(58 (March, 



at Poi-tlaud ; Beare, " under a stone over a nest of L. flavus " on the Chesil 

 Beach ; EUiiuan, " with Formica fusca, and L. flavus " at Chesham, Bucks ; 

 Donuian, " every year since 1905, at Ditchling, generally with L. flavus, or a 

 sjiecies of Myrmica." He has found one or two away from ants, these no doubt 

 were seeking a new nest. 



Mr. Collins was good enoiigli to take me to the sand-iDit at Cumnor, near 

 Oxford, where he had fotind this beetle, and I was fortunate enough to capture 

 a specimen. I think the finding of J.mdrkeli in a sand-pit away from ants, 

 only means that it has fallen in. I did, it is true, find an ant's nest tmder a 

 stone above the sand-pit, and the beetles might easily have come from the 

 place. In any care, I think this insect can only be regarded as a true myrme- 

 cophilous species. — Horace Donisthorpe, 58, Kensington Mansions, S.W. : 

 December, 1910. 



Mycetophagus quadriguttatus, Milll.,in Scotland. — In a stable here, amongst 

 the waste grain from the horses' mangers, Mycetophagiis quadriguttatus occurs 

 in profusion. How long the species has been established there it is impossible 

 to say, but I first observed it some three years ago wlien I began collecting 

 Coleoptera. It is to be f ovuid all the year round, though in less abundance during 

 the winter months. Mr. Anderson Fergusson, of Glasgow, informs me that the 

 beetle has not been recorded for Scotland, so that I now have the pleasure of 

 doing so. The following species have been taken in company with it : — Enicmus 

 minutus, L., Cryptojjhagus dentatus, Hbst,, and bicolor, Stm., Atomana 7iigri- 

 pennis, Pk., Ptinus tectus, Boield., Niptus crenatus, F., Tenebrio ohscurus, F., 

 Alphitobius piceus, 01., GnatJiocerus cornutus, F., and Anthicus floralis, L. — 

 George A. Brown, Sunnyside Eoad, Coatbridge : January 5th, 1911. 



Helophorus tuherculatus, Gyll., near Coatbridge, N.B. — Two specimens of 

 this rare species of Helophorus were taken here last July. They occurred in bare 

 patches of moorland which, except during very dry weather, are saturated with 

 water and very soft. No permanent water, either stagnant or running, occurs 

 within several hundred yards of the place of captui-e. On the Continent the 

 species is said to occvir on peaty ground, and this record is in agreement with 

 that statement. — Id, : January 6th, 1911. 



Xenopsylla cheopis, Rothsch., in London. — Two specimens of this flea, which 

 is associated witli the spread of plague in India, were captured on Brown Eats, 

 Jlfus norvegicus, on February 3rd and 7th of this year, in Guy's Hospital, by 

 Dr. Boycott. As far as we know only one other example of this insect has been 

 taken in this coimtry. Cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., ser. ii, vol. xiv, p. 85 (1903).— 

 N. Charles Eothschild, Arundel House, Kensington Palace Gardens, W. 



Ellampus truncatus, Dhb., in the London district. — On July 2nd last year 

 (1910) I took in the garden here at Heme Hill a specimen of the above 

 uncommon Chrysid. Mr. Morice kindly confirmed the determination I made 

 from his Synoptic Table. — Eupert Stenton, Southwell, Notts.: Jan. nth, 1911. 



