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of iiiterroKMlion was reproduced in all tlic Britisli catalogues of the lime, and also 

 in tliat of Fowler and Matthews (1883). As mentioned bj' Canon Fowler (Brit- 

 Col. II, 209) the species does not occur in France or the Netherlands. It is thus 

 a very unlikelj" insect to occur in Britain. — E. A. Newbebt, 12, Churchill Road, 

 Dartmouth Park, N.W. : November 9(h, 19U5. 



Oxytelus fulvipe.i, Er., in Sherwood Forest. — In May of the present year, I 

 took two specimens of this local species ; they were found in very damp rotten saw- 

 dust beneath a small yellow fungus. This is, I believe, a species hitherto un- 

 recorded from Sherwood. I am indebted to my friend Mr. E. A. Ncwbery for its 

 verification.— J. Kidson Taylor, 35, South Avenue, Buxton : October ^Ist, 1905. 



Captures of Coleoptera. — During the past season I have had scarcely any 

 opportunities for collecting ; but I find that the following captures, made for the 

 most part in previous years, have not hitherto been recorded : Fhilonthus fucicola, 

 Cleonus sulcirodris, and Chrysomela goettlngensis, Lyme Regis — the latter strolling 

 casually about the roads ; Platystethas nitens, Dulwich ; Amara curta and Sa- 

 prinus metalUcus, Deal ; Malachiua rujicollls, Erith ; Cistela atra, Tooting 

 Common ; Onoomera femorata, in some numbers, clinging to the lower surface of 

 big stones in a small hollow near Niton, Isle of Wight, while one specimen came to 

 light ; Nacerdes melanura, on the platforms of Clapham Junction and Wands- 

 worth Common Stations, having evidently travelled up from the coast by train ; 

 Longitarsus agilis, a single specimen at Baldock, Herts, by sweeping. Elater san- 

 guinolentus seems to have been uiiusu lUy common in the New Forest during the past 

 summer, as a Lepidopterist friend brought back quite a large number which he had 

 beaten out of furze bushes. Lgctus hrunneus still continues to breed in the 

 drawing-room table of a house near here in which it was first taken in 1896 

 (c/. Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxii, 259) ; Cls bilamellatus has been multiplying freely in my 

 own study from specimens captured at West Wickham fourteen months ago. — 

 Theodoeb Wood, The Vicarage, Lyford Road, Wandsworth Common, S.W. : 

 October Wth, 1905. 



Bledius femoralis, Gyll., near Wellington College.— On September 19th, in 

 company with Dr. Joy, I went to look for Bledius femoralis near Wellington 

 College, and we found about thirty specimens ; it seems to be well established along 

 one side of a shallow lake, which appears, however, to be of comparatively modern 

 construction. It is probable, however, that the ground has been more or less 

 marshy from time immemorial ; the casts of the Bledius are sometimes very 

 difficult to find, but when found, are rarely empty, unless occupied by the larva or 

 imago of a Dyschirius which I have before referred to, but which I have not yet 

 satisfactorily identified. This larva is about 6 mm. in length and is very active ; 

 it is parallel-sided, with the head large and subquadrate, slightly rounded at the 

 sides, smooth, with the anterior furrow not strongly marked ; the pronotum is con- 

 siderably larger than the mesonotum ; the legs and antennae are short, the tibiae 

 and tarsi of the former being of equal length ; the anal process is very short and 

 small, and the cerci long ; the colour is pitchy with the legs partly testaceous. 



