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with only a few napi. Another abundant species of butterfly in this 

 month of August has been Riunicia phlaeas, which has been observable 

 in numbers wherever flowers were obtainable. Mr. Kaye, writing 

 from Surbiton, says that this species has appeared in his garden for 

 the first time this year. A single specimen has been hovering about a 

 clump of pink yarrow (AchiUaea) for quite ten days, and he notes how 

 interesting a fact it is " as showing how attached this little butterfly 

 -can become to a flower that takes its fancy, or perhaps to a flower that 

 tickles its palate." — H.J.T. 



@^OLEOPTERA. 



Mycetoporus forticornis, Fauv., in the Oxford District. — On 

 July 3rd, 1904, I took a Mycetoporus at Tabney in the sand pit, which 

 I have never been able to name with certainty. It has been suggested 

 it was M. davicornis, Steph., and even M. angularis, Muls., but I was 

 always convinced it was nothing I either knew or possessed. Dr. 

 Sharp has now kindly examined it, and he tells me it is M. fort ico mis, 

 Fauv. In Canon Fowler's British Coleoptera, vol. ii., p. 217, he treats 

 it as a var. of M. davicornis, and states that Dr. Sharp has it from 

 Inverness-shire, and that he has taken a specimen himself at Eepton. 

 In the E7it. Record for 1905, p. 270, Mr. H. Willoughby Ellis records 

 that Mr. Blatch took it at Sutton Park, Hopwas Woods, and Bewdley, 

 and that he himself had taken a specimen at Coleshill. Both the last 

 European Catalogue and Ganglbauer treat it as a good species, and I 

 see no reason why it should not be regarded as such. — Horace 

 Donisthorpe (F.Z.S., F.E.S.), 58, Kensington Mansions, S.W. 



Neuraphes rubicundus, Schm., and Pseudopsis sulcata, Newm., 

 FROM THE North of England in Winter. — On New Year's Eve, New 

 Year's Day, and January 2nd, 1911, I spent a few hours examining a 

 stack of old hay in a haugh on the Gibside Estate, at the foot of the 

 ruins of HoUmside, on the south bank of the Derwent, and was much 

 pleased to find Xeuraphes rubicundus in some numbers. On January 1st 

 and the day following the temperature was very low, and the stack 

 refuse was covered with more than an inch of snow, yet the little 

 Neuraidu's, unlike the commoner "stack" beetles, was running about 

 in a very wide-awake manner, so much so that, taking into considera- 

 tion its appearance in moderate numbers, I am tempted to believe that 

 it is a winter species. If so, then its hitherto rare occurrence is at 

 once explained. Several friends to whom I have sent specimens con- 

 firm its identification. A nice series of Pseudopsis sulcata, also new to 

 the Counties' fauna, and a single example of the curious and interesting 

 Encephalus coiujdicans, Westw., were also taken. — Richard S. Bagnall, 

 F.L.S., F.E.S., Penshaw Lodge, Penshaw, Co. Durham. ,Ii(li/ \1tk, 

 1911. 



PtENIDIUM LiEVIGATUM, GlLL., FROM THE NORTHUMBERLAND AND 



Durham area.^ — I have taken two specimens of this species, an addition 

 to the local list, in a mole's nest at Bradbury, County Durham. 

 It is apparently a widely distributed form. In working out my 

 Ptenidia I have derived much assistance from Messrs. Britten and 

 Newbery's recent paper on the genus {Ent. Mo. May., vol. xlvi., p. 178, 

 etc.). — E. S. Bagnall, F.L.S., F.E.S., Penshaw Lodge, Penshaw, Co. 

 Durham. Juh/ 11th, 1911. 



