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that it will soon be available foi- study. It contains at least 30,0U0 specimens of 

 Coleoptera and 5000 Eemiptera. As regards the Coleoptera, it is perhaps the most 

 extensive collection that has ever been made of our British species. It is especially 

 rich in Staphylinida, and contains several uniques, the most important of wliich is 

 Borhoropora KraatzL The specimens are nearly all carefully numbered and re- 

 gistered, the register (giving the precise locality) extending over the years 1848— 

 1879. Dr. Power, as is well known, exclusively devoted his attention to British 

 insects, and a very large number of his specimens were captured by himself. Many 

 of the rarer species, his liberality notwithstanding, are still represented by long 

 series. It is a matter for congratulation that the collection has become national 

 property. — Eds. 



The habits of Pot/onus. — In the course of a stroll along the foreshore of the 

 Isle of Slieppey yesterday evening, I happened to pass the spot where I met with 

 Pogomis luridipennis last September {cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., ser. 2, vol. vi, p. 282), and 

 went down on the salt-marsh to see if any of the genus were stirring. The evening 

 being \ery iine and warm, my eyes were soon gladdened by the sight, first of Pogonus 

 lUtoralis, and immediately afterwards of P. luridipennis coursing rapidly over the 

 bare mud ; and a few yards further on both species were found in numbers, evidently 

 " at home." Hitherto I have always found Pogoni under small stones, seaweed, 

 and rejectamenta on the shore, or else running about in the sunshine in a somewhat 

 aimless way. Here, in the few places where a little moisture remained after the 

 present prolonged drought, they were to be found, each beetle sitting with its head 

 just at the level of the soil, in a vertical burrow about half-an-inch deep ; the earth 

 being thrown out round the mouth of the burrow in a granular form as by a sand- 

 hopper or a Bledius, only in a much more regular fashion. As one tramped over 

 the soft but tolerably firm soil, the Pogoni came hastily out of their holes, and ran 

 off at their best pace in all directions, occasionally vanishing for an instant down 

 the numerous sun cracks, and at once re-appearing on the surface. In less than an 

 hour, before sunset put a stop to collecting, I had bottled fine series of both the 

 rarer Pogoni, the usually abundant P. chalceus, oddly enough, being quite rare on 

 this occasion. The little strip of salt-marsh, which is overflowed only by the highest 

 tides, is now reduced by the encroachment of the shingle to barely two acres in 

 extent ; and as it is used as a place of deposit for ashes and other rubbish from 

 Sheerness, I fear that the time is not far disinut when Pogonus luridipennis and 

 other Carabidm will be things of the past, as far as this locality is concerned. I may 

 add that I have some P. luridipennis to spare for friends. — James J. Walkeb, 23, 

 Ranelagh Road, Sheerness : May loth, 1896. 



Quedius riparius, Kellner, in Inverness-shire.— I have a specimen of this insect 

 taken by myself in September, 1893, 1 believe, in flood refuse from the River Beauly, 

 Inverness, N.B., in the neighbourhood of Beauly Castle. 1 have no actual recollec- 

 tion of capturing the beetle, but remember noticing it as something quite new to 

 me while I was setting it. Unfortunately I had no opportunity of going through 

 my Beauly captures till last Christmas, when the peculiarly long elytra and the 

 pubt'Bcciice of the insect at once pointed it out as something not previously recorded 



