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represented by two round white spots, of which the upper and larger marks the usual 

 position of the apex of the blotch, whilst its base is marked bj the lower one which 

 is much smaller and is situated close to the margin itself; the space between them 

 is occupied by the ground-colour. The specimen is a male, and was probably 

 captured near Darlington by the late Mr. J. Sang. 



In the collection of the Rev. C. R. Digby I found an example of Dichrorampha 

 Petiverella, taken by him at Scale, Surrey, on August 1st, 1894, which exhibits a 

 somewhat parallel form of aberrance to that noticed above. The yellowish blotch 

 on the dorsal margin is replaced by two yellowish spots separated by a band of the 

 ground-colour. The upper spot, representing tiie apex of the blotch, is circular, 

 while the lower one takes the shape of a semicircle, of which the broad base rests 

 on the dorsal margin. — Eustace R. Bankes, The Rectory, Corfe Castle : November 

 20th, 1896. 



Autumnal Coleoptera in the Chatham district. — In October last I met with 

 Colon viennense, Hydnobius punctatissimus (black and testaceous forms), Acalles 

 roboris, and a few fine specimens of both sexes of Anisotoma cinnamomea, by sweeping 

 on the clialk hills at Queendown Warren. At that apparently inexhaustible locality, 

 Cobham Park, a fine pair of the rare Xantholinus glaber occurred to me in November, 

 in wet rotten wood at the foot of an old ash tree ; Quedius chrysurus and Q. scitus, 

 which I had not seen in the Park for at least twenty years, turned up in the same 

 situation, and Megacronus inclinans was found for tiie first time in tlie district under 

 dead leaves, along with Cholera nigricans, C. fusca, C. morio, ^c. Tetratoma 

 Desmaresti was taken at Woodstock Park, near Sittingbourne, by sweeping under 

 oak trees at the end of October. — James J. Walker, 23, Ranelagh Road,Sheerne83 : 

 December 5th, 1896. 



Mycetophagus quadripustulatus, Linn. — Amongst a number of beetles recently 

 found by Mr. W. H. Tuck at Bury St. Edmunds, and kindly presented to me, I find 

 an interesting variety of this common species. It has the two reddish-yellow spots 

 on each elytron connected along the middle of the disc by a longitudinal vitta, the 

 posterior spot being large and transverse, and extending to near the suture and outer 

 margin. There are several named varieties of this species {bipustulatus, impustulatus, 

 and ruficollis, Schilsky), but none agreeing with the insect described. Mr. Tuck 

 has also found M. quadrigtiltalus and M. midlipunctatus, as well as the usual form 

 of M. quadripustulatus, at Bury. — Gc. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking : November 

 2.Qth, 1896. 



Bagous diglgptus, Boh., at Ipswich. — While sweeping some dead reeds in a 

 little ditch that runs parallel with the River Gipping hardly outside the town, on 

 the 24th of April last year, I took a weevil quite unknown to me. Mr. E. A. New- 

 bery, kindly examining it a second time, said he thought it must be the very rare 

 B. diglgptus, which I believe has previously been recorded for England only from 

 Burton-on-Trent, and Mr. G. C. Champion has been good enough to confirm Mr. 

 Newbery's provisional identification. I am rather fond of working the marshes at 

 dusk in the spring and autumn for hibernating beetles, and it was so dark when I 



