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1 took a small series of li. aajiiatus at Winlaton Mill in the spring of 

 1903. R. ^ENEoviRENs, March. — Winlaton Mill and Gibside. Apion 

 GENISTA, Kirb. — Winlaton Mill. A. hydrolapathi, Kirb. — Gibside, 

 Hylton, etc. Erirhinus scirpi, F. — I took a single specimen clinging 

 to a stone beneath high water mark, this spring, on the Wear, near 

 Hylton, and by repeatedly sweeping at the same locality, took two 

 more the following week. Dorytomus melanophthalmus, Pk. — Below 

 Axwell Park and at Winlaton Mill, autumn. The var. a//natJiu><, Boh., 

 occurs with the type. Cryphalus tille, Pz. — One example taken by 

 Mr. Gardner, at Hartlepool or in Teesdale. Probably introduced. 

 Dryoc^tes autographus, Ratz. — One example by sweeping a small 

 firwood in Gibside. It has evidently not hitherto been taken in any 

 other locality than Scarborough, when it was found in 1869. D. alni, 

 Georg. — A few from beneath bark of a fallen beech in a wood above 

 Winlaton Mill, autumn, 1904. Tomicus sexdentatus, Born. T, 

 typographus, L. — Both these very rare Scolytids were amongst Mr. 

 Gardner's unnamed beetles, but owing to them being without data, 1 

 prefer for the present to regard them as iiatroduced. T. acuminatus, 

 Gyll. — One example by sweeping at Ofterton, near Hylton, spring, 

 1905. 



Ptinus latro, F., in London. — Last May I took a Pthins in the 

 bath in my bath-room at 58, Kensington Mansions, which at the time 

 I took to be 5 P. fur, but on comparing it with that species I found 

 the shape to be different and the antennae shorter, besides the fact that 

 it has no white markings. It agrees exactly with a foreign specimen 

 of P. latro possessed by Mr. Bates. Of this insect Fowler writes: "In 

 old houses, especially in store rooms ; two examples in Mr. Water- 

 house's collection, one from old collection with no history, and the 

 other labelled ' Scotland, Turner.' " These appear to be the only 

 British records ! I may say that Xiptus hololeucus occurs regularly 

 every year in my flat, and I often find specimens in the bath. 

 They no doubt come from the woodwork of the bath. — Horace 

 Donisthorpe. 



On a flight of Rhizotrogus solstitialis, L. — In July last, when 

 I was staying with Mr. E. A. Waterhouse, near Sandwich, we noted 

 the evening flight of BJiisotrof/us sohtitialis, L. Towards dusk, along 

 about two miles of road, they were in countless thousands, flying over 

 the top of a small fir wood, over a cornfield, and round the telegraph 

 poles and wires ; they also flew against, and settled on, us. On our 

 way home we saAV a single large bat flying in the direction from 

 whence we had come. The next night we went to see if the same 

 thing occurred again, and found hundreds of these big bats chasing 

 and catching the beetles in the air, though the}' often missed them. 

 A hedgehog, too, was picking up those that fell to the ground. On 

 the third night there was not a single beetle to be seen. — Ibid. 



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LiTHOsiA soRORcuLA (aureola) NEAR Stroud. — A specimeii of thi& 

 uncommon species, in fine condition, was found resting on a leaf of 

 Mercurialia perennu (Dog's Mercury), in the Stroud district during the 



