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Note on the habits of Emus hirtux, L. — During tlie past month I Imve seen 

 tliis insect in plenty at Fusio, Canton Ticino, as well as in other valleys, both 

 in Switzerland and in N. Italy. The readiest way to obtain specimens was to 

 examine the heaps of manure (wliich are to be found everywhere just outside the 

 doors of the cow-houses) while the sun is shining on them. The insect crawls slowly 

 over these heaps, frequently seeking a fresh hiding place, and occasionally taking to 

 wing. It is much easier to secure than either of the two Lelstotrophi which swarm 

 in such situations, these latter flying off at the slightest alarm. Turning over the 

 cow-dung in the roads and pastures was not nearly so profitable a method. Perhaps 

 if manure-heaps were searched during the Jieat of the day, particularly in places like 

 the New Forest, the insect would not remain so rare with us. — G. C. Champion, 

 Ilorsell, Woking : August Uh, 1899. 



Fresh localities in Surrey for Amara famelica, Zimni., and A. infima, Dift. — 

 Till recently I have only seen examples of these very local species from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Chobham and Woking. For A. famelica, Netley Heath (between 

 Gomshall and Horsley) may now be added, specimens having been found there by 

 Mr. Walker and myself during the present season; and for A. infima, Frensham 

 Common, where it is not rare at the roots of heath near the large ponds. A. 

 famelica seems to be one of the commonest species of the genus in the Swiss and 

 Italian Alps, as well as in the Austrian Tyrol, where I have noticed it in various 

 places high up on the mountains, usually in company with A. Quenseli, Sch., and 

 also in the vallevs. — Id. 



Aphthona herbigrada. Curt., var. ?, in Yorkshire. — Mr. Gr. W. Chaster, of South- 

 port, has recently sent me some specimens of an Aphthona to name, with the note 

 that it was abundant last year at Ingleton, Yorkshire. These examples must, I think, 

 be referred to the variable A. herhigrada, Curt. They differ from the insect found 

 commonly on the chalk in Kent and Surrey in being of an aeneous colour, and in 

 having more elongate antennae in the males. The bluish-green southern specimens, 

 as well as the brassy northern ones, sometimes have the prothorax almost smooth, 

 and in the males of both forms the antenna; vary in length, while in the females 

 there is no difference in this respect. Weise, in his description of A. herbigrada 

 (Naturg. Ins. Deutschl., vi, pp. 919, 920), notes the variability in colour, and he also 

 mentions two named forms — one {Icevicollis, Rey) with the prothorax almost smooth, 

 the other {dimidiata, Weise) with the head and prothorax cupreous. — Id. 



Coleoptera at Llanfairfechan. — With very few exceptions the Coleoptera re- 

 corded by myself in this Magazine last year, as occurring at the above locality, were 

 again met with during a short stay there in June last, and I have the following 

 additional species to record among the less common ones : — on the hills within a few 

 miles of the town, Pterostichus athiops and Trechus obtusus under stones ; Honia- 

 lota tibialis and H. oblongiuscula in moss, and four specimens which appear to be 

 referable to H. cavifrons ; H. indubia, H. indiscreta (?) and Gi/mnusa brevicoUis, 

 a few in moss about a mountain stream; and in the same situation, those three 



