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Stenopehnus rufinasus Gyll. in Belffium. — Apropos of Mr. O. E. Jansou's 

 recent capture of a specimen of this curious weevil in the Norfolk fens on 

 July 24th last {antea, p. 225), it may be noted that Mons. L. Frennet has just 

 recorded an example from Calnipthout, Belgium, tak'n on May 29th by 

 M. Lestage (Bull. Soc. Ent. Belgique, iii, pp. 137, 138, November 3rd, 1921). 

 It has also been found in Holland by Dr. Everts. — Eds. 



Trichius fasciatus L. in London. — It seems desirable to put on record the 

 occurrence of an example of this beautiful beetle on a flower-head of 

 Heracleum giganteum in the recreation ground adjoining the Nature Study 

 Museum at Stepney in June last. I have the specimen, which was kindly pre- 

 sented to me by the Curator of the Museum, Mr. P. W. Horn. It seems 

 probable that the insect came from some timber at the docks. — C. Nicholson, 

 35 The Avenue, Hale End, E. 4 : October 18th, 1021. 



Hylurgus ligniperda F. and Ips (Tomicus) sexdentatus Born, in Britain. — 

 H. ligniperda was found in pit props in the north of England many years ago, 

 but on April 19th, 1919, I took one alive on the sandhills at Oxwich Bay, and 

 on March 13th, 1920, Dr. Nicholson found another in the same locality. This 

 occurrence in successive years looks as if the beetle was established in the 

 neighbourhood. In this connection it may be interesting to note that Ips 

 {Tomicus) sexdentatus, which was captured by me in abundance in the Clyne 

 Woods near Swansea, in 1919, under bark of felled Pinus austriacn, lias now 

 turned up in standing trees of Pinus 7naritima nt Oxwich Bay. Mr. Wakeheld 

 reported it in great numbers in October last, and from an intimate knowledge 

 of the locality can state that the trees have only been attacked quite recently. 

 It may be remembered that these two species, as well as Ips {Tomicus) erosus 

 WolL, were recorded by Mr. C. Bartlett, in the present volume of this Maga- 

 zine {ante, p. 15), as having been taken in drift pine-logs washed up at Morte- 

 hoe, N. Devon. — J. R. le B. Tomlin: November \2th, 1921. 



Sirexj'uvencHS in Yorkshire. — On Sept. 28th a local chemist handed to me 

 a pill-box containing a number of insects of different orders, which he had 

 taken out of his window. Amongst the usual common insects was a small 

 female Sir ex juvencus, not more than one half the size of the three specimens 

 previously recorded from Yorkshire, all of which I have seeh. It is difficult to 

 say how it got into the place where it was found ; it must have entered the 

 shop from the street. Possibly there is some attraction about a chemist's 

 shop, for one of the earliest records for this locality, of ^. gigas, is also from a 

 chemist's shop in what was then a country village, and dates back to 1830. — 

 E. G. Baypord, Barusley : November 1921. 



Euryproctus{Hypamh1ys) huccatus Rolmgr.at Carlinyford. — When stopping 

 at Carlingford, in County Louth, in June last, I was fortunate enough to take 

 a specimen of this Ichneumon fly. I captured it along a field-path which runs 

 by the edge of a field, on June 7th. This specimen is a male, that which I 



