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mens of Omalium septentrlonis, Thorns., in a very putrid fungus on the Downs near 

 Guildford. Unfortunately the species was not recognised at the time, or doubtless 

 more could have been secured : it has not hitherto been recorded from the south of 

 England.* On the same day three males of Anisotoma Triephei, Schmidt, wer.e 

 swept from coarse grass on the open slopes, an insect not previously seen by me 

 away from pine woods (Woking and Fleet), and which has quite disappeared from 

 its old locality here. On May 23rd the following species were taken near Godal- 

 ming :- — Copris lunaris, L., in horse dung ; Bledhts subterraneus, Er., in plenty on 

 the wing in a sandy place in the evening ; Tachyusa umhratica, Er., T. constricta, 

 Er., by the Wey ; Enicmus testaceus, Steph., in fungoid growth on a tree stump ; 

 Ceuthorrhynchus setosus, Boh., by sweeping ; Pliilopedon geminatus, F., in a sand- 

 pit, a common seaside species, previously recorded by me from Guildford, and also 

 met with last year at Willey. Priomis coriarius, L. ( ? ) was found on a rotten ash 

 tree at Guildford on October 7th, and Colon dentipes. Sahib., in the same neighbour- 

 hood on September 19th.— G. C. Champion, Horsell : October Slh, 1903. 



Coleoptera from Berkshire.— Since my last report in the July number of the 

 Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, I find that I have added nearly fifty new species 

 of Coleoptera to the Berkshire list, some of which I think are worth recording. 

 Beetles have certainly not been quite so reduced in numbers since July as one would 

 have been led to expect from their great scarcity earlier in the year. Although tlie 

 number of individuals in one's sweeping net has been generally extraordinarily few, 

 some interesting species have occasionally found their way into it, including single 

 specimens of Cryphalus fagi, Nord., Axinotarsus ruficoUis, 01., Axpidiphorus 

 orbiculatus, Gyll., Anisotoma oralis, Schmidt, and Abdera bifaxciata, Marsh. 

 These last three and two ^mp/iic^/^w^/oJas, F., were swept from short wet grass 

 in woods in the evening. I took, last year, by sweeping in the same way, three 

 specimens of a Colon I was miable to identify, but now have been able to make 

 them out as Colon dentipes, Sahl., two fine males occurring in the same wood 

 this year 



I have on several occasions visited the numerous Cos«Ms-infe8ted trees in the 

 neighbourhood, and have found all my usual captures, but in much diminished 

 numbers. Three new species have also turned up : Atomaria elovgatula, Ev., 

 Philonthus fuscus, Grav., and Qnedius ventralis, Ar. This latter I have also taken 

 under bark and in a mouse's nest. 



In the im.mediate neighbourhood the other species of interest I have taken are 

 Enicmus testaceus, Steph., in a puff-ball on a tree ; and Mycetoporus clavicornis, 

 Steph., and Trichopteryx dispar, Matth., by sifting dead leaves. Mordellistena 

 humeralis, L., and 31. brunnea, F., occurred in some numbers in one wood on 

 Umbelliferte. 



My favourite wood in the Streatley neighbourhood, where I have taken 

 Diploccelus fagi, Guer., and other New Forest species, has always been worth 

 visiting. Enicmus brevicornis, Mann., once occurred in large numbers on a dead 

 beech tree. Tillus elongatus, L., was taken on another occasion. Anommatus 

 12-striatus, Mull., was found under an old log ; Aleochara cuinculorum, Kr., in 

 rabbit holes ; and Neuraphes angulatus, Miill., under bark. 



* cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxviii, p. 268. 



