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the short time spent there, necessarily curtailed by threatening mists. Doubt- 

 less earlier in the season it would yield a few interesting insects, as Narthecium 

 and other plants grow freely in the bogs above it. The species marked with an 

 asterisk are probably additions to the County list.— G. C. Champion, Horsell. 

 Woking : November, 1916. 



Claviqer longicornis Milll. in Glamorgan. On October 8th I found a lai'ge 

 colony of the ant, Donisthorpea ( Lasius) umbrata Nyl., beneath a large fiat stone 

 at Sully, near Penarth. On the under-surface of the stone were great numbers 

 of winged females, and running among these I found four examples of the 

 beetle Claviger longicornis Miill. Further visits to the nest proved fruitless, 

 and by the 22nd the ants had all disappeared below ground. The nest also 

 contained the mite, Sphaerolaelaps holothy roides Leon., in some niunbers ^ — 

 H. M. Hallett, 64, Westbourne Road, Penarth: Decemlier 6th, 1916. 



Lytta vesicatoria L. in Norfolk. — It may be of interest to record that two 

 Norfolk specimens of Lytta vesicatoria have recently come into my possession. 

 On June 6th last, Mr. H. Dixon Hewitt, of Thetford, sent me a living example 

 which he had just captured in that town in a spider's web. The second one was 

 given me by Mr. J. S. Warburton, who took it at Methwuld, in the same neigh- 

 bourhood, on June 13th, 1914. It has previously occurred in this county, but 

 there is no record of its capture here for very many years. — H. J. Thoulkss, 

 Corfe, College Eoad, Norwich : November 23rd, 1916. 



Psylliodes cyanoptera III. at Thetford. — I am able to record an additional 

 locality for this rare beetle to those mentioned by Mr. Donisthorpe in his recent 

 note on the species (Ent. Mo. Mag., LII, p. 204), as I captm-ed a solitary speci- 

 men by general sweeping at Thetford, on August 7th, 1911. Unfortunately I 

 did not recognise the beetle until I reached home, and therefore made no search 

 for fiorther examples. — H. J. Thouless: November 23rd, 19\6. 



A note on Coleoptera found in two consecutive bags of Thames flood rubbish. 

 —On the 7th and 8th inst., there was a considerable rise in the Lower Thames, 

 and on each of these consecutive days I took a small bag of rubbish from the 

 same spot. This rubbish was collected by sweeping along in the very margin 

 of the rising water with a water net, and when full, tying a string round the 

 bag of rubbish thus obtained, and putting it through ^-ineh sieve on returning. 



J'irst day.— Nature of rubbish, almost entirely small pieces of grass as 

 found in the box of a lawn-mower. Quantity of rubbish proportionately small, 

 the water having only just risen over the fields. Almost every blade of grass 

 had its marooned inhabitants, and thistle stems were absolutely black with 

 Staphylinidae. Number of beetles proportionately tremendous, the rubbish 

 literally swarming with insect life. Beetles taken — Hypera punctata, Chryto- 

 mela staphylaea, and Phaedons, several specimens. Erirrhinus acridulus, 

 Longitarsi (especially jacobaeae), and Apions in abundance, an uncountable 

 mass of Staphylinidae, and many Cercyons. 



