KinsoN Taylor, 35, South Avenue, Buxton : 

 October ]Oth, 1904. 



Coleoptera in the I.ile of S/ipp/iPi/, ^^c. — My trip to Slieerness in August last 

 enabled me to revisit my favourite old eolleeting haunts in Sheppcy, but those are 

 fast being destroyed owing to building operations and other pauses. It was also 

 rather too dry for any great success in eolleeting, and many interesting species, 

 formerly plentiful, were now scarcely to be found at all, or were entirely absent. 

 Perhaps my best "find " was Qiiedius ventralin, Ahr., of which I took half-a-dozen 

 specimens out of a hollow elm trunk, in company with a few of Q. micropx, Grav. 

 Two other hollow elms, frequented by owls, again produced DendrophUux punctatua, 

 Hbst., in abundance. Baris scolopacea, Q-crm., was apparently over at its head- 

 quarters at Shellness, though it had been taken there by Messrs. Bearo and Donis- 

 thorpe previous to my visit, but a few fine large examples turned up unexpectedly 

 in quite a new locality close to Sheerness. Apion limonii, Kirby, too, had apparently 

 vanished from one or two of its best localities, but was found in plenty on its usual 

 food-plant at Burnt wick Island, in the River Medway. A. nialvn?, Fab., which I 

 liad not seen here for quite 25 j'cars, was now fairly common in several places on 

 Malva xi/lvestris. The water net yielded Berosu.i spinotKs, Stev., iji profusion in a 

 ditch just outside Sheerness, but of the genus Baijoux, formerly so plentiful in species 

 and individuals in Sheppey, only a few worn B. argiJlaceux, Qyll., could now be 

 found. Cliff-edge sweeping was productive on one evening only, when I got Syn- 

 tomium seneum, Mull., Homnlium deplanatum,Oty\]., Anisotoma rf«6i«, Kug., Throsctis 

 carinifron.t, Bonv., Xi/lophiIu.<t popnhipux, Panz., and Salpingus arrafux, Muls., 

 among others. Casual examples of Polt/xfichiis vitfatus, BruUe, and L.rmostenus 

 complanatux, Dej., were picked up in Sheerness. 



An afternoon's collecting at Cobham Park resulted in tlie capture o{ Afiathhlium 

 rotunda/urn, Gyll., Aqnricopliagim cephol ote.t , Sehra., Eutkia plicafa, Gyll., Saprinus 

 virescens, Payk., Ceri/lon facji, Bris., JTt/lesiymx oJeiperda, Fab., &c. At Deal, on 

 August 31st, I found the sand-hills too dry for anytliing more noteworthy than a 

 single Panagaeim quadripustulaiits, Sturm, to be found ; but the adjoining ditches 

 produced good series of LaecophUus \mrifigafiix, Germ., and EKhn/ohiiix velafu.t, 

 Beck.— James J. Walker, Oxford : October lOth, 1904. 



Bemoidium stomoidex, Dej., and B. nigricorne, Qyll., in the Derwent Valley. — 

 This spring T took the above species in our district : B. .ttomoid.es, Dej. (April I'-th), 

 at Lockhaugh, near Rowland's Gill, and B nigricorne, Gyll. (.\pril 4th), from the 

 Blancliland Moors. I quote the following from Canon Fowler's work (Brit. Coleo- 

 ptera, vol. i, pp. 110 and 112-3) : — 



" B. nigricorne, Gyll. — Sandy heaths, at roots of plants, &c. ; a rare species ; 



it was first taken by Mr. G. Wailes in the Newcastle districts .... until 



discovered in England it was only known to inhabit high European latitudes. B. 



stomoidex, Dej. — Rare ; first taken by Mr. Bold in Cumberland, and afterwards in 



other localities in the extreme north of England." 



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