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to be taken, although one had to put up with getting drenched, the 

 best of the captures were — a few Ancutronycha abd(»innalis, F. ; one 

 Conjinbiti's inijircuHHs, F. ; several Sericosoiniis hninneus, L. ; whilst 

 Rhi/nr/iitcs nip reus, L., and Poh/<lri(siis iii icons, F., fairly swarmed with 

 a host of commoner species. On July 27th, I went down to look over 

 some flood refuse, and got several specimens of Uj/dyoci/jj/ion dc/lcri- 

 rollis, Miill., and two CviiiitohtipnHn maritinnts, Curt. On August 

 24th, I was on the lower slope of Cross Fell, the higliest point of the 

 Pennines, Aiiabim convener, Payk., was very common ; A. areticus, 

 Payk., two specimens ; Hi/ilroporns niorio, Dej., fairly common; a few 

 Rhantiis hi^triatiix, ]3erg. ; HybiKs acncscens, Thorns., common. These 

 all occurred in mossy holes well up the side of the hill ; Ijy treading 

 round the edge of one of the holes I obtained a pair of (ji/imiKsd 

 varieyata, Kies. On l^ecember 19th, a nice specimen of TetiaUmia 

 ancora, F., was found under dead fir bark ; whilst on December 22nd, 

 a fine mild day, 1 had a look at the fence posts round a small wood of 

 mixed trees, principally Scotch fir, with a sprinkling of spruce, larch, 

 oak, elm and beech, with an undergrowth of elder ; here I obtained 

 several Coryphium anyitsticulle, Steph., and Oinaliuin vile, Er., which 

 occurred on oak posts ; Saljduyns foveolatufi, Ljungh., on any kind of 

 post, but principally, however, under the elm ones, only very odd 

 specimens occurring away from the elms ; a fine lot of Pldoi'opkilHa 

 edwardsi, Steph., on the various kinds of post, and occurring the whole 

 length of the wood. I may add that, on January 20th, 1903, I took 

 a nice specimen of Chrysumela maryinata, L., in fiood refuse; on 

 January 22nd, one specimen of Meyacrunus inclinans, Grav., under a 

 stone, one Aleochara ninicnlonmi, Kr., in a rabbit hole, and, on 

 January 28th, whilst digging in a rabbit burrow, 1 obtained a fine 

 pair of Chnli'ra intennedia, Kr., from 12ft. to 15ft. from the entrance. 

 On January 29th, a fine example of Qtwdius pHnctirollis, Thoms., was 

 found in a rabbit burrow, and on January 31st, at Baron Wood, trying 

 rotten wood, the following species were taken, Leptasa fumida, Er., a 

 pair ; Qiwdiiis .fanthopus, Er., a pair ; Onialiurn punctipimnc. Thorns., 

 common; Rhayiiun inqimitor, F., common; all these species were 

 found in birch. In fungi on a birch stump, I took several Cu 

 bidentatus, 01., and Tetratoma f'unyoriuii, F., occurred commonly. 

 Where no locality is mentioned. Great Salkeld must be understood as 

 the locality.— H. P>ritten, Prospect House, Salkeld Dykes, Penrith. 

 April 20th, 1903. 



A NEW ABERRATION OF OtHIUS FULVIPENNIS, F. = AB. DONISTHORPEI, N.AB. 



— I think that the specimen of Oth.iui< fnlvipennis, F., with unicolorous 

 elytra, recorded by me in the Ent. Mo. May. as taken in the New 

 Forest, deserves a distinguishing name, and I propose to call it ab. donin- 

 thorpei, after my friend Mr. Horace Donisthorpe, who is, I understand, 

 at present at work in conjunction with Professor T. Hudson Beare on the 

 British list, and who has been kind enough to look up whether there is 

 any closely allied species known. Mr. Donisthorpe tells me that there is 

 a melanic specimen unnamed in the general collection of the British 

 Museum. My specimen was taken by digging at the roots of a large 

 oak, just as one would dig for lepidopterous pupie, and was found at a 

 short distance only from the main road that leads from Brockenhurst 

 to Lyndhurst, about a mile from Brockenhurst. The aberration differs 

 from the type in having the elytra concoloi'ous with the thorax, and in 



