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Capture of Trachodes Mspidus. — Yesterday (in company with Mr. J. T. Hanns, 

 of Burton-on-Trcnt), I took this local species at its hcacl-quarters, Buddon Wood, 

 where I have found it in three different places. It appears in July, August, and 

 September ; but about the second week in August seems to be the gi'and time 

 for ^. 



To shew that it requires careful hunting, I may mention that I have taken fifty 

 whilst a friend with me only took one. It is found on the underside of semi- 

 decayed branches of oak lying on the ground ; the smaller branches, or even twigs, 

 and those that have fallen during the spring or early summer, being the most 

 productive. I have taken it in some instances upon rotten wood, bat feel convinced 

 that it is a loss of time to search for it there, as I found it upon almost every half- 

 rotten twig I examined yesterday. 



It affixes itself rather tightly to the bark, so as not to be easily shaken off, 

 and its roughened surface and colom* assimilate very closely to its lurking places. 

 I intend to collect a bundle of the branches next month, and endeavour to rear the 

 species, as I have little doubt but that it deposits its eggs on the fallen twigs. 

 — Harry Holyoak, 42, Humberstone Gate, Leicester, 7th August, 1865. 



Note on Byschmus extensus, Putzeys. — Mr. J. F. Dawson has sent to M. Putzeys 

 a specimen of the D. elongatuhis of the Geod. Brit, (kindly lent to me for that 

 purpose by the Rev. Hamlet Clark, who took it at Deal), which has been returned 

 to him as the D. extensus of that author, whose name stands through priority of 

 date. 



This synonymy (as mentioned in the Ent, Annual for 1863) was suspected long 

 ago by Mr. Waterhouse, in spite of Dr. Schaum having brought over his supposed 

 type of D. extensus, which did not quite accord with Putzeys' description, or with 

 our insect ; the fact being, I believe, that the specimen taken in company, and 

 supposed to be identical, with Dr. Schaum's insect, and from which Putzeys 

 described his species, was different from the individual retained by Dr. Schaum. — 

 E. C. Rye, 284, King's Road, Chelsea. 



Notes on Northern Coleoptera. — The following is a brief account, as regards 

 beetles, of an entomological tour I made in the north of England in June and the 

 early part of July last. 



My work commenced in North Cheshire ; where, however, I was able to devoto 

 only a limited amount of time to collecting insects. In this district the locality 

 that yielded me best sport was on the banks of the river Bollin, a little below 

 Ashley. Here I captured Benibidium paludosum commonly, as it ran about in deep 

 hot sand amid the sunshine. Its rapid pace (the swiftest of any beetle that I 

 know) was in singular contrast to the tardy movements of Reterocerus marginattis, 

 found in its company, as well as in the stream. On the sand Bledms sxiitcrraneus 

 was sprawling in great numbers, with frequent examples of Amara fulva ; while, 

 where the sand was washed by the river, Tachyusa constricta and leucopa occurred 

 very commonly, and Philonthits villosulus sparingly. By sweeping adjacent her- 

 bage I obtained Apimi afer and Crepidodera rufipes, and in the same neighbourhood, 

 in ponds, Hydroporus erythrocephalus, var. deplanatu^, and vittula, and Helophorus 

 arvernicus. 



