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time of T^f. Power. Orucliarca aniiiistatus, Kr., another unique, has 

 been captured by Dr. Joy at Bradfield. Lamia te.vtov, L., was taken by 

 Mr. P. H. Jackson in North Wales, near Harlech, last June. Blcdius 

 fenioralis, GylL, which has never been taken in this country since the 

 date of Mr. G. R. Waterhouse's captures, when it was introduced into 

 our list, was taken in some numbers by Dr. Joy, in the Wokingham 

 district. The same gentleman has taken Jileiliiis taunis, Germ., in 

 numbers in its old locality on the Norfolk coast — the Wells marshes. 

 After this record was published, Mr. Champion, on going through his 

 collection, found he had taken specimens of B. fi' in oral is at Mickleham 

 and Woking. I found Aj)lianisticiis cmaii/inatus, F., intro<laced into 

 our list last year by ^Ir. Donisthorpe, at the locality in which he took 

 it, Parkhurst Forest, in September last. One of the longicorns 

 recently introduced, IVtropiiim castaiu'iiin, L., has been taken at King's 

 Lynn, Norfolk, and, in connection with the record of this capture, Mr. 

 Newbery publishes a note (A'h*. Mo. Ma;/., vol. xl., p. 86), on the 

 characters for separating fusciim and casfaiu'iiui. I captured a single 

 specimen of ( 'atlionnioceriis sm-ius, Boh., in September last, near 

 Ventnor; this is a new locality in its headquarters, the Isle of Wight. 

 A number of articles of considerable interest have been published 

 in our entomological journals during the past year. Mr. Newbery 

 contributes (I'^nt. Ilt'conl, vol. xvi., p. 80) some notes on M. Bedel's 

 " Coleopteres du Bassin de la Seine," Tome 5, Fas. 2, dealing with 

 the changes of synonymy which will probabl)'' have to be made in the 

 I'hiltiijJiaiia of the British catalogue. As I propose later on to go 

 more fully into the question of these proposed changes, it is not 

 necessary here to do more than draw attention to Mr. Newbery's 

 important note. Mr. W. E. Sharp discusses (Lnt. Recunl, vol. xvi., 

 p. 90) the differences which have been given for separating the two 

 species Aifahim iinindcularis, Th., and Ai/abtis ajfjnis, Pk. Mr. Edwards 

 (l. c, p. 187) criticised this note, and Mr. Sharp replied to this 

 criticism on p. 247. Personally I have found no difficulty in separating 

 the two species, or what T consider to be the two species, by what 

 Dawson termed the " general habit " of the beetles. I have taken both 

 species — ajfiiiis in numbers in tiood-refuse at the reservoirs near 

 Edinburgh — and niit/uii iilaris at Askham bog — and when the species 

 from these two localities are placed side by side, there is no difficulty 

 in picking them out. Dr. Joy contributes {Knt. llccord, vol. xvi., p. nO) a 

 note on the larvit of ('ossns Ui/ui/icrila and the coleoptera which haunt 

 its burrows, giving a long list of the species tbat he has taken in this 

 habitat, many of them rare ones. Mr. Donisthorpe gives {Knt. Iteoinl, 

 vol. xvi., p. 150) some interesting experimental proofs of the 

 distastefulness of Mcloi^ riolatms, Marsh., and the edibility of J>i'innstes 

 iiinrinuN, L. The experiments were made at the Zoological Gardens ; 

 the former insect was rejected bj' all the animals tried, while the latter 

 was greedily devoured. On p. 301, Mr. Donisthorpe gives a note on the 

 Myrmecophilous habits of I'vtania aiirata, L. ; he was able to rear larvje 

 of this insect, taken originally in the New Forest by Prof. Poulton, in 

 his experimental nest of Formica nifa. Mr. E. J. 13. Sopp con- 

 tributes {Knt. Record, vol. xvi., p. 151) a note on " An immigration 

 flight of Aplioiliiis inijitinatns, Fab.," on the Lancashire coast on 

 April l(5th, 1904. Li the Kttt. Mo. Ma;/., Mr. J. J. Walker contiinied 

 his valuable and important paper on " A Year's Insect-Huuling in 

 New Zealand," a paper valuable not only on account of the number of 



