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Carpophilus sexpustulatus, F., etc., in Sherwood Forest. — At Edwinstowe on 

 May 12th I was fortiinate enough to take a specimen of C. sexpustulatus, F., 

 iinder the bark of a newly fallen oak branch ; in the same situation Pediacus 

 dermestoides, F., occurred plentifviUy. A few pupse of Saperda scalaris, L., were 

 extracted from the wood of oak trees ; Enicmus rugosus, Herbst, was taken 

 rarely out of powdery fungi on oaks ; Batrisus venustus, Reich., occurred in dry 

 wood, and under the bark of a fallen oak I noticed the remains of Agrilus 

 higuttatus, F. Here in May, 1912, by beating birch trees, I took several 

 specimens of the local and scarce Magdalis carbonaria, L. — E. W. Morse, 

 Leeds : June 22nd, 1913. 



(Edemera virescens, L., in Gloucestershire. — In June, 1905, I took a (? of this 

 species at Newnham-on- Severn. I have not met with it since in that locality, 

 and therefore was very pleased to take it at Symonds Yat early in June this 

 year. It occtirred rarely, by sweeping herbage in a restricted area well within 

 the Gloucestershire boundary. Our other species, (E. nohilis. Scop., and hirida, 

 lyiarsh., are not uncommon in both localities. — E. W. Morse. 



Bruchus pectinicornis, L., in the New Forest. — A very fresh specimen of this 

 insect was found by my daughter, by sweeping in a spot which is so remote and 

 secluded as almost to preclude the idea of its being an introduced specimen. 

 The date was June 1.5th, 1912. We have not, however, met with a second 

 example. — D. Sharp. Brockenhurst : June 23rd, 1913. 



Byschirius angustatus, Putz., in Cumberland. — This species was originally 

 found in the British Isles by the late T. J. Bold of Newcastle-on-Tyne, on the 

 banks of the Eiver Irthing, near Lanercost Abbey, Cxunberland (not Northum- 

 berland, as stated by Fowler, Col. Brit. Isles, Vol. I, p. 23), and brotight forward 

 by Dawson (Geod. Brit. p. 31) as a novelty under the name of jejunus. 



I have repeatedly looked for the species in this favourite district of Bold's, 

 but hitherto unsuccessfully. During May and June of the present year I was 

 fortunate enough to meet with it in quite a different part of Cumberland, viz. : 

 on mudbanks on the Solway Estuary. It occurred rather freely in association 

 with Bledius atricapillus, Germ. D. politiis, Dej., and saWius, Schaum, were 

 also a;bundant ; nitidus, Dej., decidedly rare. Although only a few square yards 

 of mudbank were worked, it was remarkable what a large number of beetles 

 were present. The Bledius alone must have been represented by thoiisands. 

 Bembidium lunatum, Dufts., was common with others of the genus, including 

 velox, Er., which I only take near the sea. Tachypus pallipes, Dufts., is also 

 worth recording. — F. H. Day, 26, Currock Terrace, Carlisle ; July 3rd, 1913. 



Pachycoleus rufescens. Sahib., in the Neiv Forest.- — To Dr. Sharji's list of 

 insects occiu-ring in wet moss by the side of a little stream in the New Forest 

 {antea, p. 125), the minute fragile Ceratocombid Hemipteron, Pachycoleus 

 rufescens, may be added. While examining some of this wet moss in his com- 

 pany, on June 24th, we noticed amongst the common Hebrus ruficeps. Thorns. 



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