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Captures of Coleoptera diwintj the past winter. — I coramenced the new year 

 with a short excursion to Seaton (near Colyton), on the South Devon Coast. I was 

 on a visit, so that I could only entomologize occasionally. The weather was 

 delightful, but insects were not generally abundant. 



I found, under the cliffs and elsewhere, a few specimens of Dermestes 

 tessellatus, Corylophus cassidoides, Apion subulatum, Limnichus sericeus, Baridius 

 lepidii, Phyllotreta melcena, Apion difforme, varipes, &c., and other more common 

 species. 



I was surprised at the great scarcity of Brachelytra. At the roots of gras?, 

 &c., I found a few specimens of what is called the Isle of Wight variety of Dromius 

 sigma (D. ohlitus, Boield., of Mr. Crotch's Catalogue). I think this is quite a new 

 locality for it. 



In the moss, &c., on the landslip, and Seaton Down, I found Thyamis parvula 

 in abundance, associated (in the same way as I saw it in Norfolk in August) 

 with an Apldho7ia, exceedingly like that which occurs at Mickleham, and which we 

 always called A. hilaris. It is singular, however, that both the Norfolk and 

 Devonshire specimens should invariably be nearly twice the size of those from 

 Mickleham, and I strongly suspect that they will be found to be different species. 



Last spring I took Apion stolidmm in great abundance, by sweeping the 

 Chrysanthemum leucanthemum on a bank near Watford. At Seaton, I found the 

 cognate species, Apion confluens, also in great abundance, by examining the 

 Matricaria chamomilla on the cliffs and beach. I never took it but once before, 

 and then scantily — at Brighton. It is singular that, at this dead season, it is not 

 apparently laid up at the roots of the plant, but is out on the leaves, and a fresh 

 supply seems to come out day by day. They were very quiet, but scarcely torpid, 

 and I frequently found them in copula. Lastly, I took a very considerable stock 

 of Sitones Waterhousii, an insect which I never before saw alive. I first found one 

 or two specimens, but on investigating more closely the ways of the creature, I 

 found it to be laid up in the tangles of the stems of Lotus corniculatus, which I 

 have no doubt is its food-plant. It was only present where the spot was moist, and 

 its locality was limited to a distance of about 20 yards. My specimens are 

 generally splendid ones, not rubbed at all, so that clearly it is " in situ." 



Trachys nanv^s, Pachyrhinus 4!-nodosus, &c., &c., are still to be found at Mickle- 

 ham, and the last time I was there, I was surprised at taking upwards of thirty 

 specimens of the beautiful Thyamis dorsalis at the roots of the herbage. 



At Eeigate, I have recently taken Callistus, Lehia cyanocephala, Amara 

 rufocincta, Pachyrhinus 4:-nodosus, Scymnus Mulsanti, Pseudopsis s^llcatus, 8tenus 

 nigritulus, Gyll. {unicolor, Steph.), &c., &c. — J. A. Powee, M.D., 52, Burton 

 Crescent. 



Capture of Lathridius filiformis. — In Mr. Murray's " Catalogue of the Coleop- 

 tera of Scotland," p. 43, is recorded the capture of Lathridius elongatus by me. I 

 have lately (by Mr. Rye's assistance) discovered that the species so named ought 

 to have been L. filiformis. On again looking for this uasect to-day, I secured seven 

 examples, besides seeing several of its larva. 



I am not aware that L. fdiformis has boon met with so far north by any other 

 person, and I understand that the few British specimens in collections have come 

 mostly from Devonshire.— M. Young, 7, Old Sneddon Street, Paisley, 3nl March, 1865. 



