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Scraptiafuscula, taken from uiuler tlie bark of a large old oak log. A short 

 visit to the same log at the end of February produced many remains of, and a 

 few living, Melasis buprestoides, also six Cis hilamellattis. I think tliis is the 

 furthest north the latter species has occurred. A very little collecting in this 

 neighbourhood has been done. The best species found are, Enttda srhainni, 

 from a cellar ; plenty of Platypus ci/lindrus and three Laemopliloeus duplicnfus. — 

 Norman II, Joy, Theale, Bev]is.— March IIM, 1921. 



Coleo2)tera on the Sandhills at Galla)ie, Firth of Forth. — On ^Nlay 8th hist, 

 a magnificently hot, still day, in company with Mr. Black, 1 paid a \ i.sii to the 

 extensive sandhills near Gnllane on the Firth of Forth, a place I have frequt^ntly 

 visited with somewhat indiflerent results, but, on this occasion, we must have 

 just struck the period when the beetle fauna of these sandliills was at its best, 

 as the following records will testify : — Cleonus sulcirostris L., was in the utmost 

 profusion — there must have been hundreds of specimens crawling about on the 

 bare sand, yet, on previous visits, 1 have never seen mure than one or two 

 examples; about equally common was Pachylupus maritimus Steph., wiiicb 

 was flying about as well as crawling on the bare sandy slopes ; though I have 

 often searched for it on this very spot, this was the first occasion it has turned 

 up ; Mori/chus ae^ieiis V. was also very common, and Otiorrhijricluis (droaptenis 

 I)e G. iu considerable numbers; these four species almost monopolised ihe 

 area we examined. In a damp hollow between two ranges of sandhills, where 

 there was a pool of rain-wate'" still lying, I found Bledins fnscipes IJye in 

 hundreds, by digging up their burrows, and Bledins op'tcus l^lock very sparingly. 

 We searched for carrion, but could only find one or two desiccated carcasses of 

 rabbits, out of which Ch<deva nigrita Er and Philonthus a(/ilis Gr. were beaten. 

 The actual seashore produced nothing, but the profusioi: of species, normally 

 very rare, was a reward for the day's outing, and .«eenis woitli ]iutting on 

 record. — T. Hudson Beauio, 10 Regeut Terrace, Edinburgh : March ?>rd, 1921. 



Keuraphes sparshalli Denny, etc., at Hawthornden, near Edi)i/>ar(//i.—rOn 

 November 6th last, a fine mild day, I paid a visit to a woudtd bank, near 

 Ilawthornden railway station, where, by cutting grass tufts and shaking them 

 over paper, I have on previous visits found manj^ good sptcie'=, several new to 

 the Scottish fauna, and I have never on any visit failed to turn up something 

 n^■w to the fauna of this very prolific bank. On this occa-^icjii, the most 

 interesting capture was five specimens of Nenraphes sjmrshalli Denny, all 

 shaken out of one rather dry tuft, at the foot of which was a deserted field 

 mouse's nest, well tenanted with flnas. The other species taKeii were Xcinaphrs 

 an(/ulatics Miill. (first met with in Scothmd by me at this bank sever.il yt-ars 

 ago); Scydmaemis coUaris Miill.; Bi/fhinus jyunctirollis Denny; Afomana 

 apicalis F^r. ; Atoniaria fuscata Sch. ; Cholera ani.fofoinoides Spence ; Crypt< - 

 phar/us sefulosus Stm. ; C'lypfo/ihai/ns jwbescensfitm. : S]i)d(>niium aeneinn Miill. : 

 Encephalus complicans ^^'estw. ; Hypocyptus semiuidum Er. ; and many other 

 common and widely distributed forms. I paid another visit on November 13lh, 

 but, unfortunately, a heavy hail and rainstorm put an abrupt end to the 

 collecting, and I was unable to get ar,y more A\ snarshalli in tlie short time 

 I wa'^ able to collect before my work was put iiii ei;d to. — T. IIi'dson Bkaue. 



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