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Pof/onochaerus bidmtattis T/ionts. in Perthshire. — On liis return from a few 

 days at Rannoch last month, Mr. K. J. Morton kindly gave me some beetles 

 he and Mr. M. E. Moseley had collected there. Among these I was pleased to 

 see a Pogonochaertts, which on examination proved to be P. bidentatus Thoms. 

 It was taken on June 22ud near Kiuloch, IJannocli, but Mr. Morton cannot be 

 sure what tree or bush it was on, though he thinks it probably came off birch 

 or alder. In Sharp's " Coleoptera of Scotland," published in the Scottish 

 Naturalist over forty years ago, this pretty little Lougicorn is given as having 

 occurred in the Forth and Moray areas only, with the remark, " very rare, if 

 indigenous." I am not aware of any more recent occurrence in Scotland. 

 The Forth record is no doubt the Roslin one given in Murray's 1853 Catalogue. 

 The species may, I think, safely be regarded as indigenous, though certainly 

 rare, in Scotland. — William Evans, Edinburgh : July Vith, 19:^2. 



Phmomacer attelahoides in JJorset.—Jie^en-iug to Commander Walker's 

 notice of this species in the Xew Forest (ante, p. 190), it may be of interest to 

 add that it is now to be found in Dorset, as I have come across isolated speci- 

 mens in Cranborne Chase, by sweeping, during the last two years. The 

 colouring of the specimens agrees better with those recorded from the Oxford 

 district, than with those from the New Forest.— E. R. Sykes, West Lodge, 

 Iwerne Minster, Blandf ord : August 3i-d, 1922. 



Asemum striatum, etc., at Ilindhead. — Asemum striatum occurred in some 

 numbers at Plindhead during the last week in May and the first in June, after 

 which they were scarce. They were among pine logs in that part of the heath 

 which has been purchased by Government for aiforestation, and from which 

 all the standing timber had to be removed before planting could be begun. 

 Thanasimus formicarius was also fairly common in the same situation. 

 Rhagitmi bifasciatum was common, and remarkable for the great variation 

 in the markings. One specimen oi Molorchus minor was taken on the blossom 

 of a small mountain-ash. — Ernest A, Elliott, 41 Chapel Park Road , 

 St. Leonards-on-Sea : August bth, 1922. 



Leptura sanguinolenta at Nethy Bridge, N.B.—^h. T. G. Bishop lias sent 

 me a record of the breeding of two tine female specimens of L. sanguinolenta 

 from larvae taken last year at Nethy Bridge by Mr. F. Gilbert Smith, who 

 has done and is still doing much good work at the life-history of the British 

 Longicorns; the species, which has of late years almost come to be considered 

 as doubtfully British, is apparently well established in the locality, as 

 Mr. Bishop had previously received two or three other specimens, one of 

 which he kindly gave me. Mr. Bishop also records a fine specimen of L. 

 revestita taken in June 1917 by Mr. C. Gulliver in the New Forest ; a speci- 

 men of this insect was taken some years ago iu Harewood Forest, Hants, by 

 Mr. P. Harwood. I am not sure whether this was recorded at the time, but 

 it is worth mentioning again, as showing that several of the old records on 

 which doubt has at times been thrown, are correct. Leptura rubra has been 

 again taken this year by Mr. H, J. Thouless near Norwich ; the dissimilarity 

 of the sexes is very remarkable iu this fine species ; we are very glad to hear 

 that it is still in its old locality, as Mr. Thouless was afraid that it was being 



