1905.] 235 



[M. Bedel, to wliom I jim inclebted for speeimcns of both sexes, lias recently 

 found this species in abundance at Itteviile (Seine-et-Oise), France, at the end of 

 May, upon small rusiies : cf. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1905, p. 176. — G. C. C] 



Coleoptera in the Neio Forest, Sfc. — In the New Forest, from April 23rd to 

 28th, I met with the following : — Elater lythropterus, in numbers, beech logs ; E. 

 pomonse, in small oak logs on ground (9) ; TS. elongatulus (1) ; 3Iesosa nubila (6), 

 with E. pomonse ; Cqrtotriplax hipustuJata, in fungoid growth on fallen logs. In the 

 same locality, on June 12th, 13th, and 14th, a friend, Mr. G. F. Zimmer, obtained, 

 chiefly by beating hawthorn bloom already going over and turning brown, sixteen 

 species of Longicornes, including CalUdimn alni (1), C. varidbile (1), C. violaceum 

 (2), G rammoptera prxusta,^ . (1), Clytus mysticus (1&), and var. hieroglyphica, Hbst. 

 (1), Mesosa nubila (3), Leptura sctitellata (2), Polgopsia prxusta (4), also Ischno- 

 mera caerulea (2) and /. sanguinicoUis (1). 



In September, on the banks of the Wye near Ross I took a fine series of 

 Opilo mollis from a dead willow.* — G-tty S. Whitaker, 116, Trinity Road, S.W. : 

 September, 1905. 



Recent Captures of Coleoptera.— Phi/tnsus nigriventris, Chev. I took two or 

 three examples of this species on the sandhills at the moufh of Poole Harbour, in 

 April, in company with P. balticus, Kr. 



Qnorimus nohilif!, L. I took three examples of this in June on the flower 

 heads of a large Umbellifer at Mathow, in Ilerefoi-dshire, and saw others on the 

 wing. 



Ceuthorrhijnchus viduatus, Gyll. One specimen, by sweeping on banks of river 

 at Upton-on-Severn, in July. Bembidium adustum, Schaum, was extremely plenti- 

 ful on the same date.— J. R. le B. Tomlin, Chester: August, 1905. 



Myelophila crihrella on the Kentish Rag, near Ashford. — I have always 

 associated this insect with the Thames littoral, and records of its occurrence else- 

 where seem very few. 



The capture of a specimen in July, 1904, on Hothfield Common, some three 

 miles to the west of this town, came as a surprise to me, and set me hunting for the 

 larva this last spring, when it was not only found there, but in several places to the 

 east and south of the town — indeed, in almost any waste place on drift sand where 

 the common spear thistles, Cniciis lanceolatus, were left undisturbed {Onopordon 

 acanthium, which is said to be its usual food plant does not seem to occur here). 

 The furthest locality to the west yet examined was near Lenham, about eleven 

 miles off, where it occurred freely, so that one cannot help thinking it might be 

 found in similar places further up the county, or even into Surrey. The publication 

 of this note may lead to its turning up in other inland districts where it may be as 



* This insect was found in the old holes of Lyctus canalicuhUus (?), which is interesting in 

 reference to Mr. Champion's note on my capture of Turtostenus umviitatus (Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 vol. xxxvii, p. 300). 



