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I have comparecl the types of P. afn'cps find P. darunni in the British 

 Museum collection, and have no doubt the\' are con<reneric. Enderlein, 

 however, states that the front tarsi are 4-jointed, the others 5-jointed. In 

 the specimens of P. darwini I have examined as microscopical preparations the 

 tarsal formula is 4, 4, 5 ; the description of the moutli-parts aofrees with that 

 published by me, and I think Enderleia's account of the tarsi must be incorrect. 

 In any case, the name Parapki/fosus must pive way to Antarctophytosus f<n" 

 tliese species, both of which are recorded by him from the Crozet Isls. — 

 Malcolm Camerox, 9 Blessington Road, Lee, S.E. 13 : September 8th, 1917. 



T//e foo'l-phtnt of E lomias pellucidns Boh. — I swept this species commonly 

 at the end of May 1916, within a small area, in a g'arden at Meole Brace, near 

 Shrewsbury. Careful research showed that it was livino- on the Germander 

 Speedwell, Vei-onici chamaedriis \u I can confirm Fowler's record o^ Exomius 

 araneifoi-mix as a strawberry pest. It is to be found, not at all uncommonlv, 

 burrowing into the ripe berries.- -.1. R.le B. Tomlin, Lakefoot, Alexandra lioad, 

 Reading: September \'2th, 1917. 



Anchomeniis se.vpuncfattis L. in Berls. — It is a great pleasure to be able 

 to record the reappearance of this species in some numbers. Since its dis- 

 appearance from Wimbledon Common, no certain locality seems to have been 

 known for it, and in the last fifteen years I only know of two captures — by 

 the late Mr. L. H. Jahn at Dove Dale, and by Canon Fowler in the Wellington 

 College district, in each case only a single specimen.* I first came across it on 

 May 30th of last year, in damp ground, about a quarter of a mile from 

 Wellington College Station, running in the sunshine — on the same day and in 

 the same clearing where I first found Pterostichus nngustatus Duft. It continued 

 to occur there iu some numbers until early autumn, and I fancy that a second 

 brood comes out early in August ; at any rate, I saw specimens which were verv 

 soft and immature in the first or second week of August, both last year and 

 this. It has also occurred sporadically in several other localities in the same 

 district, including the banks of King's Mere, where Canon Fowler took his 

 specimen, and has been not at all uncommon throughout this summer. 

 A. sexpunctatus also appeared early last Jime on the edge of a small pond 

 on jiurghfield Common, Berks, and seems likely to establish itself there. At 

 any rate, it has been noticed 'there several times subsequently. — J. R. le B. 

 Tomlin. 



Kanophyes f/racilis Pedt. in Berks.— In June last I found a specimen of 

 this weevil running on mud on the edge of a small pond on Burghfield Com- 

 mon — the pond where Aiichomemis ttexpunctatns L. also occurs. Subsequent 

 examination of its foftd-plai.t, Peplis portnla L., proved that the beetle was far 

 from uncommon. I also found a Haltica, as yet undetermined, feeding on the 

 same plant.--J. R. le B. Tomlin, 



Sil2>hn snbrotundafa Steph. in the Isle of Man. — On reading recently the 

 late Dr. Bailey's note on this species iu the Ent. Mo. Mag. Oct. 190:i, pp. :i38-9, 

 I notice that he states that only the brown form occurs in Man, though both 



* I have taken it once or twice at Woking, singly. — G. C. C. 



