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flood rubbish. Again mountain and northern forms were quite ixncomnion. 

 In the following short list only those species are included which are not 

 recorded by Fowler as occurring generally in Scotland, or only from localities 

 considerably further south. 



Helophorus porculus, Bedel (L. Shin and Altnahara) ; Oxypoda hsemorrhoa. 

 Sahib., and Notothecta jlavipes, Gr., from nests of Formica rufa, R. Shin ; Micro- 

 glossa nidicola, Fairm. (R. Shin ; Sand Martins were common considerably 

 further north) ; Atheta magniceps. Sahib. (L. Shin) ; A. deforrnis, Kr. (Altna- 

 hara) ; A. divisa, Miirk. (R. Shin) ; Conosoma lUtoreuni, L. (R. Shin) ; Qiiedius 

 puncticollis, Th (R. Shin) ; Stenus carbonarius, Gyll. (L. Shin) ; Omalhim 

 grnndiloqua, Luze (R. Shin), 0. heeri, Heer (R. Shin) ; Acrulia inflata, Gyll. 

 (R. Shin) ; Agathidium seniinulum, L. (R. Shin ; this is possibly a new i-ecord 

 for Scotland, as I believe the early records of this species refer to A. hadium, 

 Er.) ; A. atnim, Pk. (Altnahara) ; Enicmus histrio, Joy and Tonilin (L. Shin) ; 

 Micropeplus porcatus, Pk. (R. Shin) ; Serica hrunnea, L. (Altnahara) ; Malthodes 

 flavoguttatus, Kies. (Altnahai'a) ; Clythra quadripunctata, L. (R. Shin). — 

 Norman H. Jot. 



The food-plant of Ceuthorrhynchus querceti, Gyll. — The food-plant of the 

 above insect has been stated, somewhat doubtfviUy, as Baphamis raphanistrum, 

 Linn. I fovmd it, with the larva, at Stalham, Norfolk, this July, on Nasturtium 

 palustre, De Cand., which is undoubtedly its food plant, although it may 

 possibly feed on Raphanus also, biit this plant was not to be found here. The 

 weather during July was very cold at the Broads, which may account for the 

 scarcity of beetles. With the exception of a few Silis ruficollis, Telephorus 

 thoracicus and Cercits bipustulatus, nothing else occiUTcd worth bottling. — 

 E. A. Newbeby, 13, Oppidans Road, N.W. : August f^th, 1913. 



Re-occurrence of Rahocerus bishopi, Sharp, in Scotland.— I was fortunate 

 enough a few days ago to beat a small series of this species out of dead 

 branches of birch, at the spot near Grantown, where it was first taken by Dr. 

 Sharp and Mr. Bishop in 1909. I searched in vain for the insect in 1910, 1911, 

 and 1912, but could never find any birch boughs in suitable condition. At the 

 same time I secured a single specimen of Magdalis carbonaria, L. — T. Hudson 

 Bbare, Malvern, Nethy Bridge, N.B. .- August 7th, 1913. 



Colias edusa, ^c, in Kent. — Immigi-ant specimens of Colias edusa have been 

 reported in June from many places in the South of England, and even from 

 localities a long way inland ; thus my friend Mr. G. Claridge Druce, F.L.S., 

 tells me that he saw one on the roadside between Ardley and Brackley, actually 

 on the border line of Oxfordshire and Bucks. An August brood of this 

 interesting butterfly was therefore to have been expected, and it is satisfactory 

 to find that the cool and gloomy weather so prevalent during the last two 

 months has not prevented its appearing in considerable numbers. In the Isle 

 of Sheppey lucerne and clover are not grown as much as was formerly the case. 



