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Harpalus latus, L., var. erythrocephalus, F. — This well marked variety of latus 

 has recently occurred in some numbers under flood refuse on the banks of the river 

 Lleidr, Dolwyddelen, Carnarvonshire, North Wales. My friend, Mr. W. E. Sharp, of 

 Ledsham, who found this interesting form, tells me that 75 per cent, of the total 

 H. latus there were this variety. Unfortunately, believing that the specimens were 

 immature, he secured but a small number. Although H. latus is a very common 

 insect on the Cambrian Mountains at high elevations, he has never met with this 

 form before. The flood refuse referred to was undoubtedly derived from the side of 

 Moel Siabod. These specimens differ from the type in having the head and mandi- 

 bles of a dark red. The red side-border of the thorax is more marked ; the colour 

 being continued round the margins of the elytra ; the scutellum also is reddish. 

 The variety has hitherto found no place in our lists or handbooks. — E. A. Newbeey, 

 12, Churchill Road, Dartmouth Park, N.W. : June I6th, 1899. 



Pissodes notatns, Fabr., at Wolcing. — I beat a single specimen of this insect 

 from a fallen Scotch fir in this neighbourhood on May 27th, the first I had seen alive 

 in the south of England, though the late P. Smith once found it in plenty at 

 Bournemouth. P. notatus seems to occur sporadically in various southern localities, 

 and it may be gradually spreading (like Asernum striatum) to places where pines 

 are planted. It was once found by Wollaston at Yaxham, near East Dereham, 

 Norfolk.* This species is much more widely distributed than its congener P. piiii, 

 Linn., which is the commoner insect of the two in Scotland ; and in some parts of 

 the continent P. notatus is so abundant as to be destructive to the pines. — Gr. C. 

 Champion, Horsell, Woking: June \Qth, 1899. 



Olibrus Jlavicornis, Sturm, at Sundown, I. W. — Mr. E. Newbery (Ent. Record, 

 xi, p. 136) has recently recorded one or two additional localities for this species, 

 originally introduced by the late E. C. Rye as British, under the name 0. helveticus, 

 Tourn., upon the authority of an example taken by myself at Caterham in 1872. It 

 is therefore worth noting that other specimens were subsequently found by me at 

 Caterham, and that last year I found three more at Sandown, I. W. — Id. 



Granary beetles at Strood, Kent. — On the outer walls of a granary near the 

 railway station at Strood, Bruchus pisi is often to be met with, and on passing the 

 place a few weeks ago I was much pleased to see the pretty and very active little 

 Alphitophagus bifasciatus, Say {= 4-pustulatus, Steph.), alive for the first time in 

 England, in the same situation. This latter beetle being a desideratum, I sought 

 and was kindly granted admittance to the premises, with the result that Alphito- 

 phagus was found in the greatest abundance, chiefly under old damp boards, pieces 

 of sacking, &c., in the granary yard, and accompanied by Palorus Ratzeburgi, Wissm., 

 in almost equal numbers. The other beetles found in the same situations include 

 Omalium concinnum, LcBinophloeus pusillus and ferrugineus, Silvanus surinamensis , 

 Cryptophagus cellaris and bicolor, Atomaria munda, Tenebrio obscurus and Tribo- 

 Hum ferrugineum ; a few specimens of Monotonia subquadrifoveolata also turned up, 



• Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1848, 1, p. 29.5. The species is not included in Mr. Edwards' 

 Norfolk List. 



