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this case, liowevci', the interest of the record lies in the fact tliat these specimens 

 had been bred here and were taken from the larval gallery seven inclies from the 

 outside of the tree. Tliis was testified by a jiiece of the wood which Mr. Dixon- 

 Nuflall was good enough to send me displaying the galleries. A credible explana- 

 tion of the origin of the progenitors of these specimens is afforded by tlie fact that 

 some years ago new gate posts were nut down in or near this farm, some of which 

 were made of American ash. — W. E. Sharp, South Norwood : March 10th, 1905. 



[The late Mr. P. B. Mason has recorded the capture of N. erythrooephalus , 

 with another North American species, N. caprea, Say, at Burton-on-Trent, in an 

 ash tree which had been brought from Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland, cf. Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., vol. xxxiii, p. 91 (1897).— J. J. W]. 



Anifiotoma farva, Er., at SJceynes'^. — (hi Sept. 11th, 1904, at Skegness, Lines., 

 by searching in the hollows on the sand-hills between 5 and 6 p.m. I took amongst 

 a host of common beetles, 5 AnUotomas made up of one A. dubia, Kugel. (small 

 var.), one A. oj^a^ix, Schm., and three of the rare A. furva, Er. ftwo ? , one (J). 

 They have been examined and the names kindly supplied by Mr. G. C. Champion. — 

 E. W. MoESE, 9, Hill Top Mount, Roundhay Road, Leeds : March I6th, 1905. 



Ptinus tectus, Boield. : Synonymic note. — This species was first introduced by 

 Boieldieu in his " ilonographie des Ptiniores " (Ann. Ent. Soc. Fr., 1854, 652). 

 He gives P. pilonus, White (Voy. Ereb. Terr., 1846, xi, 8), as a synonym, and this 

 synonymy has been reproduced in various catologues. The type of White's ^j7o«m» 

 (which is labelled " pilosulun") is in the British Museum. Boieldieu's type isin the 

 possession of M. Bedel, and he has been kind enough to carefully compare British 

 specimens received from me with this type. Upon comparing these with White's 

 pilosus, it is evident that there is not the slightest resemblance between them. 

 White's insect is an elongate, parallel-sided insect, with close, decumbent, somewhat 

 greenish-grey pubescence, and is from New Zealand. It is remarkable that in some 

 points Boieldieu's description iigrees better with White's insect than with my 

 examples referred to above ; indeed, the description is a bad one for what we now 

 call Ptinus tectus, nor does it altogether accord with White's pilosulus. — E, A. 

 Newbeey, 12, Churchill Road, Dartmouth Park, N.W. : February Ihth, 1905. 



Diptera in the New Forest. — Mr. A. E. Gibbs, of St. Albans, has lately sent 

 me for determination a number of Diptera collected for him by Mr. W. Brameld, 

 of Brockenhurst. Among them are several species which may be worth mention 

 as usually rare, though some of them are not uncommon in the New Forest. I 

 cannot give the dates and localities, but all were taken in that district and almost 

 all in 1904. 



Of the Neynatocera I would only mention Limnobia annuJus, Mg. A fine 

 and very local species, and Pedicia rivosa, L., not perhaps uncommon, but a large 

 and very handsome insect. 



Of the Brachycera—Atylotusfulvus, Mg.,and Chrysops quadrata, Mg., seem to 

 have been common in the Forest, as well as several other Tabanidae. To these may 

 be added the pretty Oxycera jmlchella, Mg , the exotic looking Anthrax fenes- 



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