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Bath District. — In the early part of the season, beetles were tolerably 

 abundant at Bath, but many species usually met with were conspicuous 

 by their absence. Beating produced Telephones translucidus and 

 alpinus, Toxotus meridiinif^, Clytus arietis and i/iystiais, Polyopsia 

 prceiista, Ochinci hfderce, Beinbidium quinqucstriatum and many others. 

 Under stones in a water course, Dianous coerukscens was abundant. 

 Carrion baits produced numerous Silphid.'e, representatives of the 

 genus Necrophoi us being especially abundant. The species were 

 N. huinatoi\ ruspator, itiortuorum, intcrruptHS and vespillo. There were 

 also a few specimens of Necrodes littoralis. Among the specimens of 

 Necrophorus ruspator, were several that very closely resembled 

 N". interriiptus, the anterior band on the elytra being narrowed and 

 interrupted. At the end of August, I visited Burnham, Somerset ; 

 and, although beetles are usually very abundant there at this period of 

 the year, on this occasion, scarcely any could be found. This applies 

 equally to both terrestrial and aquatic species ; among the latter, I only 

 took a few Hydaticus transversalis in addition to those usually found 

 everywhere. I walked to Brent Knoll to see if the same scarcity 

 extended to a more inland district, but here again the only species 

 not universally common was Amara ovata. On the sandhills by 

 the sea, Cicindela maritima was however common enough, and I 

 noted that an easy way to capture them, was to search the sandhills 

 carefully as many were to be found nearly buried in the sand, and 

 some entirely so, their whereabouts being revealed by a little hole or 

 disturbance in the usually smooth surface of the sand. As I could 

 get almost any number, I looked for varieties, expecting to find some 

 specimens that would resemble hybrida. In this I was disappointed, 

 but I found several decidedly green in colour and one specimen 

 remarkably so, being almost as green as C. campestris. Since my return 

 home, I have taken Amara consuhiris freely. It occurred under weeds 

 in a field of mangolds, in company'vvith onQ.ori\vQA.bifrons?ind.acumifiata. 

 I collected some specimens of Amara ovata, which occurs here in 

 one particular spot near the river, and nearly all the specimens had 

 very light tibire, doubtless owing to immaturity, but it shows that this 

 character cannot be relied upon to determine the species. On the 

 whole, my impression is that the past season has been one of unusual 

 scarcity at least as far as Coleoptera is concerned. — Robert Gillo, 

 Bath. October, 1890. 



Autumn Notes. — Sheffield. — Between the end of September and the 

 end of October, I took, in the Sheffield District, larvK of Eupithccia 

 nanata and E. minutata on heath, E. assimilata on wild hop, E. 

 lariciata on larch ; Phoxopteryx ramana {lactana) in turned-down aspen 

 leaves ; Coleophora laripennella on Clienopodiiim seeds, C. virgaurella 

 on seeds of golden rod ; LtthocoUetis roboris in oak, L. salicicolella in 

 sallow, L. faginella in beech, Z. pomifoliella in wild apple, L. emberize- 

 pennella m honeysuckle ; Cemiostoma scitella in wild apple ; Nepticula 

 aucupariella in mountain ash, N. argyropeza in aspen leaves, I also 

 found mines of N. myrtillella, but I was late for them. — J. Baity, 

 Sheffield. October 2,^st, 1890. 



Is/e of Wight. — This autumn seems to be a very bad one for 

 collecting, especially at ivy-bloom. I have paid half-a-dozen visits to it 



