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Ltflta ve-iicaforia, L. — In the January number of this Magazine, p. 15, 

 Mr. Eustace R. Bankes records two instances of the capture of Li/tta vesicatorln, 

 L , in Dorsetshire ; these two being the only captures, within his knowledge, in 

 the county. T am able to add two other instances, botli many years ago ; one in 

 Morden Park (between Bloxvvorth and Warehani), the other in Bloxworth. Both 

 examples are still in my collection. — O. Pickard-Cambridge, Bloxworth Rectory, 

 Waroham, Dorset : Janiiari/ Isf, 1009. 



Cathormiocenis maritimus, Rye, and other Coleoptera in North Cornwall.— 

 Last August I had some opportunity of collecting in the neighbourhood of Tintagel, 

 North Cornwall, and as there are practically no records for this part of the county, 

 I now give the chief results so far as Coleoptera are concerned, with the intention 

 of treating the Hemi.ptera similai-ly on another occasion. With the exception of 

 a few hours spent at Boscastle and at Camelford, all my work was done within 

 a radius of some three miles from the village of Trevenna, commonly called 

 Tintagel. As in many parts of the coast the sea is in contact with the cliffs at all 

 states of the tide, and in almost all at high tide, there is practically no foreshore, 

 and hence there was but little opportunity of finding any seaweed-haunting species. 



The most interesting find was undoubtedly Cathormiocerus maritimtm, of which 

 I took a single specimen at roots of plantains on the clifPs near Bossiney. This 

 insect has, I believe, not previously been taken elsewhere than at Portsmouth, 

 where it was discovered some thirty-five years ago by Mr. Moncreaff, and of late 

 years no one seems to have met with it. Unfortunately I did not find it till during 

 the last hour of my last expedition, so that there was not much opportunity of 

 searching for more. The same spot yielded also a single Trachyphloeus myrmeco- 

 philus. A very small quantity of seaweed thrown up at Backways Cove yielded 

 Myrmecoj)ora sulcata, Allanta plumhea, Homalium lieviusculuw, a very few Cafius 

 xantholoma and one Cercyon depreasus. Moss in streams and waterfalls yielded 

 Quedius maurorufus and auricomus, Dianous ccerulescenx, and Stenus giiynemeri, all 

 in abundance ; in smaller numbers Laocobius alutaceun and minutus, Henicocerus 

 exsculptus, Ochthebius rufimarginatus, Stenus guttida, and Lesteva punctata, Er., 

 and at Boscastle Orectochilus villoms, Qnypeta cosrulea, and Trogophlceus arcuatus 

 in addition. Hydrsena gracilis and africapilla were the only species of this genus, 

 and they were under stones in streams ; in the same way occurred Elmis aineus, in 

 plenty, and one E. volkmari. 



In moss on a bank at Camelford I got several Neuraphes sparshalli ; moss also 

 produced Bythinus validiis (generally distributed), Neuraphes elongatulus, Bryaxis 

 juncoriim, Conosoma immaculatum , Chrysomela banksi, and Barynotus ohscurus. 

 Corylophus cassidioides occurred at roots of a long, fine grass growing on the face 

 of the cliff at Trebarwith ; amongst rubbish and at roots were also Calyptomerits 

 dubius, Sericoderus lateralis, Otiorrhynchus rugifrons, and Csenopsis waltoni 

 (common). Lathrobium angustatum occurred by the side of streams at Boscastle 

 and Backways Cove ; the latter locality also produced Cassida murrma commonly 

 on Inula dysenterica, Hypera pollux, Ceuthorrhynchus melanost ictus and quadridens, 

 Prasocuris junci, abundant on watercress, Luperus nigrofasciatus, Polydrusus con- 

 Jiuens, Apion scutellare, and Hylastinus obscurus on furze ; and under low plants 



