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ponds : — Pelobins tardus, ITerbst, Rhantus pulverosus, Steph., Enochrus bicohr, 

 GjlL, Philhydrus nigricans, Zett., and P. coarctatus, Gredl. ; at Wimbledon in 

 the same month Agabus paludosus, F., and A. didymtis, Ol., were found in the 

 brook (both also were common in June), and Cymbiodyta ovalis, Thorns., in a pond, 

 while on May 5th a small pond near Chobham, Surrey, produced Berosus luridus, 

 L , and Hydrochus angustatus, Germ., in great profusion ; I have found angustatus 

 common in Richmond Park also. 



At the end of May I secured from a pond near Oxshott Hydroporus granularis, 

 L., H. tcmbrosus, G-ylL, and H. obscurus, Sturm, and a few days later (early in June) 

 the two latter again turned up fairly commonly, accompanied again by granularis, 

 and by H. neglectus, Schaura, and H. tristis, Payk., but all these three were very 

 scarce. From the Black Pond at Esher on the same day I obtained Rhantus exo- 

 letus, Forst., Ilybius cenescens, Thoms., and Philhydrus minutus, F., the latter being 

 very abundant. 



Richmond Park produced in June Helochares lividus, Forst. (puncfatus, Sharp) ; 

 I found commonly ail over the district, Coelambus infequalis, F., C. versicolor, 

 SchalL, Dytiscus piinctulatus, F., Agabus femoral is, Payk., Limnebius nitidus, Marsh., 

 Octhebius pygmaus, F., and Hydrochus elongatus, Schall. 



A day at Deal on June 9th, working the ditches in the Marshes, brought in 

 Haliplus obliquus, Er., Hydroporus pictus, F., and IT. lituratus, F., Coelambus 

 parallelogrammus, Ahr. (in great profusion), Rhantus notatus, Berg., Hydrobius 

 oblongus, Herbst, Philhydrus testaceus, F., and Octhebius bicolon, Germ. 



At Camber, near Rye, I secured on May 20th (thanks to Mr. Bennett) a few 

 specimens of that very local insect, Bidessus unistriatus, Schr. ; he discovered it 

 there a few days before, as in Mr. Champion's experience it occurred in shallow clear 

 water; here also I took Berosus spinosus, Stev., and affinis, Erulle, the latter being 

 very common. 



In mossy pools on the hills above Kinloch Rannoch on June 26th I obtained 

 Agabus guttatus, Payk., congener, Payk., and the var. Solieri, Aube, of bipustulatus, 

 Ij., with Hydroporus morio, J) cj., and Philhydrus melanocephahis, 01., besides a 

 few other more generally distributed species. 



During the past few days I have obtained in Richmond Park Hydroporus pictus, 

 F., and lituratus, F., in the Wimbledon brook, with Haliplus cinereus, Aub^. — T. 

 Hudson Beaee, King's Road, Richmond, Surrey : July, 1900. 



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Birmingham Entomological Society: June 18^7*, 1900. — Mr. A. H. 

 Mabtineah in the Chair. 



Mr. R. C. Bradley showed a piece of wood with borings, taken from a paling at 

 Selsley, Glos., at Whitsuntide, from which he was breeding beetles of a species of 

 Clytus, which had been noticed to be common in the neighbourhood of the paling. 

 Mr. A. D. Imms, two unusually small specimens of Euchloe cardamines ( ^ $ ) ; one 

 from Hall Green, near Birmingham, measured only 1\" in expanse ; the other from 

 Hay, South Wales, measuring \\\". Mr. A. H. Martineau, a series of the un- 

 connnon ant, Leptothorax acervoncm from Selsley, where he had found a small 

 colony ; also a black variety of Formica rufa, taken on April 22nd last in the com- 

 pany of ordinary specimens at Haywood. — Colbran J. Wainwriout, Hon. Sec. 



