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both females : one was taken in October, 1001, by sweeping the close low growing 

 herbage, characteristic to a large extent of the chalk hills ; the other was swept 

 from Origanum vulgare in July last. The following captures have also been made 

 in the neighbourhood •--Ilomalota languida, Er., in cut grass, H. validiuscula, Kr., 

 H. testaceipes, Heer, and H. testudinea, in dead leaves ; BoUtochara lucida, Qrav., 

 and B. bella, Mark., in old stumps ; Oligota JIavieornis, Lac, Trichophya pili- 

 cornis, G-yll.. in sand-pit ; Quedius lateralis, Qrav., Staphylinus stercorarius, 01., 

 <S^. latebricola, Grav., Medon fusculus, Mannh., Stenufs crassus, Steph., S. fuscicor- 

 nis, Er., Platystethus capita, Heer, P. nitens, Sahib., Acidota cruentata, Mannh., 

 one in rotten leaves, Homalium planum, Payk., H. striatum, Grav., Agathidium 

 marginatum, Sturm, A. convexum. Sharp, Cyrtusa pauxilla, Schmidt, Anisotoma 

 rugosa, Steph., Colon serripes, Sahib. ; Smicrus filicornis, Matth., a single example 

 in decaying leaves ; Cartodere filiformis, Gyll., in damp cupboard of an old house ; 

 Phloeophilus Edivardsi, Steph., Longitarsus lycopi, Foudr., L. pulex, Schr. ; Epi- 

 trix atropcB, Foudr., very plentiful on Atropa belladonna and Solatium dulcamara. 

 Miarus graminis, G-yll., has been this year more than usually abundant, in the 

 flowers of Campanula glomerata, being for once much commoner than its congener, 

 M. campanula, L. ; Ceuthorrhynchus euphorbice, Bris., was found on Veronica 

 chamadrys, and a single specimen of a Ceuthorrhynchus, found in flood refuse, must, 

 I think, be referred to C. punctiger, Gyll. ; Ceuthorrhynchidius nigrinus, Marsh., 

 was fairly plentiful in dry dead leaves in October ; Xyleborus Saxeseni, Ratz., was 

 taken on the wing. — E. Geo. Elliman, Chesham : November ISth, 1902. 



An additional locality for Lathridius Bergrothi, Reitt. — I have just lately 

 submitted to Mr. Champion specimens of a Lathridius, which he identifies as 

 belonging to the above species. I first noticed the insect about a year ago ; the 

 examples taken inhabited an old and somewhat musty cupboard on my business 

 premises here ; most of them had been trapped in jars, &c., into which they had 

 fallen ; and were accompanied by Corticaria fulva, Cartodere filiformis, Enicmus 

 minutus, Mycetaa hirta, various Cryptophagi, Blaps mucronata, &c. — Id. 



Lathridius Bergrothi, Beitt., at Oxford. — In the spring of this year I took, 

 among other small beetles in the cellar of my house, specimens of a Lathridius not 

 described in Fowler's " British Coleopteray When the Members of the Council 

 of the Entomological Society visited the Hope Department in the Oxford University 

 Museum in July, I asked Dr. Sharp to look at these insects, and he kindly named 

 them as Lathridius Bergrothi, Reitt., a species first recorded for this country last 

 year (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxvii, p. 18). Later in the summer the Lathridius gradually 

 became more plentiful, and in the autumn they were to be had in hundreds by 

 beating firewood faggots and lumber in the cellar. L. Bergrothi has quite recently 

 been recorded (Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902) as having been found in an old straw hat at 

 Winiereux, Pas-de-Calais, and in old baskets in Normandy. — • W. Holland, 

 University Museum, Oxford : November 2,2th, 1902. 



Phytosus nigriventris, Chevr., ^c, at Whitsand Bay. — At Whitsand Bay, near 

 Plymouth, all three British species of the genus Phytosus may be found, and 



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