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in its Huntingdonshire locality), there is one specimen of the ab. tricolor 

 Weise, noted above. An example from " Wicken " given to me many years ago 

 by the late A. J. Chitty, is also to be referred to this aberration, and one of the 

 two specimens from the same locality in his collection of British Coleoptera, 

 now in the Oxford University Mnseimi, is of this form. — J. J. W.] 



Leptura sangui7iolenta L. at Barnsley. ^While in a neighbouring garden, on 

 the afternoon of Jtily 20th, my wife espied a beetle in the heart of a large 

 ci-eam rose, growing about a foot from the ground. This she secured and 

 brought to me. It proved to be a fine female Leptura sanguinolenta. Although 

 it is not impossible for it to have been bred in the district, it is much more likely 

 to have been imported, in an immatiire state, in pine timber intended for pit- 

 props. — E. G. Batford, 2, Rockingham Street, Barnsley .- August 7th, 1916. 



Field note on Gorymhites pectinicornis L. — This beetle occvirs annually in the 

 rough meadows fringing Orton Woods, near Carlisle, but has never been con- 

 sidered a common species by local Coleopterists. One could usually rely on 

 taking a specimen or two in June by beating the hedges and bushes in the fields, 

 or perhaps capture an odd female resting on the stems of the long grass. I 

 have always svispected, however, that the species was much commoner than this, 

 and, wanting a couple of males, I went to the likeliest meadow on June I7th 

 last, and swept and beat for about an hour, but without the least success, 

 although various other Elaters were abundant. Disappointed, but not dis- 

 couraged, I sat down on a little hillock and siirveyed the field, and almost at 

 once noticed a large black -looking beetle a few yards away, hovering over the 

 herbage, and evidently about to alight. On netting it a fine male C. pectini- 

 cornis was revealed. In a few minutes others were similarly observed and 

 captured, and soon I had as many as I cared to take. The majority were males. 

 Females occurred in the proportion of about one to five males. In some cases 

 the beetle would alight on a grass stem and remain quiet, but on the least tremor 

 of the grass dropped to the grovmd : hence my failure to sweep any up. Others 

 were fiying along in a straight line to or from the adjoining wood, mostly quite 

 low, and were easily seen when one was in a sitting or stooping position, one's 

 eyes being then nearly on a level with their line of flight. In one case I saw 

 one flying high up out of reach. It settled on an oak bovigh, but a stick thrown 

 where it was resting brought it down, and it flew along just over the top of the 

 grass. With both sexes present and the species occiu'ring so freely, I was rather 

 surprised not to observe pairing taking place, and can only assume that this 

 occurs in the evening or at night. My observations were in the early afternoon 

 when the sun was bright and warm. I tried " sembling " with several of the 

 captured females, but not a single male responded. Each individual seemed 

 intent upon its own affairs. — F. H. Day, 26, Ctirrock Terrace, Carlisle : July 2\st, 

 1916. 



Ocypus cyaneus Payk. in the Oxford district. — On July 23rd I found a 9 

 specimen of Ocypus cyaneus Payk., trapped in a short trench dug in a sandy 



