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Canon Fowler writes of Q.autundis {UuL Brit. Isles, vol. ii., p. 241): — 

 "Local, London district, not uncommon," and mentions many localities 

 in England, and Scotland rare ; are we to understand that all these records 

 refer to Q. oblitrratus ? We should be much obliged if Mr. Keys will 

 settle this matter for us. We may point out, by the way, that neither 

 Q. ohlitcratiis nor (J. siitiiralis are recorded from Ireland in the "List 

 of the Beetles of Ireland," by Johnson and Halbert, 1902. — Horace 

 DoNisTHORPE, 58, Kensington Mansions, S.W. September lith, 1902. 



DoRCATOMA CHRYSOMELINA, HtURM., ETC., IN LEICESTERSHIRE. 



Whilst on a visit to my friend INIr. Bouskell, at Market Bosworth, in 

 •July last, I took two specimens of Jhirratoina chri/sotiielina out of an 

 old dead birch tree in the park there. Out of the same tree we captured 

 several specimens of Mi/cetoji/tai/us jnccus and I'hloeutri/a stephensi. 

 Both the Ihrratoiua and the Mycetopho(/iis are new to Leicestershire. 

 A visit to Thornton Reservoir produced a nice series of Blethisa nndti- 

 pnnitata ; Ancltowenus picens was plentiful, and Bembidimii obliqmim 

 and Philunthns quisqiuliariiis ab. cliiindiatiin were secured. The Beiii- 

 bidium, which is very common there earlier in the year, was getting 

 over. Luntjitarsus laevis occurred on < 'hrj/saittheiiiiiin hiicantlieiiium in 

 Mr. Bouskell's garden. — Ibid. 



Prionus coriarius AT EsHER. — On August 22nd I took a fine speci- 

 men of Prionus coriarius in the High Street of Esher. This is the 

 first example of this longicorn I have taken here. Is it a new locality 

 for the species '? — Harry Fleet, 7, Park Road, Esher, Surrey. 



Malachius MARCiiNELLus, Ol., IN ScoTLANu. — A single specimeii of 

 this insect was taken in Peebles, running on the pavement, near a 

 grassy bank, on July 26th last. Canon Fowler states that this insect 

 is almost confined to the south-eastern coasts of England, but he notes 

 the capture of a specimen by Dr. Sharp, in the Solway district, in 

 Scotland {C(d. Brit. Biennis, vol. iv., p. 157). The above record for 

 quite another part of Scotland is, therefore, interesting. — James E. 

 Black, Nethercroft, Peebles. 



Larinus carlin.e, Ol., and other Coleoptera in the Hastings 

 district. — Having spent six weeks at Rye, from the 81st of July last, I 

 found that in spite of the weather I did very well entomologically, and 

 added a number of interesting beetles to my collection. My best 

 capture was Larinus carlinae, a species which has not been taken in 

 the Hastings district for 25 years, when Mr. Butler took two specimens 

 at Rye. Mr. Bennett had told me about this capture, and that it had 

 not turned up since, and asked me to see if I could rediscover it. 

 After searching many spots and examining numerous thistles, I at 

 length found a place where the beetle occurred, and, moreover, was in 

 plenty. It was not found on the carline thistle. The beetles are very 

 hard to detect on their food-plant, as the yellow patches of hairs with 

 which the freshly emerged insect is ornamented assimilate with the 

 spines of the thistles, which are often yellow, and one finds that even when 

 looking very closely at a thistle, it is often a long time before the 

 beetle is noticed, although one may be looking straight at it all the time. 

 Of course it is easily swept. The beetles eat round holes in the centre of 

 the thistle leaves. Telinald/diiliis s/iarf/anii occurred in one ditch on 

 Span/aniiiiii, accompanied by T. tijphae and T. brerindtis. The last of 

 these species I turned up in four difterent localities, one iit Winchelsea, 

 two near Rye, and one at Iden. In thf last-nuuicd lucality 1 swept a 



