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to be widely spread in France, although very rare. Reitter gives 

 {Cat., 1891) no other European Iccality. It is a significant fact that 

 some broom tops had been recently purchased^ but from whence I have 

 not been able to ascertain. — E. A. Newbery, 12, Churchill Road, N.W. 

 Octuber Slst, 1902. 



CoLEOPTERA IN Barron Wood, CUMBERLAND. — The past summcr 

 has been one of the coldest and most sunless I remember, and coleop- 

 tera have been correspondingly scarce. It was not until Jane was in 

 its third week that here in the north Ave had a touch of real summer 

 warmth, and then it was of the most transient nature. On the 24th 

 of this month after two previous but futile attempts, I managed to 

 reach Barron Wood in the Eden Valley, perhaps the last remaining 

 fragment of the ancient forest of Inglewood, which, in former times, 

 extended from Penrith to Carlisle. This Barron Wood was a favourite 

 hunting-ground with the entomologists of Carlisle of 50 and more 

 years ago. T. C. Heysham, a valued correspondent of Stephens, found 

 some of his rarest insects there, and the locality gave J. B. Hodgkinson 

 many fine micro-lepidoptera. It was there also that the Geometrid, 

 Eubolia viacniata, now relegated to the list of British "casuals," was 

 taken. I met my friend, Mr. Britten, by appointment at Lazonby and 

 soon after we were hard at work in the wood beating the mountain- 

 ash trees for lihunchites cnpreus, L. We had met with this weevil a 

 year ago on the same ground, but only sparingly, as we were probably 

 too late for it then, or rather the season of 1901 was a more forward 

 one than the present. This year, however, we had just hit the right 

 time, and it did not take long to give us as many as we wanted. In 

 the hot sunshine it is an excitable insect and soon flies off the beating- 

 sheet. We met with many other species by beating other trees as 

 well as mountain-ash, perhaps the finest being a lovely specimen of 

 Saperda scalarh, L., the only longicorn we saw except Bhaniuni 

 bifaaciatum , F., and Grainnioptcra ritjicornis, F. We took some rather 

 interesting skipjacks, of which Corynibites impressus, F., was the best 

 but was not numerous enough to satisfy us. C. querciis, Gyll., was 

 common enough with one or two var. ochropteras, Steph., C.cupreus var. 

 aenufinosus, ¥., was taken on the wing, and a single boater balteatus. 

 L., came from oak. Sericosonnis hrunnens, L., both males and females 

 turned up in fair numbers, mostly on hawthorn. A skipjack we 

 specially wanted was Atlions i-ittatns, F., biit we only managed to pick 

 one or two each from the hosts of A. Iiaetnorr/umlolis, F., which wei'e 

 always dropping on to the sheet. Dolopius mariiinatus, L., was very 

 abundant and variable. Telcphoridae were numerous, the best being 

 Podabi'us alpiniis, Payk., Telcphorua hacmorrhtiidalis, F., and Malthodcs 

 atumus, Thorns. Some old larches produced Dnjophihis piisilluft, Gyll., 

 both sexes in plenty. Polydrnsus micans, F., and P. undatus, F., were 

 both common on birch, the former being in fine condition. A single 

 Magdalia annvjera, Fourc, also came from oak, a single Attelabuf 

 curculionoidea, L. Some hawthorns gave us a series of Lochniata 

 cratacgi, Forst. Rain unfortunately came on in the afternoon and put 

 a stop to beating and made sweeping unpleasant, so we went down to 

 the river to see if there was anything to be had. On the sandy 

 margins, Bembidimn j)aliid()t>u>n, Panz., was al)undant, with others of 

 the genus. L>. bipuiutatnin, L., which we found here last year, did 

 not turn up on this occasion. Under dead branches lying on the sand 



