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coi'respondeiit, Mr. Bedwell, to know that I took eight examples of this rare and 

 interesting species in a little marsh in North Lincolnshire on June 2l8t and July 

 13th last year. I have no doubt if I had had more favourable weather I could have 

 got more. — Alfred Thoenlet, South Leverton Vicarage, Lincoln : Feh., 1899. 



Rhizophayus perforatus, Er., in the carcase of a dog. — Some months ago Dr. 

 G. V. Poore sent me some beetles and larvse, mostly dead, with the history that 

 they had been taken in the carcase of a dog which he had exhumed after a burial 

 of eighteen months at the depth of a spit in loose ground. They proved to be 

 Rhizophagus perforatus, Er. This seemed to be a curious locality for fungus-feeding 

 beetles, althougli R. parallelocoUis, Er., is recorded as having been taken in cofBns 

 in France. However, I subsequently learnt that there were cavities in the flesh 

 filled with fungus which Dr. G. Murray determined chiefly to be a species new to 

 Britain, viz., Acladiiim ciirvatum, Bon. No doubt this was the attraction, and the 

 Rhizophagufi must be acquitted of a depi-aved taste for feeding on carrion. — Philip 

 B. Mason, Burton-on-Trent : February \Qth, 1899. 



Giiorimus variabilis, L., at Balham. — It will interest British Coleopterists 

 to know that this fine and interesting beetle is not yet extinct in its old haunts. I 

 have recently seen a specimen which was found by Mr. T. H. C. Taylor lying upon 

 a path in Balham, in July, 1897. Apparently it had been attacked by a bird, as one 

 of the elytra is somewhat damaged. No doubt further examples might be taken by 

 any one having the time and opportunity to examine the old trees on Tooting 

 Common, where half a century ago it was by no means uncommon. — Theodore 

 Wood, 157, Trinity Road, Upper Tooting, S.W. : January \2th, l"i99. 



Tachguna concolor, Er., in Richmond Park. — In my note on Steni, &c., in 

 Kichmond Park {antea, p. 45) I mentioned that several specimens were still un- 

 determined ; by comparison with the examples in the Power Collection, I have 

 ascertained that two of these belong to Tachgusa concolor, Er., a very local species, 

 and apparently only found in the Home Counties.— T. Hudson Beare, Park House, 

 King's Road, Richujond : February \5th, 1899. 



Aiithribtis albinus, Linn., in .item of Stachys sylvatica. — A few days since, 

 when collecting larvse of Ephippiphora nigrico.'itana in last year's stems of Stachys 

 .lylvatica near here, I found in one of the stems a specimen of a pretty weevil which 

 I suppose is of rare occurrence, at any rate, I had not met with it since September, 

 1880, when I found one un the hat of a gentleman I was botanizing with, not far from 

 this same spot, as recorded by the late Thos. H. Hart in the " Entomologist " at the 

 time. I at once recognised my find of the other day as Anthribus albinus, Linn., 

 and it may be worth recording again, as the question arose is it likely to be con- 

 nected with the Stachys ? and if so, could the beetle be turned up more commonly 

 if this plant was more closely examined, just as the moth, I was then taking the 

 larva of, is more easily procured now we know its habits ? Of course the stem may 

 have been used as winter quarters by the beetle, and have no connection with its 

 life history. — William R. Jeffrey, Ashford, Kent : March, 1899. 



[The beetle was probably hibernating in tlie stem of the Stachys. It is usually 

 found about fungoid growth on decaying trees or faggots, like most of its congeners. 

 — G. C. C.]. 



