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salt-marsh at Yarmouth. CeuthorhyncJddius horrulus, F., occurred 

 freely in August, 1894, on various thistles in the undercliff at Black- 

 gang, and very sparingly in the same locality in 1903. Phytobius 

 qiiadrinodosus-'-, Gyll. { = Bhinoncus denticollis, Shp. Cat.), I swept a 

 specimen in the glade in Parkhurst Forest, where I took Aphanisticm 

 eiiian/inattt^, F. Pityophtliorus puheacena-'' , Marsh., was also swept in 

 the same locality as the last. — H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe, F.Z.S., 

 F.E.S., 58, Kensington Mansions, S.W. January 5th, 1905. 



Coleoptera in the Peebles district in 1901. — During last year 

 I had several opportunities of collecting whilst away from home, 

 some notes of which have already been given. The following 

 species, all of which were obtained in the immediate vicinity of 

 Peebles, comprise the better "takes" of the season. One Stomis- 

 jjiaiticattis, Pz., was found under a stone in a wood by Tweedside, this- 

 being the only specimen I have taken in the district. Beiiibiduuii dorrs, 

 Pz., occurred in numbers in May when "sluicing" the banks of the 

 curling-pond. A solitarj' B. monticola, Stm., was taken in like 

 manner on Tweedside, and Hydroporus davisi. Curt., and H. septen- 

 tr ion alls, Gyll., were captured by hand (rather a tedious process), 

 amongst the gravel at the edge of a quiet pool on the river. Helo- 

 phoruH arvernicus, Muls., occurred once, on a sandy stretch of river- 

 bank, where, on a hot day, very many beetles were to be seen. 

 Under moss-covered bark on a fallen tree, I took a single example 

 of Bolitochara Incida, Gr., and B. oblujua, Er., was fairly common, 

 whilst one Hapalaraea pyymaea, Pk., was shaken out of some debris 

 beneath cut fir-branches. Under fir bark 1 took Rhizopjhayusferriujiiieiis, 

 Pk., and in flood-refuse, in January, Paraniecosoiim nwlanocephalutn, 

 Hbst. In June, I came across a colony of Sinodendron cylindricum, L., 

 in a decayed tree, this being the first time I have seen this fine beetle 

 here. Aeyialia mbideti, Pk., was captured on the sandy bank already 

 referred to, but not at all commonly, in May, and at the end of July I 

 had one of the best captures of the season, Salpinyus ater, Pk. Two 

 examples of Psylliudes picina, Marsh., were obtained from flood-refuse 

 in November. One of the earliest captures of the year, also from flood- 

 refuse, was Tropiphorns carinatus, Marsh., which I took January 11th, 

 Amongst other weevils I took Grypidius equiseti, F., by sweeping in a 

 wet ditch; Ccntliorhynchidins quercicola, Pk., was also obtained by 

 sweeping. Beneath the bark of a dead branch of fir, I secured a 

 number of Toniicus avuwinatus, Gyll., and during the year I have taken 

 three examples of Pityoyenes bidentaius, Hbst. I have again to express 

 my indebtedness to Prof. T. Hudson Beare for kindly verifying the 

 above species for me. — James E. Black, F.E.S., Nethercroft, Peebles, 

 N.B. January 2'drd, 1905. 



Chrysomela orichalcia. Mull., var. hoksoni, Steph., in the 

 Northumberland and Durham district. — Very local. In August 1904 

 I took a nice series on the Wear, at South Hylton. They all occurred 

 from under decaying hemlock leaves, lying close to the ground in a 

 certain favoured spot scarcely four yards in extent, and amongst all I 

 took there was not a single example of the type oricJialcia. All but 

 one answered to Stephens' {Man. Brit. Col., iii., p. 310, and Man., 

 iv., 343) and Canon Fowler's {Brit. Col., iv., p. 305, pi. 131, fig. 4) 

 descriptions of the var. hobsoni. The solitary exception, a $ , was, 

 in comparison, much larger, and was of a dull unicolorous purple ; 



