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Quedius nigriceps, Kr, ; Q. semiceneus, Steph. ; Q. hoops, Gr. ; StaphtfUnus pu- 

 hescens, De G. ; S. erythropterus, L. ; Ocypus brunnipes, F. ; Anthophngus testaceus, 

 Gr. ; Lesteva muscorum, Diiv. ; LathrirnfEum unicolor, Steph. ; Acrulia inflata, 

 Gyll. (only two specimens of this rarity were secured). 



In the Clavicorns we got Agathidium atrum, Pk. ; A. nigripenne, F. ; A. Icevi- 

 gatum,^r.; Liodes humeral is, F. ; L. glabra, 'Kng. ; L. castanea,lihBt. ; Saprinus 

 nitidulus, Pk. ; Ips qitadripustulatus, F. ; Rhizophagus ferrugineus, Pk. ; R. de- 

 pressus, F. ; R. dispar, Vk. ; Halyzia \G-guttata, h.; H. H-gitfJala,!!.; Mysia 

 ohlongoguttata, L. ; Elmis Volkmari, Pz. ; Parnus prolifericornis , F. In dung, 

 Aphodius lappouum, Gyll. ; A. depressus,l^\\g. ; and A. puiridits, Cr. ; were taken, 

 and in sandy places .Egialia sabuleti, Pk. 



The following were secured mainly by beating the tops of felled Scots firs, 

 birches, and mountain ashes, and by sweeping (though on the wliole this method of 

 collecting was singularly unproductive), and by searching the stumps of newly felled 

 fir trees, Athous vittatus, F. ; Corymbites cupreus \. ceruginosus. Germ. ; C. quercus, 

 Gyll. ; C. iinpressus, F. ; Campylus linearis, L. ; Telephorus alpiiitts, Pk. ; T. ni- 

 gricans V. discoideus, Steph. ; T. pel lucid us, ¥. ; T. paludostis,Va\\. ; T. ohsciirus, 

 L. ; Rhagonycha elongata. Fall. ; Friobium castaneum, F. ; Eros aurora, F. (one 

 under the bark of a fir stump) ; Rhagium indagator, L. ; R. bifasciatum, F. ; 

 Asemum striatum, L. ; Chrysomela fastuosa, L. ; C. varians, F. ; C marginata, L. 

 (the last two were found, the first crawling on a path, the second dead in a sandy 

 spot, near the Spey) ; Donacia discolor, Pz. ; Haltica pusilla, Duft. ; Clerus for- 

 micarius, L. ; Helodes marginata, F. ; Anthonornus conspersus, Desb. ; Deporaus 

 megacephalus, Germ. ; Rhinomacer attelahoides, F. ; Magdalinus phlegmatieus, Hbst. 

 (this insect was very common on the fir tops, and varied extraordinarily in size) ; 

 Phyllobius maculicornis y. cinereus. Fowl.; P. pomonrB v. cinereipennis, Gyll.; 

 Dorytomus tortrix, L. ; Pissodes pini, L. ; and Hylobius abietis, L., in great 

 profusion. 



Otiorrhynchiis blandus, Gyll., was common, and Barynotus SchiJnherri, Zett., 

 was rare under stones, and in shingle by the side of the river Truim Cryptohypnus 

 dermestoides, Hbst., and the v. quadriguttatus, Lep., turned up commonly with 

 another species of the genus, about which I shall have something to say in another 

 article.— T. Hudson Beabe, 10, Regent Terrace, Edinburgh : July, 1903. 



Pachyta sexmaculata at Av!emore.-~W\n\e walking over from the Station this 

 afternoon in the hot sunshine, about four o'clock, the pretty little longicorn Pachyta 

 sexmaculata flew past me and settled upon a paling just in front of me ; I need not 

 say but little time elapsed before it was in my death-bottle. I took this specimen 

 not more than four miles distance from the place where my mother captured the 

 original specimen recorded by Mr. G. C. Champion. — James J. F. X. King, 

 Aviemore : July 4:th, 1903. 



Asemum striatum in Dorsetshire.— On May 25th last I captured, flying in the 

 High Street of Wareham, Dorset, a specimen of Asemum striatum. This is the 

 fourth or fifth example that has occurred in the Southern counties. I recorded one 

 which I took in Lord's Wood, near Southampton, in 1894, in the " Entomologist " 

 for that year; since then two or three have been met with in the New Forest, but 

 I am not aware that it has been found further west before. Therefore, the range 



