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with B. camjn, Bondroit, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., LI, 1907, p. 24, from Belghim and 

 Holland. Bondroit's name will therefore fall as a synonym of Schiodte's species. 

 — M. Cameron, H.M.S. " Dartmouth," Atlantic Fleet : March, 1912. 



Coleoptera in a hag of Chenvell flood-refuse. — The following more or less 

 notewoi'thy Coleoptera were foiind in a bag of flood-refiise brovight home from 

 the Eiver Cheiwell at Water Eaton, Oxon, in January, several of them being 

 additions to the Oxford local list — Agahus uliginosus, one <? specimen of this 

 very local northern insect, kindly confirmed for me (with other species in this 

 note) by Mr. Gr. C. Champion ; Enochrus bicolor, Ochthehius rufimarginatus and 

 margipallens, Calodera riparia, Ilyobates forticornis (2), Myrrnedonia limhata, 

 Homalota languida (sparingly), insecta, pavens, debilis (common), and inter- 

 media (1), Philonthus lucens (1),* Gabrius bishopi. Sharp (both sexes of this 

 well-marked form), Stenus canaliculatus and carbonarius, Platystethus capita 

 (rare), and nitens (common), Hister neglectus (1), Heterocerus marginatus, and 

 several 9 examples of Phyllotreta eseclamationis, with the elytral spots confluent, 

 forming a longitudinal indented yellow marking cvariously like the pattern of 

 P. sinuata. — J. Collins, 74, Tslip Eoad, Summei'town, Oxford : March 16th, 1912. 



Silvanus bidentatx(,s, Fab., in New Zealand : synonymical note. — In June, 

 1902, I took at Waitakerei, near Aiickland, N.Z., two or three specimens of 

 a small Cucujid imder the bark of felled trvinks of the introduced Californian 

 Pinus insignis. These I noted at the time in my journal as " a Silvanus," but 

 afterwards found them to agree in all respects with the description of Crypta- 

 morpha lateritia, Brovin (Man. N.Z. Coleoptera, p. 222, No. 390), and they have 

 hitherto stood under that name in my series of New Zealand Coleoptera. On 

 examining the beetle a few days ago with Mr. G. C. Champion, we found it to 

 be identical with the well-known Eviropean (and British) Silvanus bidentatus. 

 Fab. Bearing in mind the wide distribution by commerce of several species of 

 Silvanus, it is not unlikely that S. bidentatus has been brought to New Zealand 

 in that way ; though my specimens were found with other certainly indi- 

 genous wood-feeding beetles {Xenocnema spinipes, "WoU., Mitrastethus bitubercu- 

 latus. Fab., &c.) many miles from the coast, in a wild and solitary spot at the 

 edge of one of the few remaining patches of Kavu'i forest in the Avickland 

 district.-:- James J. Walker, Oxford: March I6th, 1912. 



Hylotrupes bajulus, L., and other beetles at Wellington College. — On Jvily 29th 

 last I found two specimens of Hylotrupes bajulus on some timber which was 

 being vised for repairs at Wellington College, Berks. I also captured Leptura 

 fulva and Tetropium fuscum near the College in July, 1909 ; and have also 

 to record a specimen of Odontmus mobilicornis, found dead in a garden at 

 Twyford, near Winchester, in August, 1908. — Benjamin G. White, Hardinge, 

 Wellington College : March 4th, 1912. 



Hybernia aurantiaria var. fusca. — By this name I propose to designate 

 a very distinct form of Hybernia, aurantiaria which seems to have become 

 *I found P. Ivctntt \xi fair iimnbers in flood-refuse near Wolvercotc, Oxon, Dec. 23rd, 1911.— J.J. W. 



