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and Berosus signaticollls, Charp., with many commoner insects, opened the cam- 

 paign. Easter was spent at Hastings, and iiear Pevenscy I found Copelahm agUix, 

 F., fairly common ; an afternoon with Mr. Bennett at his locality at Bodle Street 

 produced, out of a small stream, many very good things, amongst them being 

 Srychlus elevatus, Panz., Deronectes latus, Stepli., Gyrinus urinator, 111., Hydro- 

 porus lepidits, 01., and five species of Hydrana, namely, testacea, Curt., riparia, 

 'K-ng., 7ugri(a, Germ., yracilis, Germ., and pulchella, Germ.; with them occurred 

 Potaminus substriatus, Miill. At Deal, a few days later, in ditches, I took llalipJun 

 variegatus, Sturm, Gyrinus eJongatus, Aube, Laccobius hipunctafus, F., L. aJutaceus, 

 Thoms., Noterns clavicornis, De G., and Copelatus agilis, F., this last being very 

 common. 



Between April 20th and May 18th I paid several visits to some ponds in an old 

 gravel pit (a locality I owe to the kindness of Mr. W. E. Shari^) near Han well. 

 Here I was fortunate enough to capture several beetles which do not often fall to 

 the lot of the collector : Dytiscns circumflexus^ F., Rhantus grapii, Gyll., E. exoletua, 

 Forst., R. pulverosu.9, Steph., Hydaticus seminiger, De G., Ilybius ater, De G., /. 

 obscurus, Marsh., Hydroporus granulans, L., Coelambus impressopunctatus, Schall., 

 HydropJiilus piceu», L., Hydrocharis carahoide.i, L., quite common, Hydrochus 

 elongatus, Schall., and many common things ; here again Copelatus agilis, P., 

 occurred in the greatest profusion. 



In the afternoon of April 27th a visit to Woking secured a fine series of Hydro- 

 poms flavipes, 01., out of ponds on Horsell Common, with Rhantus exoletu.t, 'Forst., 

 etc. The net had a rest from the middle of May until August l7th, when I paid a 

 short visit to Wicken Fen ; again I was fortunate in my captures, securing from 

 a small ditch Dytiscns dimidiatus. Berg., D. punctulatus, F., Hydaticus transver- 

 salis, Berg., and many commoner beetles, while out of pools in the Fen I obtained 

 HydropTiilus piceus, L. 



Since my arrival here I have only had one afternoon's collecting, when a visit 

 to a small swift running stream near Polmont brought in Hydroporus rival Is, Gyll., 

 H. Bavisii, Curt., Deronectes 12-pustulatns. Fab., Platambus maculatus, L., &c., 

 most of them being very abundant. — T. Hudson Beaee, 2, Heriot Eow, Edinburgh : 

 October 5tA, 1901. 



Medon castaneus, Grav., in Richmond Park. — I was lucky enough to sweep a 

 specimen of this very rare insect ofP herbage on the edge of a pond in Eiehmond 

 Park on April 22nd last. Further visits failed to bring any more to liglit, and until 

 we can discover something about the life-habits of this insect, it is evidently likely 

 to remain very rare in our collections. — Id. 



Attelabus curculionoides, L., attaching chestnut. — As it appears tliat this fact 

 has been but seldom recorded, I may remark that I have been familiar with it for 

 many years past ; I think, indeed, that the insect now prefers chestnut to oak. It 

 may be seen in profusion at Darenth Wood where oak and chestnut grow mingled, 

 and I have noticed it as being more numerous on the chestnut. It also uses this 

 plant freely in the Forest of Dean and in the New Forest, as well as at Haslemere, 

 and I think I have seen it elsewhere on the chestnut. The chestnut must be in the 



