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variety, but found two or three red or dull scarlet examples ; the colour, however, 

 faded after death ; I have not seen a record of this variety, which is very distinct in 

 life ; beetles, as a rule, appeared to be scarce, and I took very few worth recording. 

 I may, perhaps, mention Otiorrhynchus raucu.t, scabrosus, and ligneus, Uydrocyphon 

 deflexicoUin, Tychiiis meliloti, Adimoyiia tanaceii, aud Am'sotoma li/wra ; Anthono- 

 ■mus rxibi was rather plentiful on flea-banc flowers, and I found a few violet-coppery 

 specimens of (Elemera ccerulea, the only male being of a deep purple colour. Har- 

 palus rotundicollis was taken busily engaged at the seed-head of knapweed, or an 

 allied plant ; I have found Harpalus puncticollix in the same situation at Filey : as 

 far as can be seen they are devouring the seed, and not searching for small insects ; 

 in this point certain of the Ophontts group appear to be related to Zabrus. 



Among the Hemiptera I swept a single specimen of the apparently very rare 

 Derceocoris neticornis ; the only other example I ever met with was at Filey. I also 

 took Rhyparochromns chiragra, Heterocordylus tibialis, and Dicyphus annidatus,t\\Q 

 latter in abundance. 



One morning I saw a large and beautiful specimen of the straw-coloured variety 

 of Polyommatus Phlceas, but failed to secure it. Vanessa lo was in abundance in 

 certain spots, but V. Atalanta and V. cardui were, apparently, entirely wanting. 

 Gonepteryx rhamni has been for some years conspicuous by its absence, as far as my 

 observation has gone ; has it become more scarce in reality ? — Id. 



Notes on some Scottish Coleoptera. — The record of Timarclia tenehricosa, F., 

 for Scotland was "extremely doubtful," but it is no longer so, as I found seven speci- 

 mens the other afternoon crawling about on a sunny face of rough waste land. I 

 think, however, it must be very intermittent in its appearance, as I could hardly 

 have overlooked so conspicuous a species during the time I have been collecting ; 

 yet it was in this county it had been said to exist, on only very indirect authority. 

 I have lately taken sparingly Rhynchites cuprevs, L., at the blossom of the rowan 

 tree ; it is rare in Scotland. R. aneovirevs, Marsh., has also turned up on the 

 same trees and oak. While collecting a few days ago with Mr. Lenuon near Dum- 

 fries, I got one specimen of Elater nigrimis, Herbst, which is new to the Solway 

 district ; and here I have been getting some examples of Corymbites holosericeus, 

 F., these have all been got on Scots fir, which I have not seen named as its habitat. 

 SubcoccineUa 2i-pu>ictata, L. {Lasia globosa, Schneid.), has turned up here. I have 

 taken several Gyrophcena minima, Er., in a fungus ; this was hitherto on the Scottish 

 list only on the strength of a single specimen taken many years ago by Dr. Sharp. 

 A solitary S example of PhyJlotreta nodicornix, Marsh., which I got three or four 

 years ago by the sea here, is, I think, the only Scottish record for this species. — 

 W. D. R. Douglas, Orchardton, Castle Douglas, N.B. : June I9th, 1891. 



Creophilus maxUlosus, var. ciliaris, Steph., in Ireland. — At the end of August 

 I took a specimen of Creophilus maxillusus, var. ciliaris, Steph. (among several of 

 the ordinary type), under a dead dog-fish near Port Balantrae (closi' to the Giant's 

 Causeway), Co. Antrim, Ireland. I was only in the neighbourhood a very few days 

 or I might have found some more specimens. Chrysomela BanJcsi, F., was apparently 

 not rare at the same locality. — Id. 



