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curtirostre, gyllenhnli, ^ninctigerum, ervi, onojiis, virens, etc. I>iuiii<j the second 

 and tliird weeks in last Axigust I collected in the Newton Aljbot and Bovey 

 Tracey district. Coleoptera were by no means pi entif ill, but among many other 

 species the following were obtained : — From Newton Abbot : Platambus maru- 

 latus, Orectochiius villosus, Anacae^ia limhata, Helochares lividus, Philonthus 

 quisquiliarius v.inquinatus, Stenus Imphthahnus, S.tarsalis, / halacrus corruscus, 

 Olihrvs particeps, Scirtes hemisphaericus, etc. From Bovey Tracey : — Epuraea 

 depressa, E. jlorea. Coccinella conylobata, about a dozen specimens, Cryptocephalus 

 fulvus, C. pusillus, Phytononius rumicis, P. triliyieatiis. From Heathfield : — Para- 

 Cijmus scidellaris, Hydrochus nitidicollis (first taken by Messrs. J. H. Keys and 

 P. De la Garde in the Meavy Valley, and subsequently by the latter at Christow), 

 and Laccohius purpura scens, a single example of each ; Microglossa puUa and 

 Gijmnetron heccabimgae v. nigrum. At Brad worthy, near Holsworthy, N. Devon, 

 in August, 1915, Lasia glohosa occurred very plentifully ; I also took a specimen 

 of Cassida equestrls Fab., an insect not previously recorded from the county, 

 I am indebted to my friend Mr. J. H. Keys for his kind help in identifying 

 many of the species. — A. Vincent Mitchell, 90, Mount Gold Eoad, Plymouth : 

 December 28th, 1916. 



Teratologies of Prasomris jnnr.i Brahni. — Three interesting abnormalities of 

 this beetle occurred to me during August at Barnard Castle on Cochlearia and 

 Brooklime : a, a specimen with the left anterior leg correctly shaped, but of 

 only half the normal size as shown by the corresponding leg on the right ; b, a 

 fully mature specimen with hard integument, but with the left intermediate 

 leg teneral and still reddish ; c, a specimen with the left posterior leg somewhat 

 flattened in a vertical plane for about half its length with a strong carina, on 

 the upper side, then suddenly and abruptly reduced to a third the normal 

 thickness for a further sixth of the length, and with the last third of the usual 

 shape, but bent outwards at right angles to the first portion so as to form a 

 letter L. — Geo. B. Walsh, 166, Bede Burn Road, Jarrow-on-Tyne : January 

 10th, 1917. 



Malthodes atonius Thorns. : synonymical note. — Amongst some new synonyms 

 of European Coleoptera recently recorded by M. Bedel (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 

 LXXXV, p. 271, Aug., 1916), there is one concerning Malthodes atomxis Thorns. 

 (1864), an insect well known to British entomologists. This is stated to = 

 M. pumilus Brebisson (18;3.j), the type of which was from Calvados. M.pumilus 

 Motsch. (1853), from the Crimea, therefore requires a new name. — G. C. 

 Champion, Horsell, Woking : January, 1917. * 



Diptera at Dunster (Somerset). — When spending some weeks during August, 

 1916, at Dunster, a friend suggested that I should collect flies. The I'esult shows 

 the locality to be very rich and well worth the attention of entomologists. The 

 total number of species captured was close upon 100, and the following are some 

 of the rarer ones .- — 



Pachyrrhina impeiHalis Meig., in low-lying meadows. Mnchimus atricapillus 

 Fin. Anthrax hottentata L., much worn, in fair numbers on bare patches of 



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