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Scotland (Ent. Mo. Mag., Vol. siii [2nd Series], p. 110), but, as far as I am aware, 

 Miere is no previous autlicntic record of the capture of tlie ^ . I have to thank 

 Mr. Austen for kindly identifying my specimen. On the same day — one of the few 

 really hot days of the past summer — I was surprised to find the (? s of Tabanus 

 autumnalii, L., occurring on the tree-trunks and a piece of fencing as commonly, or 

 more so, than the $ s. I took 18 ? s of this species, and also 1 T. bruinius, L., ^ . 

 On previous visits I had not noticed any <? l\iba)iidce, but perhaps the comparatively 

 late hour (between 4 and 5 p.m.) may have accounted for their settling on the tree- 

 trunks, and their inactivity when disturbed. — Id. 



Coleopfera at. Innerleithen In Peeblesshire. — My summer holidays last year were 

 spent at a cottage on the Tweed about Ij miles above the small town of Innerleithen, 

 and about 5 miles below Peebles. The house, where we lived from August lltli to 

 September 1st, stood on the lower slopes of Lee Pen, a fine hill rising to a height of 

 nearly 170U feet, and in front between the river and the high road was a narrow belt 

 of pasture fields ; the opposite bank of the river rises steeply, and is mostly covered 

 with plantations of pines. Fine roads run along both banks of the river ; and as 

 Innerleithen stands at the junction of the Leithen water, with the Tweed opposite 

 to which the Traquair water comes in, there were two fine lateral valleys close at 

 hand, both with well-kept roads ; the road up Traquair water gives access over a 

 pass, which rises to over 1000 feet, to the valley of the Yarrow water and the beau- 

 tiful St. Mary's Loch, so beloved of Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd. It was, therefore, 

 an ideal spot for cycling ; rarely a day passed in wliicli we did not cover some 20 to 

 30 miles in one direction or another ; the whole district is famous in Border romance 

 and song, and is so full of antiquarian interest that entomology had many rivals 

 during our holiday ; nevertheless, I did manage, by taking advantage of every oppor- 

 tunity, to find a few good beetles, and as the district has not probably been worked 

 before, they are worth putting on record. By sluicing at sandy spots on the river 

 bank, Bembidium decorum, Pz., B. tibiale, Duft., and B. monticola, Sturm ; lloma- 

 lota elongatula, Gr., 11. currax, Kr., and others, were obtained, and a similar plan 

 on the Yarrow produced a specimen of Philonthus fulvipes, F. Out of small 

 burns, tributaries to the river, came Jli/drcena pi/ffmcEa,'Wnt., H. ffracilis, Qerm., 

 Hydropurus rivalis, GylL, and H. septentrionalis, Gyll. Crawling on the roads, 

 usually at dusk, I found Cychrus rostratus, L., Carabus nemoralis, Miill., Acidota 

 crenata, ¥., Homalota eremita, Eye, Staphylinus stercorarius, 01., Barynotus 

 ohscurus, F., Serica brunnea, L., and many common things; unfortunately, the 

 nights were too cool to make this, as it often is, a prolific form of collecting ; there 

 were several ground frosts during our stay. Under stones, on the higher parts of 

 the hills which line both sides of the valley of the Tweed, Carabus catenulatus, 

 Scop., was exceedingly common ; Bradycellus cognatus, Gyll., and B. collaris, Pk. 

 not uncommon ; Calathus micropterus, Duft., very abundant, while Amara 

 lunicollis, Schiod., Olisthopus rotundatus, Pk., and many other commoner Carabidce, 

 were to be found fairly abundantly ; the common " staphs " in such situations were 

 Ocypus hrunnipes, F., O. cupreus, Eossi, Othius melanocephalus, Gr., &c. Sweeping 

 and beating were of little avail, and, in fact, only two days were in the least fruitful 

 in this respect, the sweep net pi-oducing Phyllotreta flexuosa, Kuts., Hylastes 

 cunicularius, Eatz., Longitarsus fuscicollis, Steph., Antherophagus niffricornis,¥., 



