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reference in;ulo to the occurrence of this Cicmdela on the Kentish coast, and 

 the only record I can find from this locality is in Stephens's " Manual," p. 5, 

 where it is notified as from "sandy coasts: Deal to Ramsgate, Kent." On 

 mentioning my capture of C. maritima to Dr. G. W. Nicholson, he informed me 

 that six or seven years ago, when he first commenced collecting beetles, lie 

 found this species not rarely on tlie coast to the noi'th of Sandwich — probably 

 on exactly the same ground as that on which 1 met with it. — J.\mes J. Walkek, 

 Oxford: September 12th, 1918. 



Gnorimus nohilis, <^c., at Colchester. — Towards the end of June 1 had the 

 pleasure of taking a nice sei'ies of Gnorimus nohilis ; they were all found in old 

 apple trees in a garden near here, together with tlieir larvic. From the same 

 ti'ees I obtained Dorcus iMtrallclopipedus (8 or 4), Tillus elongatus (2), and 

 Eryx atcr. — Bernard S. Harwood, 62, Station Rd., Colchester : Sept. 17th, 1918. 



Cerceris ^-fasciata preying on Strophosomus faher. — Late in July we found a 

 colony of Cerceris o-fasciata and observed that each 9 was carrying a specimen 

 of Strophosomns faber in its mandibles, evidently as food for the next genera- 

 tion. Careful watch for upwards of an hour sliowed that no other species was 

 taken, every capture proving to be S. faber, of which, curiously enough, only a 

 solitary specimen had occurred to us previously.- — Bernard S. Harwood, 



Agraylca pallidula, McLach., added to the British faxma. — This species 

 described and illustrated in detail by McLachlan in " Fedtschenko's Travels in 

 Turkestan " (1875), and also in his " Revision and Synopsis of the Trichoptera 

 of the European Fauna" (1880), and further reported on in the " First Addi- 

 tional Supplement" to the latter work (IBSi), has \xp to the present time been 

 recorded very sparingly from Turkestan, Hungary, Riva, and Zurich. But 

 Mr. Martin E. Mosely, well known in connection with Anglei-s' Flies, 

 captured a single S in Berkshire, at Shetford on the Lambourne, on the last 

 day of August. — A. E. Eaton, Richmond Villa, Northam, N. Devon, R.S.O. : 

 September Uh, 1913. 



(Dbituari). 



Odo Morannal Renter died on September 2nd, aged 68 years, in Abo, his 

 native town. At the age of 17 he began his University studies at the Philoso- 

 phical faculty of Helsingfors, and took the degree of Phil. Doc. in 1876. From 

 1877 — 1910 he held an appointment as an academical lecturer in Zoology at the 

 Helsingfors University, when he retired. In the seventies he visited Scotland 

 and made extensive collections of all Orders of Insects, particularly in the Orkney 

 and Shetland Islands. In the eighties he studied at several museums in 

 Germany and Austria. His fii-st entomological contribution appeared in 1870, 

 and since that time he has published about 500 papei-s, chiefly in the " Acta " 

 and " Oef versigt " of the Finnish Society of Sciences, most of them dealing with 



