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hiinself, mentions the ventral tubercles of the second abdominal segment in their 

 descriptions of maroccana $ , a character which so naturally connects it with hume- 

 rails. — Edwaed Saunders, St. Ann's, Woking : November 13ih, 1899. 



Two rare ants at Qomshall. — While collecting Hemiptera and Coleoptera at 

 Q-omshall last August, I casually met with two species of ants which appear to be 

 sufficiently uncommon to justify a record of their capture. They were — first, Ponera 

 contractu, of which I got two of the blind workers ; and second, Myrmecina 

 Latreillei, of which I got several workers, and could certainly have got many more 

 had I recognised the insect at the time. I am indebted to Mr. Edward Saunders 

 for the confirmation of the species in each case. — E. A. Butler, 39, Ashley Koad, 

 Crouch Hill : November 13^A, 1899. 



Note on the habits of Diglotta siniiaticolUs, Muls. and Rey. — This species occurs 

 freely every year in April and May on the sandy shore, just above the extensive rifle 

 ranges at Altcar, Lancashire. It is often to be found below high-tide mark travelling 

 over the wet sand with considerable facility, or sheltering under small stones and 

 chips of wood ; but its proper habitat is just about high-tide mark, burrowing in 

 the sand in the same haunts as Bledius arenarius and Dyschirius impunctipennis. 

 It burrows straight down, forming a miniature well about 4 to f in. deep, in which 

 it occurs singly or in pairs. A little practice enables one to discriminate at once 

 between their holes and those of the Bledius, and the latter of course are frequently 

 traceable for some way horizontally. — B. ToMLiN, Stancliffe Hall, Matlock : Novem- 

 ber Qth, 1899. 



Recent records of Anitys rubens and Dorcatonia chrysomelina in the Manchester 

 district. — In Canon Fowler's " British Coleoptera " Anitys rubens is recorded from 

 Ringway, Cheshire, by Mr. Chappell. Dorcatoma chrysomelina is in the same work 

 recorded from Stretford, Manchester, by Mr. Eeston, and from Dunham Park, 

 Manchester, by Mr. Chappell. I am able from recent captures to add another 

 locality in the Manchester district for both these species. On August 12th, 1898, I 

 obtained four specimens of Dorcatoma chrysomelina from a rotten oak tree in Trafford 

 Park, Manchester, and on examining the same tree on June Ist, 1899, I was fortu- 

 nate in finding two examples of Anitys rubens. During 1897 I had seen in the same 

 tree dead portions of what evidently must have been these two species, and not 

 Pocadius ferrugineus, as recorded in my paper in the Ent. Mo. Mag. for February, 

 1898.— J. Harold Bailey, 128, Broad Street, Pendleton : November lOtA, 1899. 



Carabus intricatus, L., at Plymouth. — On the principle that it is better late 

 than never, it will ba perhaps well to record my capture of a pair ( $ and ? ) of 

 Carabus intricatus in moss on an oak in the old Plymouth habitat on May 28th, 

 1898. Judging by appearances that the $ was gravid I decided to keep her alive, 

 and remembering the general opinion amongst Coleopterists that this species occurs 

 " at sugar," I commenced my experiments with that substance for food. I never 

 saw any of it eaten, but as the beetle seemed lively and well I was content to wait 

 and watch. After a time, however, there was a perceptible loss of size with her, so 

 I discarded the sugar and gave minced lean raw beef instead, upon which she im- 

 mediately began to feed voraciously, and her normal condition was quickly restored. 



