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old cells of the female. This may in some way account for the rarity of the species, 

 and I should say from the appearance of the distinct colonies that the insects very 

 seldom leave the tree until forced to do so, as there was no trace whatever of an 

 external boring on the old oak in question. I have to thank a friendly Thymalus 

 Umbatus for this discovery, as I should never liave thought of searching where there 

 was no external working visible. At Wimbledon Common, March 25th, Stylops 

 meliifcB, four males and six females ; these were taken by catching specimens of 

 Andrena roxcB, race Trinimerana, hovering round the sallow bloom. They are not at 

 all difficult to detect, the females only of the Andrena apparently being attacked, and 

 the presence of the StyJops is made manifest by the somewhat moribund appearance 

 of the bees, and by their apparent inability to collect pollen, the healthy females 

 having their legs covered with pollen. — Bertram Geo. Kte, 212, Upper Richmond 

 Road, Putney, S.W. : March tWi, 1897. 



Coleoptera in Jersey. — In June last I had a brief stay of three days in Jersey. 

 Only a portion of that time was available for collecting ; but perhaps a list of 

 the species met with may not be without interest. Coleoptera were distinctly less 

 abundant than on the coast here, both beating and sweeping producing very few 

 epecies, while Geodephaga were very sparingly obtained under stones. I had only 

 been in the Island a few hours, however, before I found in the rocky pools on the 

 coast, close to St. Helier's, Ochthebius Lejolisi in plenty ; it occurred under exactly 

 similar conditions to those which prevailed at Ilfracombe, where I first met with it 

 in the previous June. With it were a few specimens of Helophorus, which proved 

 to he nothing better than eeneipennis. I found afterwards that the Ochthebius oc- 

 curred all round the coast, at every place where I was able to try for it. Other 

 epecies found on the shore included Cillenus lateralis, Diglossa tnersa, Aleochara 

 •ohscupella, Cafius xantkoloma, and Homalium riparium. Some sandy flats yielded 

 'Onthephagus taurus in plenty, accompanied by O. vacca and O. nuehicornis, Copris 

 luno/ris, Aphodius fossor, A.Jiinelarius, A. ater, and A. merdarius, Saprinus eeneus 

 :and Mister unicolor being less common at the same spot. From the dodder a single 

 fepecimen of Smicronyx cicur was obtained by beating, and in a little hollow I found 

 Cryptocephalus vittatus, Dolichosoma nohile, Malachius viridis, and some numbers 

 •of a minute Mordellistena which is at present undetermined. Other species met 

 with include Harpaliis latus, H. anxius, and //. serripes, Hydroporus lepidtts, 

 JLnaspis thoracica and A.fasciata, Silpha obscura, Phalacrus corruscus, CalUdium 

 ir-ariabile, Luperus nigrojascialtts, Otiorrhynchus rugifrons, Apion fuscirostre, A. 

 malvce, and A. hcematodes, Trachyphlceus aristatus and T. scaber, Canopsis Waltoni, 

 Strophosomns retustis, Sitones hispidulus and <S. cambricus, Polydrusus confluens, 

 Bruchus ater, and Caulotrypis ceneopiceus, the last mentioned abundant in oak and 

 .tamarisk. — W. H. Bennett, 15, Wellington Place, Hastings : March 9th, 1897. 



Libellula fidva, Midi., and j^Eschna mixta. Lair., in Suffolk. — Picking up 

 'things at random at Beccles in 1892, 1 took single specimens of these two uncommon 

 .and local species. The former was secured in its native marshes, which, along tlie 

 vwhole of the north border of Suffolk, represent the ancient coast line of the German 

 •Ocean, and the latter in a window of a house not far from the original site of the 

 •Saxon lighthouse, now occupied by the Church. I did not know the species at the 



