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insect, and though certainly " assez luisant" compared with many insects, is of a 

 duller appearance than 5. csneus, owing to the closer punctuation, which covers a 

 larger part of tlie elytra than in the latter species ; the small shining space outside 

 the dorsal stria in 5. immundus compared with the larger space in -S. feneus, is an 

 almost infallible character, but, in the rare cases of intermediate specimens, it will be 

 found that the teeth of the tibiae will often afford a good character, as, in fresh 

 specimens, they are distinctly larger in S. immundus ; considerable abnormalities, 

 however, in the teeth of the tibia of the Risterida are not uncommon, and occa- 

 sionally they appear to get partially, if not altogether, worn away ; it must be 

 admitted that in several of tlie species considerable difficulty is likely to arise if one 

 character only is considered ; although by taking all the characters into account, it 

 is usually quite easj- to distinguish the species. — W. W. F.] 



Hypera tigrina, S^c, at Dover. — It may interest Coleopterists to hear that 

 Hypera tigrina may still be taken in its old locality at the top of the cliffs east of 

 Dover. I captured three fine specimens last August, on wild carrot. At the roots 

 of the same plant, Harpalus parallelus (?), sabnlicola, &c., occurred. Olibrus 

 parliceps was obtained by sweeping only the chalk downs. 



By sweeping Lotu/s, &c., on the Folkestone Road, Apion subitlatum and Waltoni 

 were found, while a patch of Onobrychls near St. Radegund's yielded Apion live- 

 scerum and Jiavimanuin, and a single specimen of Gymnetron labile. — Id. 



Coleopfera in the Cardiff district. — The past season has been by no means an 

 unprofitable one, and particularly marked by abundance of individuals in many good 

 species. In the early spring I can record a few specimens of Evcesthetus scaber, 

 TrogopMceus pusillus, Homalium planum and iopterum, and Coryphium. For a short 

 time towards the end of May a Mallhodes, which seems likely to turn out nigellus, 

 was abundant on tlie banks of the Taff, where Hyperaspis, Uydroporus septentrio- 

 nalis, and Limonius cylindricus also occurred. A month later the dry bed of the 

 river was alive with Bembids, the commonest by far being B. prasinum, punctulatum, 

 and testaceum ; B. decorum, tibiale,femoratum, and concinnum also occurred, but I 

 did not get atrocaruleum, which was found last yeai*. Other collecting yielded 

 Mordellistena abdomiiialis (1), Choragus Sheppardi (I), Mycetophagus atomarius, 

 JEncephahis complicans, Phyllotreta sinuata, P. crucifercB (a pest on turnips this 

 summer), and Lissodema i-puxtulattim (1). Autumn collecting has produced single 

 specimens of Lehia chlorocep/iala, Apteropeda globosa, Chrysomela didymata, and 

 Pseudopsis sulcata ; fungi have been swarming with Gyrophcena Iftvipennis, and in 

 a bit of marshy ground Longitarsus ochroleucus was plentiful, with a few Hippuri- 

 phila Modeeri and Aphthona atroccBrulea. Aphodius parous was common in 

 October. — B. Tomlin, The Green, Llandaff : December lOth, 1896. 



Coleoptera in the Hastings district. — The following are among the most note- 

 worthy Coleoptera taken in the Hastings district during a fairly successful season : — 

 Gyrinus distinctus and Suffriani in ditches, on the " saltings," in January, and at 

 Winchclsea, in July ; Haliplus obliquus and Cnemidotus impressus, singly, in the 

 saltings; Dichirotrichus ob.toletus, sparingly, under stones near the beach ; Uydro- 

 porus vittula and dorsalis, fairly abundant, in a pond at Evvhurst. Gyrinus urinator, 

 about twenty, by netting the lower part of submerged posts in the river Rother, in 



