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Deilephlla livornica and Triphcena suhsequa at Hartlepool. — A collector here, 

 Mr. J. N. Lumsden, has just brought me for inspection a specimen of Deilephila 

 livornica, which was taken at the Central Marine Engine Works here (where it had 

 doubtless been attracted by the electric light) on July 15th last; it is a perfect 

 specimen, but somewhat rubbed on the wings. I was fortunate in taking a specimen 

 of Triphcena subsequa at Hesleden Dene at sugar, or at rush flowers, I am not quite 

 certain which, on July 25th last. This, so far as I am able to ascertain, is the only 

 record for the Counties of Durham and Northumberland. — J. GtArdnee, 6, Friar 

 Terrace, Hartlepool : August 12th, 1896. 



Tinea vinculella, H.-S. — As the distribution of this species in the British Islands 

 is attracting attention, it seems worth while to refer to Ent. Mo. Mag., xv (1878), 

 p. 88, where Mr. Stainton records a Tinea " allied to argentimaculella," taken by 

 me at Scilly about the beginning of August, 1877- I gave Mr. Stainton the best of 

 the specimens. They will almost certainly prove to be vinculella. — Francis Jen- 

 KiNSON, 10, Brookside, Cambridge : August 1st, 1896. 



Telephorus paludosus and Ilha(,onycha unicolor in Lancashire. — On five after- 

 noons in June and July I visited Ringley Wood, Lancashire, a locality I had not 

 previously worked for Coleoptera. Ringley Wood is situated about seven miles to 

 the north-west of Manchester, on the north side of the Irwell Valley. A railway 

 runs through the wood, and although several collieries are close to it, the trees 

 (oak, alder and willow) have not suffered ; the flora is rich, and the stream running 

 through the wood is pui-e. My most interesting captures were a series of Telephorus 

 paludosus and a single specimen of Hhagonycha unicolor. The former species 

 occurred in a limited area (a few yards in extent) of moist ground covered by long 

 sedgy grass, from which it was swept. In no other part of the wood did the species 

 occur. By thoroughly sweeping this area on June 5th, 12th and 13th, about twenty 

 specimens were obtained on each afternoon, but on June 20th, and again on July 

 7th, not one was to be met with. Together with this species from the same spot 

 occurred the single example of Mhagonycha unicolor, several Telephorus lituratus, 

 T. hamorrhoidalis, Rhagonycha testacea, R. limbata, Anthobium torquatum, various 

 Cyphons, a few Helodes minuta, H. marginata, and a few Anthicus floralis. Amongst 

 other species obtained in Ringley Wood were single examples of Liophloeus nubilus, 

 Cassida viridis, Micropeplus margarita, Dryocoetes villosus, and Antherophagus 

 pollens ; by beating oak a few specimens of Athous uiger and Corymbites querciis, v. 

 ochropterus ; by sweeping Equisetum a few Grypidius equiseti and a series of Hip- 

 puriphila Modeeri, and in Boleti on a dead tree trunk half a dozen specimens of 

 Liodes humeralis were taken. 



Telephorus paludosus is, vecovAeA in Fowler's "British Coleoptera" as having 

 been taken by Mr. Chappell at Grlossop, in Derbyshire, tliirteen miles from Man- 

 chester; there does not appear to be a record of its occurrence in Lancashire. 

 Rhagonycha unicolor is recorded in Fowler's work from Marple, in Cheshire, and in 

 Mr. Cosmo Melvill's list drawn up for the British Association Handbook for 1887 

 it is mentioned as having occurred once only at Bowdon, in Cheshii-e. Both Bowdon 

 and Marple are within fifteen miles radius from Manchester. 



