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cracks of fir bark," on comparative!}' fresh stumps ; I have also found it 

 under fresh pine log's, and have once or twice seen it on newly-barked 

 felled pines in the open, in company with Tetropium gahrieli. 



These captures, however, certainly bear but a very small proportion to 

 the numbers of the insect actually existing- in the Forest, Avhere, for the 

 last two or three years at any rate, it must have been by far the most 

 abundant Longicorn, if not one of the commonest beetles there. The general 

 felling of the pine plantations during the Great War provided ideal conditions 

 for its multiplication in the vast number of stumps left in the ground, and in 

 the enclosures, more particularly those between Ramnor and Denny. It is 

 difficult at present to find a stump which does not bear evidence of the former 

 presence oi Ase))iuvi in the greater or the lesser number of the unmistakable oval 

 emergence-holes of the beetle. In one stump near Bank, not more than eight 

 inclies in diameter, I counted no fewer than 97 of these holes, all apparently ot 

 the same date. Probably with the cessation of felliug in 1918, the beetle is now 

 less abundant than was the case a year or two previously, but it may still be 

 taken with certainty early in June wherever a sufficiently fresh pine stump can 

 be found. 



A.seinuin has also reached the Oxford district, as the stumps of some well- 

 grown Scots tirs near Tubney, cut down in 1917, now present abundance of 

 exit-holes, though tlii' perfect insect was missed at the time of emergence, and 

 has not as yet been captured here. 



Another beetle of northern distribution which now appears to be well 

 established in the New Forest is Hhinoiuacer (tttelaboidcs. I beat the first 

 specimen off an isolated Scots pine on Butt's Lawn on May 26th. 1916, 

 Dr. Sharp at the time remarking that " it was new to the Furest."' Odd 

 examples were found in subst-quent seasons, but in June of the present year it 

 occurred to me in numbers near Bank, on the needles of some pines which had 

 been slightly scorclied by a recent tire. This species has, however, been found 

 in recent years in a good many southei n localities, including the Oxford district, 

 where it has occurred at intervals very sparingly at Tubney since 1907. These 

 Oxford specimens are all of a warm yeliowish-brown tint, contrasting strongly 

 with the greenish-grey form taken in ihe Xew Forest (cf. E. A. AVaterhouse, 

 Erit. Mo. Mag., vol. viii, p. 38). 



Hylaste^ atteniiafus is now one of the commonest of the Forest Scolyttdce ; 

 I found it in great numbers in and about some piles of newly-sawn fir timber 

 near thefamotis " Knightwood Oak.'" It has even reached Oxford, as I tooli a 

 specimen by sweeping close to my house on May 26th, and two more at Wood 

 Eaton on the 29th ; no pine-trees of any kind being near at hand in either 

 case. — James J. Wai.kib, Oxford : Jtdy 17th, 1922. 



Deliphrmn crenatum Gruv. in Midlothhm. — Referring to Mr. James Black's 

 note in the Eut. Mo. Mag. for December 1917, recording the occurrence of 

 this beetle in Peebles-shire, I am now able to state that it occurs also in the 

 adjoining county of Midlothian. On April 12tli last, I found several uuder the 

 bark of a dead beech lying on the ground in a wood close to Penicuik in 

 the south-western section of the county. It turned up again on April 18th, 



