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Mr. Balfour Browne; Oxypoda soror, Th., taken by Mr. Donisthorpe 

 and the writer on Snowdon; Anisotoma lucens, Fair., swept by Mr. 

 Donisthorpe at Woodhay, near Newbury; Henoticus serratus, Gyll., 

 taken by Mr. Donisthorpe near Newbury, and by Mr. Kid son Taylor in 

 North Wales; Cryptohypnus pulchellus, L., taken by Mr. Black and the 

 writer near Newtonmore; Acrulia inflata, Gyll., taken by Mr. Bagnall 

 and the writer at Winlaton-on-Tyne ; Quedius Hparius, Kell., taken 

 near Bakewell, in Derbyshire, by Mr. J. Kidson-Taylor ; Procas 

 armillatus, F., found near Dartford, by Mr. Jennings; Lamprinus 

 saginatus, Gr., taken at Tubney by Commander Walker; Euplectus 

 minutissimus, Aub., swept up by Commander Walker near Oxford; 

 ( 'alosoma sycophanta, L., is another of Commander Walker's many good 

 captures, it was taken in the New Foi'est, another was taken in the 

 Forest at Lyndhurst ; Carpophilus sexpustulatus, P., taken by Mr. 

 Bayford and Dr. Corbett near Doncaster, under conditions which 

 apparently prove that it regularly breeds in this country in the 

 open; Acrognathus mandibularis, Gyll., taken in some numbers by 

 Mr. Champion at Horsell ; Otiorhynchus morio, F., var. ebeninus, Gyll., 

 taken by Mr. Kidson-Taylor in 1901, near Loch Assynt, in Sutherland- 

 shire ; Sitaris muralis, Forst., found in some numbers near Oxford, by 

 Mr. Hamm. 



A number of interesting articles have appeared during the year in 

 the pages of the entomological journals. The important problems 

 concerned with island fauna have been dealt with in an interesting 

 paper by Dr. Joy on the coleopterous fauna of Lundy Island (Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., xlii., p. 1). Dr. Joy visited the Island in August, 1905, and in 

 his article gives a complete list of the whole of the species of coleoptera 

 which have so far been recorded from Lundy Island ; up to the date 

 of this article 260 species had been taken. It was in a later visit, in 

 April 1906, when accompanied by Mr. Tomlin, that Cardiophorus 

 erichsoni was added to our list. I published a note (loc. cit., p. 77), 

 giving a list of the coleoptera taken by Mr. W. Eagle Clarke on the 

 remote Fair Isle. 



The interesting antipodean field notes by Commander J. J. Walker, 

 were, during the past year, continued and concluded in the Ento- 

 mologists' Monthly Magazine, pp. 22, 50 ; these notes will undoubtedly 

 prove of great value to any visitor to Australia who is anxious to do a 

 little collecting while sight-seeing; the numerous hints as to the best 

 localities, and the habitats of many of the more striking species, will 

 undoubtedly save such a collector a considerable amount of time. 



Mr. K. S. Bagnall in a paper entitled " Coleoptera imported into 

 our northern ports " (loc. cit., p. 36) gives a long list of introduced 

 species, and a study of this list shows how important it is that some 

 such arrangement should be adopted, as I suggested in my retrospect 

 last year, for separating from the general list these introduced species. 



Two or three interesting papers (in addition to those already 

 mentioned), dealing more or less with synonymy and morphological 

 characters for separating allied species, have appeared during the year. 

 The Rev. G. A. Crawsbay, in a paper entitled " Further notes on Amara 

 anthobia, Villa," and the " Comparative Morphology of A. familiaris, 

 Duft., A. anthobia, and A. lucida, Duft." (lo& fit., p. 13), describes fully 

 the characters which may safely be employed in separating these allied 

 species, dealing with size differences, coloration differences, absence, 



