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LoHi/icornin, etc., in the lleadin;/ district. — I^ast niouLh I gave some imtes, 

 whicli I liad obtained fi'oni Mr. W. Holland, on some of the Lepidoptcra of 

 the Keadinji- district; I now add a few further notes on some of the C'oleo])tero. 

 Last year (1919) he obtained the following hougicornti :— Mesosa Jiubila (ihh 

 is an interesting ca])ture, as Stephens recorded it from Windsor), Aycq^antliia 

 liueatvcollis, Tetrops pnieusta, Leptura Hvida, Clytus arietia and mysticus, Cal- 

 lidiuiii aim and violaceii/n, Moh'rchus minor, Asennini striatum, Stranyutia 

 armata and melanuru, 'Gramtnoptera mjicornis and tabacicolor, Saperda 

 populnea, Leiopus nebulosus, Phyniatodes lividas, Hhayinvi bifasciatum, and 

 Toxotus tnevidianus ; to these may be added Criocephalus ferus, taken in pine- 

 stumps in numbers by Mr. Tomlin, myself, and others near Wellington College. 

 Mr. Holland ha.s also taken the following : — Trox sabulosus, Cistela ceramtioides 

 (on a tree by the Kenuet), C'oeliodes erythroJeiicus (Mortimer), Codes helojnoides, 

 Grypidius equiseti, Amara patricia {WdeYiuaaion), L'rachytai'siis varius, C'ei/t/ior- 

 rhynchidiusbanieiillei {chevr^dati), Veuthurrhynchusliirtiiliis,lt]tynchitespa'itxiliHs 

 and uncinatus, and Longitarsus atriceps. Opatrum sabulosmn has occurred for 

 many years in a chalk pit at Caversham, Reading ; I know of no other record so 

 fiirinla.nd for this coast beetle. — \V. W. Fowlek, Reading : March Ibth, 1920. 



Coleoptera ot liannoch. — I spent the first fortnight of July I'OlO at 

 Kinloch Ranuoch, Perthshire, and a few notes about some of the Coleoptera 

 found there may be of interest. Looking back, one's chief recollection is ot 

 six days of cold weather, followed by a week of blazing .f-ummer, with long 

 tramps over motor-scarred roads strewn with small stones, which, despite 

 thick-soled boots, made walking partake rather of the nature of penance than 

 of pleasure. In those hot days, by the kind permission of the head gardener 

 at on6 of the large mansions which stand on the south side of the loch, I 

 managed to secure a nice series of Cetunia fioricola Herbst and Trichius 

 fasciatus L. on roses and other flowers in the extensive gcardens, and both 

 these insects were also obtained on thistles near the Dall Sawmill. As illus- 

 trating the vagaries of our climate, I may mention that this gardener told nie 

 that his thermometer had registered 34- during the night of July 8th, and on 

 the 9th, when I was capturing the Cetonius, it stood at 82" in the shade. 

 After several days' search, and beating dozens of alders, I was rewarded by a 

 very line Saperda scalaris L., and from the same tree immediately afterwards 

 I beat Leiopus nebulusus L., of dark black ground-colour with the usual white 

 markings. Another lucky " take " was Ancistronycha cMominalis F., which 

 I caught flying over some bracken, but this wa-* the only specimen obtained. 

 Amongst the ''Staphs" may be mentioned Alcochara nilidu var. bilineatu 

 Gyll., Stenus yuynemeri Duv., Gyrophaena affinis Mann., Gymnusa brevicolbs 

 Pk., Staphylinus stercorarius 01., and Huvialium vile var. heeri Ileer. A day 

 Avas spent amongst the solitudes of Cross Craig in search of Athous undulcdus 

 l)e G., but the old birch-stumps would not yield any Elaters except a single 

 E. niyrinus Pk., and, with the exception of this and a few Cis jctcquemarti 

 Mell. and C. lincatocribratus MelL, the day appeared likely to prove a blank, 

 until near its close I found a fungoid bit of lir which yielded a series of 

 Hallomenus humeralis Pz., one Orchesia micnns Pz., and six Epuraen silacea 

 Hbst., and my last " take " at Rannoch was three specimens of E. parimla 

 Stm. The other guests at the hotel appeared to be much interested in my 



