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left puncture in three of the specimens being markedly lower than its 

 corresponding fellow. 



We gave some little time to working one or two Formica riifa 

 nests, situated near the entrance of Balcombe Forest. I mention below 

 all the myrmecophilous beetles seen, knowing that all localities and 

 dates of such species are of particular interest to one of the editorial 

 staff, even when the beetles concerned are not by any means " rare." 

 O.vi/poda haemorrhoa, Sahl., common, Thiasoplnla am/idata, Er., very 

 scarce, Notothecta fiavipea, Grav., not uncommon, N. aticeps, Er., one 

 or two, Qiiedius brevu, Er., four or five, and Leptacinus forniicetonun, 

 Maerk., common, were the " regulars " present. One example of 

 Bryaxis fosmdata, Reich, presumably a stray, was also noticed. 



Additional Notes from Ditchling for 1911. — (Pages 20-28 

 <inte.) — Home of the more obscure captures of last year, having 

 been submitted for verification to the various specialists in their 

 groups, I now put on record Homalata lani/inda, Er., one or two 

 in thick moss from a small wood, April 15th. Homalota parens, 

 Er., from moss round a small pond, August 30th. Homalota pili- 

 <u)niis, Thorns., in company with the latter, very rare. Homalota exilia, 

 Er., a few of a large form of this species from under stones on April 

 12th. From a dead starling on September 22nd, I took a short series 

 ■each of Homalota puberida, Sharp, and H. oblita, Er., also one specimen 

 of a form apparently referable to soror, Kr. By sifting moss in the 

 garden field, H. villosida, Kr., was taken sparingly in April. 



One or two Gabrius bishopi, Sharp, were shaken out of cut reeds 

 at Offham, near Lewes, on April 30th. On September 23rd, I found a 

 small Placusa commonly under the sappy bark of an oak ; this turns 

 •out to be Placnm piimilio, Grav. A single specimen of Ato)iiana 

 iimbrina, Gyll., was also found under this bark. Other species of 

 Atomaria found during the year, worthy of noting down, were: — nuiri- 

 ventris, Steph., nit/ripemns, Payk., in cow sheds; atra, Herbst, rarely in 

 moss, etc. ; fiiscata, Sch. ; r^iitta, Steph., common round a small pond ; 

 wesomelaf,, Herbst, rare, in company with i/iitta : J'uscipes, Gyll., a few 

 by sweeping on the Downs; pnulla, Payk., very common in stack-refuse 

 and moss ; beroUnendx, Kr., rare ; apicalis, Er., not uncommon, and 

 versicolor, Er., one from a rotten oak bough. — H. C. D. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



A New European Butterfly. — Herr George C. Kriiger, of Milan, 

 contributes to Societas Entom(do<iica for March 15th, an interesting 

 note recording the occurrence in Spain of a Hesperid butterfly, which 

 is new to the European list. The insect in question is Fanara borbonica 

 var. holli, Obth., and the writer tells us that in December, 1910, his 

 father sent him, for the collection of Count Turati, a male specimen of 

 a " Dickkopf," which was a reminder that he had collected a number 

 of them more than twelve years previously, and had distributed them 

 among the gentlemen who had participated in his first collecting 

 journey, as " Panara nostrodamiis var." He took the first examples 

 of this beautiful golden-yellow befringed and dusted Hesperid, whose 

 forewings in both sexes are ornamented with semi- transparent spots, 

 in June and Jnly, 1899, on the flower-beds of the railway station at 

 Algeciras. Later on, in August and September, and in subsequent 



