260 ' November, 



Of B. otomoides Mr. Bold says [Nat. Hist. Trans, of Northumberland and 

 Durham, vol. ir, part i, p. 14 (1871)] ' " Banks of streams, but very rarely ;" and 

 of S. niqricorne : " This rare boreal insect was taken in our district by Mr. Geo. 

 Wailes. One of the original specimens by the kindness of Mr. G. "R. Waterhouse 

 now ornaments my collection." 



The following Bembidia, amongst others, also occurred at the same localities 

 this spring, for the most part commonly : — B. rufescens, Gucr., B. tihiale, Duft., 

 B. afroeceruleiim, Steph., B. decorum, Pz., B. concinnum, Steph., B.prasinum, Dufl., 

 and B. punctulatnm, Drap. 



T am indebted to Mr. Tomlin for kindly looking over these insects, and to Prof. 

 T. Hudson Beare for confirming the determination of B. nigricorne. — RlCHAED S. 

 Bagnall, The Groves, Winlaton-on-Tyne : October l^th, 1904. 



CoJeoptera in Scotland. — In the course of a short holiday in Scotland during 

 June and July, I met with a few Coleoptera which seem worthy of mention. 



The first ten days I spent at Kenmore, Loch Tay, where I was very much 

 handicapped by the weather, a cold westerly wind blowing almost incessantly, and 

 frequently increasing to a gale. Beetles, consequently, were far from plentiful. The 

 best thing I got was Dendrophagus crenatus, of which a single specimen occurred 

 under the bark of a dead fir, high up on the mountain side. An example of Tele- 

 fhoriis elongatns was found sitting on a stone by the edge of the loch, and a solitary 

 Otiorrhynchus septentrionis turned up under a piece of board. I pulled pine stumps 

 almost without number to pieces, but got nothing better than a quantity of pupae 

 of Quedionuchux Isevigatus, which do not look in the least like those of a beetle. 

 An expanse of newly-felled pines, three or four acres in extent, proved absolutely 

 unproductive. 



From Kenmore I went on to Rannoch, where the weatlier was rather more 

 favourable. A pine stump in the Black Wood pi'oduced Astynomus xdilis (one 

 only), a couple of iZAa^Jwwi indagator, Tps quadripnxtulata, Elater nigrinus, and half 

 a dozen Pissodes pint, while from a log close by, which had apparently been cut 

 from it, T got a series of Trgpodendron lineatum, four or five more of the Tp.i, and 

 half a dozen of the rare HoniaHum monilicorne. The Trypodendron is very difficult 

 to capture, as it dives down to the bottom of its burrow at the slightest alarm, and 

 I found that the only way to get it out was to drive the blade of one penknife 

 diagonally underneath it, so as to cut off its retreat, and then to dissect it laboriously 

 out with another. The Homaliurn, for some reason or other, looks mucli more 

 distinct when alive than it does after it is carded ; but the length of the terminal 

 joint of the maxillary palpi is a most noticeable characteristic. 



A couple of Carabus glabratus were found strolling casually about in the same 

 pathway which produced six or seven last year ; I could not find it in any other 

 part of the wood. The famous Co.isus tree, unfortunately, is dead, and Cetonia 

 aenea did not put in an appearance. Neither did I again meet with Trichius fasci- 

 attis either in the pupal or the perfect state. From pine stumps, however, I dug 

 out three very fine examples of Melanotus castanipes, while a dead hornbeam pro- 

 duced about a dozen Abdera qnndrifasciata. A couple of Corymbites impressus 

 were sitting under a large stone, and a solitary Staphyliniiti fnhnpes was rambling 

 about on the pathway close by. Quedionnchus and Qued/ns xanthopus were common 

 under bark, and Asemuni striatum turned up in some numbers in the Dall woodyard. 



