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January ; two were also taken on the surface in May, but. none have appeared tliis 

 summer. AxinotarsKS jmlicarius, a single specimen, at Winchelsea, near which 

 place were taken Abdera hifasciata (1) and Lissodema Ai-pustulatum, in June ; the 

 same day I took, within a square half mile, about twenty Coccidnla scutellata, by 

 beating sedges and sweeping the surface of the water, a dozen Donacia cinerea, and 

 about as many D. braccata ; I afterwards took about two dozen more D. cinerea, by 

 picking them off the reeds just at dusk. With the C. scutellata I got a stray 

 Choragus Sheppardi, one Hypera Julinii, two Eubrydilus velatus, four Phiftobius 

 notula, and one P. Waltoni ; a dozen or more of the last named were swept from 

 Polygonum amphihium at Ewhurst, with one Rhinonciis inconspectus. From an old 

 hedge at Ewhurst I got several each of Acalles turbatus, Pogonocharus dentatus, 

 Apion pubescens (from willow), Tetratoma ancora (1), Clinocara minor (1), and a 

 couple of the Homopteron, Issus coleoptratus. By sweeping on a railway bank a good 

 many Cryptocephalus morcei and Centhorrhynchidius Chevrolati, Orche.ifes pra- 

 tensis (6), and Conopalpus testaceus (1) wei-e obtained, with several (Edemera lurida, 

 a few Mordellistena pumila, eight Cassida obsoleta, and one C. hemisphaerica. In 

 the Eastbourne district, a few Cryptocephalus bilineatus, and one Aphanisticus 

 pusillus occurred in an old chalk quarry, and from ditches I got a number of Scirtes 

 orbicularis, about thirty Laccophilus variegatus, and one Bagous nodulosiis, with a 

 good many Donacia dentata and bidens, in July, and in September four L. varie- 

 gatus and nine Hydrophllus piceus, one of which had apparently just recently 

 emerged, as its elytra were quite soft. Athous difformis, which used to be so local, 

 seems to be spreading, as I have taken it in fair numbers at places so far apart as 

 Winchelsea and Ewhurst.— W. W. Esam, Eagle House, St. Leonards: November 

 13th, 1896. 



Xantholinns distans, Kr., in Caithness. — In the month of August, 1892, I took 

 a few examples of a Xantholinns amongst loose stones in a stone heap on the cliff, 

 east of Tliurso. At the time I thought they were immature specimens of the com- 

 moner kinds. On examining them at home afterwards, I came to the conclusion 

 they might possibly be the rare X. distans, Kr., and placed them under this species in 

 my collection. Lately, through the kindness of Mr. J. J. Walker, who has compared 

 them with an example from Loch Callater in Mr. Champion's collection, they have 

 been identified as true X. distans. If I remember correctly, the species was not at 

 all uncommon in the stone heap. 



I should also like to take the opportunity of correcting a mistake in my list of 

 Coleoptera from the Thurso district, given in Vol. xxix of the Ent. Mo. Mag., p. 14"i. 

 In that list, Tachinus pallipes must be removed, and the name Tachinus proximus 

 substituted for it. The specimens of this last species were very variable, but all, I 

 think, undoubted T. proximus. — Alfred Thornley, South Leverton Vicarage, 

 Lincoln : December, 1896. 



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Arthur Dowsett, F.Z.S., F.E.S., died somewhat suddenly at his residence at 

 Reading on November 6th, aged 60. He was widely known as a Naturalist in the 

 fullest sense of the term, and had amassed large ornithological and entomological 



