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wood by the Loch side on our way back to the hotel to catch the motor car 

 whicli left Kinlochewe Hotel abovit mid-day on the 2nd for Achnasheen Station, 

 bnt as there was no room on the car we had to procure a trap and drive the 10 

 miles from the hotel to the station. We dismoimted en route and made a hasty 

 search under stones by the shores of Loch Rosque, a large loch near Achnasheen, 

 but saw no sign of B. virens* Loch Maree is not an accessible place ; the journey 

 from Nethy Bridge, a distance of about 80 miles, took nearly ninehoiirs in trap, 

 train, and motor car, so unless the insect is discovered in other localities, it is 

 not likely that B. virens will ever be very common in our collections. — Prof. T 

 Hudson Beare : August 12th, 1912. 



Velleius dilatatus, >.fc., in the New Forest. — On July 11th, I had the good 

 fortune to take a pair of this fine and rare Staphylinid under a piece of loose 

 bark on a C'ossus-infested oak near Brockenhiu'st. In former years there had 

 been a hornet's nest in this tree, but these insects had long deserted it, though 

 numbers of Vespa vulgaris were attracted to the small quantity of sap exuding 

 at the present time. " Sugaring " at night on the tree, and laying a baited 

 bottle at its root, failed to produce any further specimens of Velleius, but 

 Dr. Sharp obtained a third example from an old Cosstts-burrow on the 18th. 

 Quedius ventralis was also present in the tree. 



The usual 'Ne^v Forest Coleoptera were exceedingly scarce in July, and 

 sweeping was particularly unproductive, the only good beetle obtained by this 

 method being Trachys troglodytes, of which I took a single example in a marshy 

 place on the South- Western railway-bank, where I had found the insect in previous 

 years on two occasions. Batrisiis venustus, Trichonyx sulcicoilis, Scydmsenus exilis, 

 Euthia schaumi, Choleva colonoides, Leptinus testaceus, and Plegaderus dissectus, 

 among other species, were obtained, all rarely or sparingly, by sifting decayed 

 beech-wood. I found a fine coal-black variety of Pterostichus lepidus in a sand- 

 pit near Matley Bog, and turned a fine ^ example of Anisotoma lunicollis on 

 Jixly 23rd out of a burrow in a sandy spot on the cliffs at Milford-on-Sea. — 

 James J. Walkek, Aorangi, Lonsdale Kd., Summertown, Oxford : Aug. 16th, 1912. 



Nanophyes gracilis, Redt., on Peplis portula in the New Forest. — By following 

 up Mr. G. C. Champion's discovery of the food-plant of Nanophyes gracilis 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1911, p. 214), I succeeded in taking a fine series of this pretty 

 little weevil on and under Peplis portula, growing on open places where water 

 had stood earlier in the year ; the species had previoiisly occurred to me only as 

 a gTcat rarity in the Forest. — James J. Walker : August 16th, 1912. 



Request for larvse of Phytonomus. — Herr M. Eiihl, Zurich, Editor of the 

 " Societas Entomologica," having read in a paper I sent him that lucerne is here 

 and there cultivated along the English coast, and on the sliore of Alderney is 

 growing wild, is desirous of obtaining stems that are, or ought to be, attacked 

 by the grubs of a beetle of the genus Phytonomus. The stems containing the 



* The shores of this Loch were also examined by me in 1892. — G, C. C. 



