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Fenny Stratford, Bods, (not Stony Stratford, Bucks., as quoted by Fowler, 

 Col. Brit. Islands, V, p. 294), and the majority of the specimens extant in our 

 collections are due to his liberality. It was subsequently taken by Mr. Gr. R. 

 Crotch in 1864 in Burwell Fen ; and Mr. E. A. Waterhouse informs me that 

 about that time some specimens were received by Mr. E. C. Rye among a 

 numlwr of beetles taken at Wicken Fen by the Hon. T. de Grey (now Lord 

 Walsingham). The Rev. H. S. Gorham kindly writes me that he took a single 

 specimen in 188(5 at Haileybury, Herts., probably on hornbeam ; and this appears 

 to have been the last occasion on which it has been found in our Islands 

 previous to the present record.— James J. Walker. Oxford : May I'Sth, 191;}. 



The host of Claviger longi'-vrnis, Mull., in England. — Through the kindness 

 of Mr. H. St. J. iJonisthorpe, 1 am now able to state definitely that the ant with 

 which this beetle is found in its Oxfordshire locality is Lasius niger, L. 

 C. longicornis occurred again there singly to me on May 1st, and has since l)een 

 taken by Mr. J. Collins. — James J. Walker: May l'6th, 1913. 



Bostrichus ca^mcinus, L., in Cumberland. — I met with a nimiberof specimens 

 of this insect last July and August in an oak log, imported from Odessa in a 

 roughly-hewTi state, but with the whole of the bark removed. The beetles were 

 captured as they emerged from their cleanly cut burrows in the hard perfectly 

 sound wood. The holes Avere neatly circular, like those characteristic of 

 Anobium, only larger. The beetles were most active towards evening, and diu-ing 

 the brighter part of the day they were to be seen in the holes about an inch from 

 the surface of the wood. A number of logs from the same source were piled 

 together, but the beetles were only present in one of them. I believe it is many 

 years since this species was found really wild in the British Isles, (.^iiite 

 possiljly these may have originated from pai-ents imported in some similar way 

 to those which form the subject of the present note.— F. H. Day, 26, Currock 

 Terrace, Carlisle: Ajn-il 2Sth, 1913. 



Philonthus varius, Gyll., var. shetlandicus, Poppiin!. — This variety is described 

 by B. Poppius in a paper published in " (")bfersigt af Finska Vetenskaps- 

 Societetens Forhandlingar," XLVII, 1904-1905, No. 18, which seems to have 

 escaped the attention of British Coleopterists. The j^aper is entitled " Contri- 

 butions to the knowledge of the Coleopterous Fauna of the Shetland and Orkney 

 Islands," and deals with a collection of Coleoptera made in these islands by 

 Prof. Dr. O. M. Renter in 1876. I quote Poppius's description and remarks 

 verbatim : " Ph. varixis, Gyll., var. shetlandicus, n., differs from the known forms 

 of this species by the uniform dark red colour of the wing-shells. Legs, as in 

 the most forms of this species, pitchy-brown. Closely allied to var. nitidicollis, 

 Boisd., the wing-shells, however, being still lighter. Owing to the fact that the 

 five specimens collected all are quite similar and that no otherwise coloured 

 specimens, as far as I am aware, are found on the Shetland Islands, seems it 

 fully right to consider the form described above as a peculiar local variety." 

 Four specimens are recorded from Lerwick (July 6th, 1876) and one specimen 

 from Tingwall (July 7th, 1876). This form had previously been known to occur 



