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impossible to say, or if so, whel her it afterwards made a precarious but continued 

 occupation is doubtful. It is very likely that it has been introduced with trees 

 from Ireland during the last century, just as Pissodes notatus, F., and Bhinomacer 

 attelahoides, P., and other species, liave been introduced into England since the 

 re-introduction of the Scotch fir during the last 200 years, this tree having in past 

 ages been indigenous both in England and Ireland, but afterwards having dis- 

 appeared.— J. Harold Bailey, Port Erin, Isle of Man: November \st,\QOi:. 



Coleoptera from BerJcuhire. — On account of pressure of work this summer 

 T have had few chances of visiting my favourite districts of Streatley and 

 Wellington College, Aqathidium niqripenne, Kng., being the only species new to 

 the former district, and Pht/llohrofica quadrimaculata, L., and Amphotii mar- 

 ginata, Er., to the latter. I have, however, searched some small copses and water 

 meadows close to my house more systematically than before, and several species 

 new to the neighbourhood have been taken, mostly by evening sweeping, viz : 

 Anisotoma parvula, Sahib., Ci/rtuf^a pauxilln, Schmidt, Hydnobius strigosus, 

 Schmidt, Ephisfemus glohoxus, Waltl, AntheropJiagus pallens, Gryll., Telephorus 

 figuratus, v. scoticus, Sharp, and Liosoma oblongulum, Boh. Ergx afer, F., was 

 taken in July from a hollow ash tree, and BaJnninii/t betulx, Steph., a few days ago 

 crawling on the breakfast table.— Noeman H. Jot, Bradfield : August 1th, 1905. 



Osphya bipunctata, F., near Peterhorovgh. — On May 19th, 1905, I captured 

 a fine Heteromerous beetle, which I took for a variety of Nacerdes melanura, 

 though without the black tip to the elytra ; but having referred it to Mr. W. 

 Holland, that gentleman greatly gratified me by returning it as a very large 

 example of the female of Osphya bipunctata, F.— C. T. Cruttwell, Ewelme 

 Rectory, Wallingford : July 2Qth, 1905. 



Notes of Coleoptera captured during a tour through Sutherland shire and at 

 Aviemore, Invernesfi-shire, in the month of June, 1905.— The species, among many 

 others, kindly verified for me by Mr. W. Holland, are from Sutherlandshire, unless 

 otherwise noted. Cicindela campestris (not uncommon), Elaphrus uliginonis, 

 Nebria gyllenhalii, Amara lucida, Calathus Jiavipes, C. mollis, C. melanoce- 

 phalus, var. nubigena (Aviemore), C. micropterus, Pterodichus versicolor (dark 

 form), P. vitreus, Bembidium bipunctatiim, B. fuviatile, var. (Aviemore), B. tibiale, 

 B. saxatile (dark form, Aviemore), B. atrocoeruleum (Aviemore), B. paludosum 

 (Aviemore). 



Among Staphylinidas I saw at Aviemore, but somehow lost, a specimen of 

 Staphylinus erythropterus ; Philonthus sanguinolentus (dark form, Aviemore), Stenus 

 guttula and S.cicindeloides (A.\iemore), Anthophagustestaceus, Oeodromicus globuli- 

 colUs (Aviemore), Parnus auriculatus (Aviemore), Cytilus varius, Coccinella oblongo- 

 guttata (Aviemore), C. W-punctata, var. confluens, Geotrupes putridarius (very 

 small), Aphodius depressus, A. foetidus, Roplia philanthus in profusion on June 4th, 

 Cryptohypnus mar itimus and C. dermestoides (both at Aviemore), Corymhites cupreus , 

 C. quercds, with var. ochropterus (Aviemore), Podabrits alpimts, Telepliorus nigri- 



