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Under bark I found about twenty Plegaderus dissectits, Er., six Paromalus 

 Jlavicornis, Herbst, and one each of Scydmanus exilis, Er., Mycetophagus piceus, 

 ¥., Ips qiiadriguttata, F., Thymalus limbatus, F., and Quedius ventralit, Av. Di- 

 toma crenata, F., Cerylunferruginenm, Stcph., rtinella denticollis, Fairm , P. aptera, 

 Guer., and Philonthus splendidulus, Grav., wei-e all common in the same situation. 

 One specimen of Epuraa decemguttata, F., was taken at a Coj.vh.v- infected tree, and 

 Jlyce/oporus punctu.i, GjlL, and Ptilium marginatum, Aube, also turned up, the 

 latter by sweeping very short grass in the evening. — Norman H. Jot, Bradfield, 

 near Reading : tSeptemher 2nd, 1903. 



Coleoptcra at Rannoch. — Having recently spent a fortnight at this Mecca of 

 entomologists, a record of my captures may possibly be of interest. The weather, 

 however, was very much against me. During the whole of my stay we had no 

 single day without rain, and seldom saw the sun at all, while there was also a good 

 deal of easterly wind, which rendered sweeping almost impossible. Quite apart 

 from this, iiowever, I can emphatically endorse Mr. J. J. Walker's statement (cf. 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., ser 2, vol. xi, p. 21) to the effect that the Rannoch district is a 

 difficult one to work. The good things are there, but most certainly they do not 

 tumble into one's killing bottle ; and without a bicycle one would be terribly 

 handicapped. 



CarabidcB were not very plentiful. I took seven specimens of Carabus glabratus, 

 however, not on the mountains, but strolling about in broad daylight in one parti- 

 cular pathway in the Black Wood. Mr. Donisthorpe, who was with me on one 

 occasion, took another. The only other specitjs of the genus met with was C. 

 catenu(atus,a good deal more brightly coloured than is usual with southern examples. 

 Trechus riibens turned up in a sawpit on the Struan road, and I got a single Patro- 

 bus septentrionis under a stone near the bank of the Loch. Bembidia were repre- 

 sented by a single B. femoratum, and I saw no Anchonieni. 



Hydradephaga were decidedly scarce. I could only find one or two pools 

 wliich it was possible to fish, and even from these I did not get more than a couple 

 of dozen beetles altogether ; quite half of these were HaLiplus fulvus, very dark in 

 colour. Three or four Agabus chalcoiiotus turned up, and four Uydropori, be- 

 longing to as many species, decoratus, GyUenhali, atriceps, and obscurus. The only 

 noteworthy example of the HydrophilidcB was Hydrana pygmma, under a stone in 

 a burn. 



Among the ISiaphylinida, Q,uedionuchus lavigatusvraa abundant under the bark 

 of decaying logs in the Dall sawpit, and Quedius xanthopus under that of felled 

 pines on the opposite side of the Loch, the spot, apparently, where Mr. Walker 

 found it. Nothing else of any note turned up, save Stenus Otiynemeri in a mossy 

 stream, and a single Tachinus dungalus, which a Lepidopterist brought me from 

 the summit of iSchiehailion. 



Liod.es glabra was fairly common under the bark of some pine railings near 

 the entrance to the Black Wood, and also on logs in the sawpit. A single Silpha 

 nigrita was crawling on the road close by. On the famous CossBS-infested tree in 

 the Black Wood Cetonia Jioricola was to be taken in numbers; on one occasion 

 sixteen specimens were all huddled together in a space that could almost be covered 



