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Ccelambus novemlineatuK, Sfeph., in Berkshire. — On paying a visit to the 

 Wellington College district last October, Mr. P. Harwood and I found that one of 

 the large meres had very recently been drained, and that the puddles still remaining 

 contained a sort of concentrated essence of water-beetles, Ki/droporus Havipes 

 was in hundreds, and many other things, including Sidessus gsminus, Berosus 

 affinis, and B. signaticoUis, were not uncommon ; but to our great surprise the 

 so-called northern species, Caelambu.i novemlineatus, Steph., was one of the com- 

 monest of the lot, and continued to occur freely throughout October and November. 

 This seems to lend confirmation to the Stephensian record of " Weyhill near 

 Andover," which has generally been considered a somewhat doubtful one. -- 

 J. R. LE B. ToMLiN, Reading : December \2th, 1908. 



Ceitthorrhgnchiis pilofiellun, Gyll. —I am able to add two fresh localities for this 

 rare weevil from this season's collecting, viz., Gwithian on the Cornisli coast, where 

 it occurred last April, and Streatley, where I swept a specimen in October. —Id. 



Scydmxnus poioeri, Fowler, in Cornwall. — The recorded occurrences of tliis 

 species are so few that I think it well to report the capture of a specimen on the 

 sandhills at Perranporth at the end of April last.— Id. 



Phloeophilus edwardsi, Steph., in the south of Scotland. — Prof. Hudson Beare's 

 note in the December number of this Magazine, recording this beetle from Nethy 

 Bridge, induces me to put on record a specimen which I beat out of dead fir branches 

 near Gifford, Haddingtonshire, on March I2th, 190-i. Although no Scottisii habitat 

 is mentioned in Fowler's " Coleoptera of the British Isles," the species was reported 

 many years ago from the south of Scotland, namely, from near Linlithgow (Forth) 

 atid Raehills (Solway), cf. the Catalogues of Murray and Sliarp. — William Evans, 

 38, Morningside Park, Edinburgh : December Ath, 1908. 



Arseocerus fascicidatus, De Geer,in Scotland. — The article by Mr. F. H. Day, 

 in the December number of this Magazine, on the occurrence of this foreign beetle 

 in Eng'and, reminds me that I possess a specimen which was captured in the Her- 

 barium at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in June 1895, as recorded in my 

 paper on Scottish Coleoptera, in Annals of Scottish Nat. Hist., 1900, p. 93. — Id. 



Lytta vesicaioria, L., at Wareham. — On the principle of " better late than 

 never," I should like to record the capture of a specimen of Lytta vesicatoria, the 

 " blister beetle," at Wareham, East Dorset, in June or July, 1877, by the late 

 Dr. W. Boreham, who was then a resident in that town. Knowing that I was 

 interested in entomology, Dr. Boreham kindly gave me the individual in question. 

 The only other capture of this uncommon species in tlie county of Dorset that I am 

 aware of, is the one recorded by the late Mr. C. W. Dale [Lep. Dors. (App.), p. 71 

 (1886)] \n the ioWovimg viovAs :—" Cantharis vesicatoria, Linn., G. [i.e.. Eastern 

 Division. — E. R. B.] Wimborne, by Dr. Knott." — Eustace R. Bankes, Norden, 

 Corfe Castle : November lith, 1908. 



Note on the food-plants, in Britain, of Parasia neuropterella, Z. — In Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. Lond., p. vii, it is recorded that at the meeting of the Society held on 



