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Additio7is to the Isle of Wight and Woolwich Lists of Coleoptcra — It may be 

 of interest to note in this Magazine the eaptiu-e of two additional species of 

 Coleoptera to the Isle of Wight List, viz., Galenicella calmariensis, taken by 

 Mr. John Taylor and myself at Alverstone, also a specimen of Tachyusa 

 umbratica on a wall at Sandown. I have also taken two species new to the local 

 list as given in " Woolwich Surveys," which covers most of this neighbourhood. 

 They are Bhynchites nanus, common by sweeping birch, Hayes, May 21st, and 

 Telcphorus (Rhagonycha) testacca, one bred from larvae taken on Hayes Common. 

 — Stanley A. Blenkarn, Norham, Cromwell Road, Beckenham : June 11th, 1911. 



Barypithes pellucidus. Boh., in the Oxford District. — I took a considerable 

 number of this interesting weevil on the afternoon of Jime 1st, by sweeping 

 short soft grass under some pine trees at Hen Wood, Berks., about three 

 miles south-west of Oxford. It was exceedingly local, being apparently confined 

 to a space not more than twenty yards square, beyond which only a single 

 specimen (the first one taken) was foimd ; and it was evidently bred on the 

 spot, as all were beautifully fresh, some retaining their deciduous mandibles, 

 and a good many being pallid and immature. These specimens agree in all 

 respects with some kindly sent me as B. pellucidus by my friend Mr. J, H. Keys 

 from Ivybridge, Devon {ante, p. 131), and with others taken at Enfield, received 

 from Mr. C. J. C. Pool. B. pellucidus* is an addition to the Berkshire County 

 list of Coleoptera. 



I have examined the specimens of the insect taken by Mr. Pelerin at 

 Tottenham, (on which B. pellucidus was intioduced as British) in the collections 

 of the Natural History Museiun and of Mr. G. C. Champion, and find they are 

 identical with those brought forward under that name by Mr. Keys ; in both 

 collections there are examples taken by the Eev. H. S. Grorham at Eastry, which 

 are undoubtedly conspecific with those obtained by the Eev. T. W. Wood at 

 Broadstairs, and by myself at the Blean Woods, Kent {ante, p. 130) and 

 described by Mr. Keys as B. dupUcatus. It would thus appear that the last 

 mentioned insect is a very local species, as yet only recorded as British from 

 East Kent. — James J. Walker, Oxford: June 10th, 1911. 



Immigrant Insects in the Isle of Sheppey. — This evening I noticed the first 

 immigrant specimens of Pymmeis cardui of the year on the Sheppey cliffs. 

 Plusia gamma, in worn and faded condition, has been plentiful during the past 

 week in meadows and on the grassy sea-walls, but at Oxford it was observed as 

 early as May 28th. On June 13th, I took a 9 specimen of the somewhat 

 unconunon dragon-fly, Brachytron pratense (kindly named for me by Mr. A. H. 

 Hamm), on the sea-wall between Harty and Shellness. I am inclined to believe 

 that this is also an immigrant, the worn state of its wings indicating that it had 

 travelled a long distance, and its flight being so feeble that I had no difficulty 

 in catching it with my sweeping-net ; moreover, it is one of the last species one 

 would expect to find in the Isle of Slieppey, where the larger di-agon-flies are as 

 a rule very rare.— Id., Sheerness: June 17th, 1911, 



