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but rather to the fact that the locality is an unusuallj rich one in these beetles. In 

 all we recorded 240 species of Coleoptera between April 15th and 29th, when we 

 left Dover.— Claude Mokley, Ipswich : June, 1896. 



Coleoptera at Eastbourne (and Polegate), Sussex. — The same modus operandi was 

 pursued at Eastbourne as at Dover, but here we made our best captures under the 

 great lumps of chalk bordering the fields at the base of the downs. Stiliciis rufipes, 

 Conurus pubescens and C. immaculatus, Eumicrus tarsatus, Exomias brunnipes, and 

 Stomis pumicaLus (commoner than at Dovei'), were taken in such a situation. I 

 picked up Philonthus quisquilarius , var. dimidiatus, on the golf links on May 5th, 

 and sweeping just below Beachy Head produced Hypocyptus longicornis, Ceuthor- 

 rhynchus quadridens, Anthonomus rubi, two or three Psylliodcs chrysocephala, with 

 Phyllotreta nigripes and P. atra abundantly, &c. 



On May 9th I went to Polegate and took at the Abbot's Wood, where, however, 

 things were scarcely yet in full force, a few Pkilonthus ? umbratilis on the margin 

 of a pond, with Stenus providus, var. Rogeri, Heterocerus fusculus, and a few Praso- 

 curis aucta. But few insects fell to the umbrella ; the best being Haplocnemus 

 nigricornis (1), Dasytes plumbeo-niger, Orchestes ilicis, Haltica palustris, Magdalinus 

 cerasi, and Balaninus nucum were also secured. Crepidodera aurata fell in showers, 

 and very pretty the tiny drops of metallic red, green, and bronze looked in the 

 sunshine. From horse dung in a narrow path overhung by trees in the wood I 

 found Aphodius sticticus in abundance, with one or two Onthophagus ccenobita and 

 0. ovatus. — Id. 



XyJetinus ater in Herefordshire. — On Sunday Afternoon, May 24th, on a gate 

 post close to Burghill Church, I noticed three beetles of Anobium aspect, but black 

 and striated, so as to convince me I was not familiar with them. They appeared to 

 be a female newly emerged and two males which she had attracted, and with one of 

 whom she assumed connubial relationship during the few seconds that I observed 

 them. Determining them to be Xyletinus ater, I sent them, however, to Canon 

 Fowler for certainty, and as he expressed a desire to know more about them, I again 

 visited the post. It is a not very old oak post, in which the beetles have completed 

 the destruction of a slip of sapwood which is now beginning to rot. Their burrows 

 are rather large, but of Anobium irregularity. I found one still in the wood, and 

 one on the surface of the post. From the commencing rottenness of the wood, and 

 the absence of any larvse or other beetles, there is no doubt the whole brood has now 

 emerged, possibly many of them last season. — T. A. Chapman, Firbank, Hereford : 

 Mat/, 1896. 



JEmus hirtus, L., at Sittingbourne, Kent. — Mr. J. J. Walker, of Sheerness, has 

 kindly been assisting me in the arrangement of our school collections of Coleoptera, 

 etc. ; he says that we ought to record in the Ent. Mo. Mag. the capture on May 30th 

 by my friend Rupert Dering and myself of a very fine female specimen of Emus 

 hirtus feeding in horse dung in the Park here. — A. S. Cabr, Gore Court School, 

 Sittingbourne : June, 1896. 



[This very rare beetle has occurred in several places in Kent and Surrey, but its 

 chief locality appears to be the New Forest ; the specimen above mentioned is the 

 first that has been recorded for a long period. — W. W. F.]. 



