]{i/!asffx attenuatus Er., aiul niher Coleoptfra in the New Forest. — This 

 di.stiiict little Srolytid, introduced last year by Dr. Sharp as a British species 

 (E. M. M., vol. Ivi, p. 205) appears now to be well established in the New 

 Forest. It was t'oiiiid fairly commonly by me in several widely-separated 

 localities, burrowing- into tlie soft inner bark of fresh stumps of spruce and 

 Scots pine, in company with the conimouer species of the "enus, which in some 

 cases it outnumbered. I also found it under the bark of a large trunk of Scots 

 pine in a timber-yard near Brockenhurst, and occasional specimens turned up in 

 the sweeping-net. Besides the species already noted from the Forest {antea, 

 p. 143), my captures between May 20th and June 9th include single specimens 

 of Eucnemis capunina, Elatev miuiattis, Cistela eeramboides, and Melnndrya 

 barhata walking on decayed beech timber, which becomes in every successive 

 year more difficult to find ; Zemjophora fiavicollis, one, beaten off tall aspens in 

 Matley Bog ; Corticaria fenestralis (common), Ciifptophayus ci/lhidrus (1), 

 Rhhwmacer attelahoides, and Pissodes nofatus by beating Scots pine ; Abdera 

 bifasciata, not uncommon on one oak at the entrance of Queen's Bower, and 

 Geotrupes pyrenaeus on the wing at Mark Ash. The 21 species of Longicornes 

 met with include Mesom nubila, Tetropiuin ftiscum, Asemum striatujn (which 

 has become one of the commonest Forest beetles, its exit-holes being visible in 

 very many of the innumerable pine-stumps), both the southern species of 

 P<H/o7iochr(enis, Leptura sndellata, Ayioplodeva sexgnttata (these two species less 

 common than usual), Gramnioptera praeusta (scarce), Callidiuin abii, etc. 

 From the exceedingly scanty hawthorn-blossom I managed to beat a short 

 series of Ischnomera sangttinicollis, as well as Rhynchites pauxillus, coeruleus, 

 and inter pitnctatus. Athoiis rhombens and its pupa occurred sparingly in 

 decayed beech at Mark Ash and elsewhere; Pediacus dermestoides turned up 

 on several occasions at running sap of a Cossus-oak, at which I found the 

 largest and most finely-developed S Necrodes litturalis that I have ever seen. 

 Several fine fresh specimens of Cleonus nebulosus were met with in the well- 

 known little sand-pit at Matley Passage. Sweeping, probably owing to the 

 prevailing drought, was by no means productive, the best species taken by this 

 method being Anthe?-uph(u/ut pal/ens S , Coryinbites bipustulatus, Dasytes niger 

 (exceedingly local), Mantnra obtusatu, Anopius rohoris, etc. 1 was very sorry to 

 find that the special locality for Tychius quhiquepunctatiis had been practically 

 destroyed as the result of timber-hauling, and not a single example of this 

 pretty weevil was seen during my visit. An excursion to Poole Harbour 

 resulted in the capture of a good series of the usually northern Blediusfuscipes, 

 accompanied by Dyschirivs poli/us, Bevihidiitm pnllidipenne, etc. ; and Gymnusa 

 brevicoUis occ^urred quite commonly by sweeping the herbage in a marshy 

 place.— Jamks J. Walker, Aoran^i, Lonsdale Road, Summertown, Oxford: 

 June 18M, 1921. 



Barin scolopacea Germ, in Sussex. — It seems advisable to record the capture 

 of Baris scolopucea at Bosham, near Chichester, on August 17th last year, as it 

 is a new locality for this very local weevil. I found it, when collecting with 

 Harwood in a salt-marsh, by sweeping its food-plant, the Sea Purslane, Atri- 

 plex portnlacoides. Subsequently Harwood secured a long series, and he has 

 asked me to publish the record. As is well-known, this rare beetle was fir.-.t 

 discovered in Britain by Mr. Champion in 1870, who took it in some numbers 



