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advanced atnpe of decay ; and a few weeks ago tlie fall of one of its two pigaiitic 

 limbs rendered the tree so unsafe that it became necessary to fell what remained 

 standing. Unfortunately the huge hollow stump, which measured fully 25 feet 

 in circumference, was burnt out just before I visited it on August 19th. The 

 tree had at one time harboured the largest colony of Cossus lirjniperda that 

 I have ever seen, but this has long been deserted and dried up ; a limited amount 

 of wet rotten wood in one of the great branches produced the rare little Abracus 

 grnnulum* (an addition to the Victoria County History list of Berkshire Co'ro- 

 pterd) in considerable numbers, unaccompanied by its more ordinary congener 

 A. globosus HofFm. The only other beetle met with worth mentioning 

 was Quedius microjys Grav., very sparingly. — James J. Walker, Oxford: 

 September 17th, 1921. 



Eudeotus whitei Sharp at Bannock. — It is with pleasure I have to record the 

 capture of a single example of this rare Staphylinid beetle near the summit of 

 Cross Craig, Rannoch, on July 16th last. I believe only two other British 

 examples of Eudectns are recorded, one of these differing considerably from 

 the type of E. whitei, which was figured some years ago in this Magazine. 

 I am again indebted to Mr. Champion for confirming the identification of thia 

 species. — P. Harwood. 



Phalacrus substriatus Gyll. at Nethy Bridge. — Within about 100 yards of 

 the cottage which we occupy when spending our summer holidays at Nethy 

 Bridge is a low-lying boggy piece of land -where the Bog Asphodel {Nar- 

 thecixmi ossifragum) grows freely ; it is usually, however, so water-logged that 

 it is not possible to work it for insects. The summer of 1919 was in that area 

 of Scotland quite as dry as the present one, and in the month of August 1919 

 I found on my arrival at Nethy Bridge that it was possible to walk all over 

 this boggy area. Mindful of an old record in an earlier volume of this Journal 

 that P. substriatus had been swept freely off the Bog Asphodel, I determined 

 to try my luck. The first sweep produced several specimens, and I con- 

 tinued to take the insect freely as long as the flowers lasted — that is, until quite 

 the end of the mouth. Canon Fowler (Col. British Islands, vol. iii, p. 155) 

 states that only four species of Phalacridae are recorded from Scotland and 

 that these are all local or rare. It is therefore desirable to place on record the 

 occurrence of so uncommon a species as P. substriatus in plenty so far north as 

 Nethy Bridge, the previous Scottish record being "rare, Lowlands, Tweed and 

 Solway distiicts." — T. Hudson Beake, 10 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh : August 

 1921. 



Nebria livida F. at Mundesley, Norfolk. — I have found this local species 

 in considerable numbers at the base of the cliff's here during the present month. 

 It is of course well known to occur on our Eastern coast, and has been recorded 

 from Cromer and Happisburgh, places not far distant from Mundesley. — 

 Lkonaed G. Cox, 90 Marine Parade, Worthing: August I7th, 1921. 



Silpha {Xylodrepa) i-jmttctata near Sheffield. — In extension of Mr. C. 

 Morley's note in this Magazine {anted, p. 154), I can state that this insect has 

 jccurred fairly commonly in several woods to the south of Sheffield during 



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