20 'January, 



L. (six specimens) ; C. cinteloides, Pz. (six specimens) ; NotiopMlun higuttatiis, F. 

 (one specimen) ; Trechua obfuxux, Er. (two specimens) ; Oci/ptis ater, Gr. (one 

 specimen) ; PhUonthuK rarius, Gryll. (one specimen) ; Aphodiiis rujipes, L. (one 

 specimen) ; Cholera grandicollis, Er. (three specimens).— Id. 



Phytobius muricatu.i, Ch. Bris., in Cumberland. — I am glad to be able to give 

 this species a place in our county list of Coleoptera, specimens having been taken 

 by Mr. Britten and myself in August last near Penrith from damp moss growing 

 on the ground in a boggy place. It is a very sluggish insect, and takes many 

 minutes to get on the move, failing which it is almost impossible to detect it on the 

 sheet among the loose earth, &c., shaken out of the moss. One or two P. comari, 

 Herbst, occurred at the same time, with Pselaphu.t dresdenxix, TTerbst, Philonthus 

 corvinux, Er., &c. P. muricatus was introduced as British in 1899, ride Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., rol. XXXV, p. 143.— P. H. Day, Carlisle : December \2th, 1904. 



Atemeles emarginatux, Pk., and Claviger testaceus, Preyxs., in N. Wales. — 

 Records of ants' nest beetles are scarce in the north, so T think it worth while to 

 notice localities for these two species. Claviger iestaceux, Preyss., occurred to Mr. 

 Newstead rather commonly near Colwyn Bay in April, 1886, and I took three speci- 

 mens last August at Glyndyfrdwy, in each instance in nests of Formica flava. Of 

 Atemeles emarginattis, Pk., Mr. Newstead took two examples in May, 1890, at the 

 Loggerheads, near Mold, and Mr. Button and I took a good series last August at 

 Glyndyfrdwy : both these records are from nests of Fonnica fuxca ; and Mr' 

 Jackson informs me that he has taken it sparingly at Llanbedr, Merionethshire. — 

 J. R. LE B. ToMLiN, Chester : December, 1901. 



Coleoptera at Tri>7g.—Th\s year, whilst at Tring, in the early part of October, 

 I again tried the spot where one example of Apion anmilijjes, Wenck., was taken 

 previously, and succeeded in securing eighteen in all ; of these I was surprised to 

 find that eight were males. Most of the specimens were knocked off some sickly- 

 looking plants of Origanum, vulgare, growing close to a wood, and three were found 

 running over the leaves of Thymus serpyllum. The testaceous coloration of the 

 tibiae in the males, although fairly well marked in the anterior pair, seems far from 

 distinct in the anterior and posterior ones in my specimens, and in fact is practically 

 absent in one or two of them. Longitarsus tabidus, Fabr., was found on its usual 

 food-plant, Verbaxcum thapsus, and was accompanied by a few L. distinguendus. 

 Rye, L. gracilis, Kutsch., and L. melanocephalus. Komalota clavigera, Scriba, 

 once more turned up in dead leaves, after an interval of six years ; other species 

 found with it were Badister sodalix, Duft., Romalota validiuscula, Kr., and 

 IT. intermedia. Thorns., Mycetoporus clavicornis, Steph., Quedius lateralis, Grav., 

 Oxytelus fairmairei, Pand., Neuraphex elongatulux, Miill, &c.— E. Geo. Elliman, 

 Chesham : November l^th, 1904. 



Orchestes sparsus, Fahr., in the New Forest.— On August 28th, this year, I took 

 a specimen of the very rare Orchestes .tparsus at Brockenhurst, by beating oak. It 

 rested in our lists heretofore on the strength of a single example taken by 

 Dr. Power at Surbiton in 1866. Dr. Sharp introduced it as British on this speci- 



