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Brachypteru.t nrticce, F., Anisotoma cajcarata, Er., Sphceroderma cardu>, Gyll-, 

 uiostlj off ragwort, and off long rank grass in a lateral valley where once there had 

 been a forest, now only marked by a few dead stumps ; off dead fir boughs I beat 

 Salpiiiffus castaneus, I'z., and Shinoshnns planiroslris, F. Wherever I found 

 suitable moss it was carefully worked, but not with much success, except in one or 

 two instances, tlie following being the best insects obtained : — Eunjporus picipes, 

 Pk., Quedius am-icomii.f, Kies. (conniion in moss at the side of a tiny mountain 

 stream some 1100 feet up), Sfenus Guynemeri, Duv., scarce in some places; 

 Chilopora riihicunda, Er., Myllcena brevicornis, Mat., Oymnusa variegata, Kies., 

 and Hydt'oporus nigrita, F. A single Taphria nivalis, Pz., was found under a 

 stone in a turnip field, and a cod's head put out in the garden as a trap produced 

 nothing except such common things as Creophilus maxillosus, L., Hitter succicola, 

 Th., iSilpha rugosa, L., and Philonthus ceneux, Rossi, one of these latter witli red 

 elytra and legs, and apparently quite mature. — T. Hudson Beaue, 10, Regent 

 Terrace, Edinburgh : January \.st, 1903. 



Zeugophora Jlavicollis, Marsh., in Epping Forest.— On August 20th last I beat 

 a large $ Zeugophora fiacicollis from aspen near Theydon Bois ; I do not think this 

 species has been found before in Epping Forest. Although all the other aspens 

 seen in the neighbourhood were beaten, no further specimens could be had. — Stanley 

 W. Kemp, 80, Oxford Gardens, W. : January, 1903. 



Coleoptera near Dublin. — During about ten days' collecting in the neighbour- 

 hood of Dublin towards the end of October and beginning of November, I had the 

 pleasure of adding three species to the Irish list. They are Uydroporus longicornis, 

 Sharp, Fhytosus nigricentris, Chcvr., and Omalium rugulipenne, Rye. On November 

 let, I ascended Mount Kippure in the hope of getting Agabus arcticus, Payk. In 

 this I was unsuccessful, but among a number of Ilydropori captured, of the species 

 morio, pubescens and obscurus, I found a specimen of longicornis. The elevation 

 was about 2,200 feet. Dr. Sharp kindly confirmed my identification of this insect. 

 I am also indebted to him for identifying Omalium rugulipenne. This species 

 occurs all along the Dublin coast, under seaweed, decaying vegetation, etc. On the 

 sea-shore of the North Bull sandbank, and at Baldoyle and Sutton it may be taken 

 in profusion in company with Oxytelus marilimus, Thoms. At Baldoyle I took a 

 single specimen of Fhytosus nigriventris, in company with P. balticus. It is curious 

 that both O. rugulipenne and P. nigriventris are taken on the Wallesey coast, on 

 the opposite side of the Irish Channel. Other insects of interest captured were 

 Bryclius elevatus, Panz., of which single specimens were taken in one or two rapid 

 running streams ; Ccnlambus quinquelineatus, Zett., abundant in a few old quarry- 

 pit ponds; Hydroponis rivalis, Gyll., septentrionalis , Gyll., and Uavisii, Curt.; 

 one specimen of i/enicocerMs exsculptus, Germ., and a series of Octhebius auriculatus. 

 Key. This last species was fairly common in the Portmarnock salt-marsh, where 

 I also took a single specimen of Jlecintis collaris, Germ. — Id. 



Asemitm striatum and other Coleoptera i7i the New Forest. — I spent the first 

 week of last June collecting in the neighbourhood of Brockenhurst. For some time 

 previous the weather had been cold and stormy, and the effects of the frost and 



