214 [September, 



near New Park Enclosure in the New Forest on A.up;ust 9th, 1908, 

 " hovering over the nest of Formica rufa, every now and then descend- 

 ing on to the back of an ant and resuming its hovering flight." 



The hovering habit of all these myruiecophagous Braconids is 

 noteworthy. 



Monks Soliam House, Suffolk : 

 May I5th, 1909. 



Bembidium quadripustulatuin, Dej., in Sussex. — In May of tliis year I took 

 two specimens of Bembidium quadripustulatuin, Dej., in a swampy place by the 

 side of some running water in a small wood near Pulboroui^h, Sussex. This is, 

 I believe, a new locality for the insect. — G. W. Nicholson, University College 

 Hospital, London : July 2\)t/i, 1909. 



Note on Omaliiim brevicolle, Th. — With regard lo the name of this species 

 recently introduced by Dr. Joy, and queried by me in a recent number of this Magazine 

 (anteCij, p. 135), I have received a note from Dr. Bergroth pointing out that Herr 

 Luze has recently revised ihe Palsearctic Omaliidw, and states that, having examined 

 authentic specimens of O. foraminosum he finds Ihey are different from O. brevi- 

 colle, and our North European species should therefore bear the latter name. — 



D. Shakp, Brockenhurst : August 'Srd, 1909. 



Molorchus minor near Royston. — Mr. Newill's note in the August number of 

 the Ent. Mo. Mag. on the occurrence of Molorchus minor in Surrey is particularly 

 interesting to me, as on the same day on which he made his capture, viz., Whit 

 Monday, I had the good fortune to take four specimens of the same beetle on 

 hawthorn blossom at the margin of a wood near Royston. Royston itself is on the 

 borders of Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire, but the wood in question is situated 

 on the Hertfordshire side of the town. Two years ago also I took a single specimen 

 of this insect in the same way about a mile from where it occurred this year. — 



E. A. BUTLEE, 56, Gecile Park, Crouch End, N. : August, 1909. 



\_M. minor, as is well known, attacks Conifers, and it was once found in some 

 numbers by Mr. R. W. Lloyd and myself at Mickleham, emerging from the branches 

 of a fallen spruce-fir, many of the specimens, of course, being out of reach. It 

 frequents ilowers, especially hawthorn, in the immediate vicinity of the tree in 

 which it passed its earlier stages. I believe it is always attached to spruce-fir, and 

 in the South of England the insect may be expected to occur in places where this 

 tree is planted.— G. C. C] 



Telephorus darwinianus, Sharp, on the banks of the Medway. — While going 

 over my father's Telephoridx, with a view to cleaning and recarding them, I picked 

 out from his series of T. llturatus seven specimens which should be referred to 



