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Another isolated capture of A. anthohia at Cliatham lias been recorded by Prof. 

 Hudson Beare (Ent. Mo. Mag., May, 1905). Mr. Willoughby Ellis, of Knowle, 

 Warwickshire, informs me that he has taken the beetle in some numbers, and he 

 sends the following interesting particulars of his captures. 



Specimens. Date of Capture. 



Cannock Chase 1 May, 1882. 



Hartlepool 1 May, 1892. 



Hopwas Wood 5 April, 1895. 



Leighton Buzzard , 1 March 3, 1898. 



Sandown, Isle of Wight 1 May, 1899. 



Woburn, Beds. 



(8 miles distant from Leighton) ... 37 April 4, 1900. 



Knowle, Warwickshire 1 June 1, 1903. 



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Commander J. J. Walker has also discovered one specimen among his duplicates, 

 labelled" Chatham district," and taken by himself probably in 1898 or 1899, he 

 tells me. This gives eleven isolated occurrences of the beetle at least. The earliest 

 British capture that has come to my notice, if we may assume it to be so, is a beetle 

 in the possession of Mr. Tomlin. I have examined this specimen, and it is un- 

 doubtedly A. anthohia. It was found in the old British Collection of Sheppard, and 

 written underneath the mount in somewhat faded ink is the date " -5^," i- e., 29 

 years prior to Mr. Ellis's first capture in 1882. No locality is recorded. The insect 

 come to me with one example of A. lucida, of exactly the same date from the same 

 collection. 



It will be interesting to see if time will bring to light the record of any eai'lier 

 British capture of A. anthohia than this, and now that the beetle is known to 

 collectors, to what extent it will betaken (to he continued). — G-EORGE A. Crawshay, 

 Leighton Buzzard : Mat/ I9th, 1905. 



Acrognathus mandibularis, GylL, Sfc, near Woking. — Duv'mg the past week, 

 a week of very hot, dry weather, I and my boy have captured several specimens of 

 Acrognathus mandibularix, GylL, in this neighbourhood. They were caught on the 

 wing, just before sunset, in a damp, secluded lane, flanked on either side by a 

 nearly dry ditch filled with an accumulation of rotting leaves, from which they 

 appeared to be emerging. Triarthron mdrkeli, Schmidt, Thalycra sericea, Sturm, 

 and ThroKcus carinifrons, Bonv., were also taken on the wing at the same place. 

 The locality is a new one for Acrognathus, which I had not previously seen alive. 

 It may be noted, however, that Dr. Power once caught an example of it in a similar 

 manner at Claygate Lane, about twelve miles distant, and that Compsochilus and 

 Deleaster have both been captured flying in the evening at Horsell or Woking. — 

 G. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking : June 3rd, 1905. 



Scymnus livldus, Bold, a synonym of S. testaceus, Mots. — By the courtesy of 

 the curator of the Newcastle-on-Tyne Museum, I have been enabled to examine 

 Bold's type of S. lividus. There can, I think, be no doubt that it is a small pale 



