114 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



" brother of the net " has had it in use in some of his boxes for several 

 years past, but there are two great objections to it which, to my mind, 

 "far outweigh its advantages of holding the pins tightly and being free 

 from flaws. These are (1) its excessive weight (as compared with cork), 

 which will quickly be realized if a store-box lined with linoleum be 

 held in one hand while a similar one lined with cork be supported in 

 the other ; this is a decided disadvantage, for our cabinet drawers and 

 boxes, if well and stoutly made, are none too light as it is, when filled 

 with pinned insects ; (2) its tendency to cause mould on the specimens, 

 which appears to be due to its being practically air-pi-oof , and so helping 

 to prevent any such slight circulation of air through the box as naturally 

 takes place when cork is used. Owing to its colour forming an equally 

 bad background for the majority of insects, linoleum would, I think, 

 like cork, have to be covered with white paper. — Eustace K. Bankes, 

 The Rectory, Corfe Castle. Jan. 2Qt]i, 1895. 



OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



CoLEOPTERA AT IpswiOH IN 1894. — The normal Spring and summcr 

 of the past year have been far more advantageous to Coleopterists than 

 was the excessive heat of 1893. During the former especially, Cole- 

 optera of all orders swarmed in our Suffolk woods and lanes. The 

 beating-stick was rarely idle, and the inverted gam^) in constant requi- 

 sition. Later the sweep-net showed up good things, and lastly, moss 

 was proved worthy of transmission from the wood to the study, for the 

 purpose of identification. 



A stroll through an adjacent park on 11th January, produced 

 Badinter hipustnldtus, Pterostichns inaequalis, TacJu/porn!-! hi/pnorum, clirij- 

 somelinn>i and hniiterosus, Plati/fttethus arenariux, Apliodius ftmetarius, 

 Phyllotreta undidata and Ekinosomns planirostris — in all about twenty 

 species. On 20th, bark on poplars and willows by the river was 

 despoiled of Erirhiims vorax (galore), BradyceUus distincttis, Dromins agdis, 

 Xantholinus Ihiearis, Meeinns pyraster, Chrysomela stapliylea, and Phoedon 

 concinnnm. Anchomemis prasinns was common at the base of elms on 

 27th, together with Calathus melnnocephahis, Stenus speculator and 

 simih's, Choleva grandicoUis and Apion miniatahi. On the 28th Lema 

 cyanella was taken, under the bark of a willow, from which I have subse- 

 quently taken about sixty specimens, and Hi/droporus pahistris and pla- 

 nus from ditches. Another Mccinns pyraster and Hypera fascicnlata 

 from under bark on 29th, and a single Droinias meridionalis on 30th, 

 completed the list of the first month. 



On February 1st, I took Crepldodera chloris from under bark, and a 

 dozen Clwlcca tristis from a dead rabbit on the 3rd ; Orchestes quercus 

 from oak on 8th. The 13th was rather a good day, the following 

 being among those taken : — Loricera jrilicornis, Bemhidimn littorale, 

 Olibruscorticalis, Chrysomela p)ollta, Phyllotretra undidata, a dozen Erirhmus 

 validirostris, Cis holeti under bark on a dead willow (together, I may 

 mention, with a nice ant, Leptothorax nylanderi) ; while Dromius meri- 

 dioutdis, 4:-maculatits, and qnadrinotatns, Tachyjiorus ohtasus, Proteinus 

 hremcollis and Coccinella ohliteraia turned up on the 21st. Some aspens 

 on the 23rd yielded 43 Erirhinus validirostris, together with E. iwrax, 

 BemJndinm quadriinacalatiini, Phinosiiiius planirostris and Scaphidema 

 aeneum. 



