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sixteen examples ; they appeared to be attached to Hyfericxim elodes, and several 

 immature individuals put into a jar with that plant and some bog moss became fully 

 developed in about a week. I never saw them feed, however, nor could I detect any 

 damage to the plants done by the bugs ; so that perhaps they would have thriven 

 equally well on any other plants from the same bog. — Id. 



Coleoptera in the Lake district. — The Eev. T. Wood, in the September number 

 of this Magazine (p. 213), records the fact that in June C. catenulatus was very 

 abundant on all the Fells near UUeswater, and at all altitudes. T am usually in the 

 Lake district, in the country between Scafell and the sea, in August, and I was struck 

 this year with the almost entire absence of this usually common Caralus : like Mr. 

 Wood I found one C. arvensis, but no C. glalratus, which usually puts in an 

 appearance. The scarcity of beetles was probably due to the dry and hot weather. 

 Earlier in the summer my wife took a specimen of Callidium violaceum in Eskdale ; 

 this is worth recording, as it does not appear to have occurred hitherto further north 

 than Manchester, and in the latter locality it has not, as far as I know, been taken 

 since the time of Stephens. I know of no other record further north than Binley, 

 Coventry, where my brother took an example in 1888. Professor Allen Harker 

 once took it by hundreds over a space of four or five years in an old summer house 

 at Cirencester, Gloucestershire. — W. W. Fowler, Lincoln : October ^\st, 1899. 



Should Leptidia hrevipennis, Muls., he included in the British List ? — This 

 insect has now turned up in so many places, that it is perhaps worth while to 

 examine its claim to a place in our list. The first notice of the capture of the beetle 

 in England appears to be by Canon Fowler (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1882, vol. xix, p. 89). 

 The origin of the numerous specimens recorded was an old basket "of French make 

 from Dutch willows." In 1894 Mr. J. H. Keys, of Plymouth, came across it in 

 swarms in the house of a friend ; these specimens were traced to a wicker basket in 

 which fruit or some kind of produce had been imported from Brittany. In 1897 

 Mr. T. E. Doeg, of Evesham, was investigating the insects (mostly Scolytidcs) which 

 had caused such destruction in the fruit gardens at Toddington, near Evesham, and 

 found Leptidia (again in some numbers) on and about the damaged fruit trees ; the 

 probable explanation of this would be that the insect came from the wicker baskets 

 in which the fruit was gathered for the market. Mr. Mosley, of Huddersfield, to 

 whom Mr. Doeg sent some of these specimens, remarks that Leptidia is not un- 

 common in some of the fruit sliops at Barnsley. Lastly, during June and July of 

 the present year, my nephew, Mr. F. A. Newbery, has taken some two dozen speci- 

 mens in the office of a wholesale druggist in the city, and although their origin has 

 not been ascertained, they are, doubtless, from carboy baskets and hampers of foreign 

 origin. In Canon Fowler's notice {loc. cit.), he has foreshadowed that the insect 

 would very likely become naturalized, and although none of the above captures can 

 be traced to British osier, it appears to me that the insect has at least as good a 

 claim to a place in our Catalogues as such insects as Rhizopertha pusilla, Lasioderma 

 serricorne, and many others.— E. A. Newbeky, 12, Churchill Road, N.W. 



Callidus lunatus, F., ^'c, at Chatham.— 1 captured four specimens of Callisius 

 lunatus on October 21st from under stones on a chalky bank with a south-western 

 aspect, at Walderslade Bottom, some three miles south of Chatham. Only one 



