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almost out. of the question. We ought certainly to bo spared such Celtic-looking 

 words as" Cwfd," quoted by Mr. Champion. —Malcolm Bttrr, Eastry, S.O., Kent : 

 January '.}rd, 1909. 



Additional localities for Oxt/poda perplexa, Muls. tf Rei/, O. sericea, Heer, (.^c. 

 — Oxf/poda perplexa, Muls. & Key* (? = lurida, WoU.) : this is the insect recorded 

 by Rye, myself and others from the sand pit at Shirley, Surrey, under tlie name O. 

 exolela, Er., and it also occurs at Gravesend, Sheerne?s, Weymouth, &c. ; Gangl- 

 bauer gives O. verecitnda, Sharp, as synonymous with Erichson's species. O. sericea, 

 Heer : to the locality Dulwich Woodf may be added Woking, Guildford, Frenshani, 

 and banks of the Thames at Putney, Surrey. (O. nigrina, Waterh., certainly looks 

 distinct from O. sericea, but I am unable to separate them satisfactorily when a long 

 series is compared ; the former oec irred liera during the past summer in company 

 with O. tanbrata, Gyll., O. pectila. Sharp, and O. sericea). Homalota sttbglabra. 

 Sharp : Tilgate, August 7th, 1876, one very small example ; not given from south 

 of Leicester by Fowler. H. indubia. Sharp : Christchurch. H. ravilla, Er. : 

 Guildford, three specimens, in a mole's nest, February 8th, 1908. Cryptophagus 

 hirtulus, Kr., and C. pallidus, Sturm : Woking. C. siibdepressus, Gyll. : Aviemore, 

 June, 1874, one very large specimen. Ulicrambe vitlosa, Heer : Darenth Wood 

 and Woking. — G. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking : Januar'4 Ith, 1909. 



Coleoptera in Cumberland. — A note on the occurrence of a few of the more 

 notable species of Coleoptera in Cumberland may be of interest. 



Meligethes riduatus, Stm., occurs freely in the flowers of Water Avens, Oeum 

 rivate, L., any extensive patch of this plant usually producing the insect, often in 

 numbers. The var. sestimabilis, Keitt., has also been swept from the same plant. 

 By treading wet moss and also by shaking it over a sheet a number of specimens of 

 Homalota auhei, Bris., gemina, Er., and curtipennis. Slip , were obtained. Qyro- 

 phxna strictula, Er., was bred in large numbers from Dxdalea quercina growing on 

 an oak stump during July and August. 



Thinobius pallidus, Newb., was taken beneath stones on a gravel bed in August 

 and September, 1907 and 1908, the first pair occurring on August 8th, 1907. This 

 beetle has not occurred in spring as stated by Mr. Newbery, he having made a 

 mistake in the dates on the cards of specimens submitted to him ; he wishes this 

 coi-rection to be made to his former note. Thinolnus linearis, Kr., occurs beneath 

 similar stones, but always during spring and early summer, whilst Homalota sub- 

 tilissima, Kr., and pallens, Redt., occur with both species. Euplectns minutisstmus, 

 Aube, I have only found as yet with T. linearis, Kr. 



Scraptia fuseiila, Miill., one example amongst rotting hay beneath an ash tree, 

 14.8.07. One specimen of Oxypoda exigua, Er., running amongst ants, Myrniica 

 rubra, Linn., beneath a stone, 18.8.07, Wass E'ell. A fine $ Anisotoma triepkei, 

 Schm., by sweeping, 22.8.07. 



I have also taken the whole of the British species of the genus Elmis by 

 sweeping during August ; earlier in the year they are always found on the mossy 

 stones in swiftly running streams from six to eighteen inches in depth, all of them 

 frequently occurring on one stone in the River Eden. 



» Cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., xliv, pp. 51, 52 (1908). 



t Cf. Ent. Record, xvii, p. 67 (1905) ; Proc. Ent. Soc. Loud., 1905, p. v. 



