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A. alni has not, so far as I am aware, been taken in this country since the time 

 of Stephens, who recorded it from " near London, Exeter, and Bristol." As to 

 whether the specimens found by us were indigenous I am, of course, not in a 

 position to say, and can only speculate as to how they arrived in the streets of Deal. 



We made a second journey on May 27th to look for A. alni, but although the 

 day was bright and hot, we found no more specimens. I was, however, personally 

 well rewarded by picking up on a path a specimen of the now very scarce and ex- 

 tremely local Elaterid, Melanotus punctolineatus. — F. B. Jennings, 152, Silver 

 Street, Upper Edmonton, N. : May 29th, 1900. 



[I have taken A. alni on the dunes on the opposite coast at Calais, so there 

 seems no reason why the insect should not occur at Deal. — G. C. C] 



Compxochilus palpalis, Er., Sfc, at Woking. — I captured a specimen of Comp- 

 sochllus palpalis, Er.,on the wing, in a lane near here yesterday evening, just before 

 a thunderstorm ; 25 years having elapsed since I had seen the insect alive, in another 

 part of this county. On the evening of June 10th an example of Trechus ruhens, 

 Fabr., was caught under similar circumstances; this species also had not previously 

 been seen by me in the district. Mr. Saunders tells me that he once took a specimen 

 of it on the wing at Chobham. The only other insects met with this year in the 

 neighbourhood at all worthy of note are : — Harpalus consentaneus, Dej., one speci- 

 men (a common coast-species not previously met with by me inland, but recorded 

 already from Woking) ; Mslaadrya caraboides, Linn., Xylehorus dryographus, Er., 

 and Euconnus denticoryiis , Miill., on the wing towards evening ; Carabus arvensis, 

 Fabr., on the heath; StrangaUa nigra, Linn., Phyllobrotica quadrimacidata, Linn., 

 Ceraleptus lividus. Stein, by sweeping. At Guildford I have again taken Philopednn 

 ^e»?zwa^!(*, Fabr., in a sandpit ; also Eysarcoris melanocephalus, Yahr., on Umbelli- 

 ferce, and Conostethus roseus, Fall., in plenty at the roots of plants in a sandpit. — 

 G. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking : June \Mh, 1900. 



A reply to Mr. Keys' note on Homalota viciva, Steph. — In a letter recently 

 received from my friend M. A. Fauvel, of Caen, he makes the following remarks on 

 Mr. Keys' note on this insect {antea, p 134) : — " I hasten to tell you that I have 

 seen a single specimen of Atheta vicina, Steph., which has the abdomen tubercu- 

 lated, as in the four examples found by Mr. Keys. This specimen is in the collection 

 of M. Carpentier (of Amiens), who found it at Boves (Somme) ; the tubercle of the 

 second segment is very stout, that of the third segment being one-half smaller, and 

 placed at the base of this segment. I regard this as an excessive sexual develop- 

 ment of the male, and not as a variety." Mr. Keys' examples agree exactly with 

 M. Fauvel's description. — Id. 



luuicir. 



The Insects of Aldernet : by W. A. Luff. Reprinted from the " Trans- 

 actions of the Guernsey Society of Natural Science " for 1899, 8vo, pp. 23. 



This is a second edition of the List noticed by us in this Magazine for 1898, p. 



