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ago. Adelops WoUastoni, as usual, literally aboundrd ; I several times found ten 

 or fifteen specimens, and in one case over thirty, in a single potato. Of Anommatus 

 12-striattis I could only find a single example ; but very few of the decaying seed 

 potatoes were in the right condition ; it likes them dry and almost powdery. Oxyte^us 

 insecatus was abundant, in wet and spongy seed ; I used to take it singly, and 

 I do not think that it is generally plentiful anywhere, but this time I succeeded in 

 taking over fifty examples, of which nearly twenty came from a single potato. 

 RMzophagus perforatus, of which 1 had previously taken a single specimen in 

 this way, was also present in some numbers. Of Falagria thoracica, which I used 

 to take abundantly, I got one ; but I think that I was rather too late for it. 

 My best capture, however, was the very remarkable Langelandia anophthalma, 

 which had previously only been taken in my own garden at St. Peter's (half a mile 

 distant), where I discovered it in 1886 ; I could only find three examples, but it was 

 most satisfactory to ascertain that the insect is still in its old locality. It lives in 

 the drier seed, is exceedingly sluggish — in striking contrast to Adelops — and is very 

 easily overlooked. 



Earlier in the year (May 2nd) I picked up a specimen of the rare Meloe rugosus 

 as it was crawling in the road close to the same garden, and almost on the identical 

 spot where I took my other example of the insect on December 1st, 1887. I 

 searched the immediate neighbourhood for further specimens without success. — 

 Theodore Wood, 23, Brodrick Road, Upper Tooting, S.W. : September 2\st, 1896. 



Lyctus hrunneus, Steph., at Wandsworth. — About a year ago I was consulted by 

 one of our parishioners, living on the Wandsworth side of Wandsworth Common, with 

 reference to a table in her drawing room, which was perforated by some small wood- 

 boring beetle. I asked her, if possible, to capture a specimen and let me see it ; and 

 accordingly, early in July, the insect arrived. To my great surprise and delight it 

 proved to be an example of Lyctus hrunneus, which I do not think has been recorded 

 since Mr. S. Stevens turned it up at Norwood in 1879 and the two following years. 

 I at once posted off to the house, and furtlier investigation resulted in the capture 

 of seven more specimens. — Id. 



Coleoptera in the Plymouth dis^ric^.— Having omitted to note in the Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. any of my captures as they have occurred since December, 1894, I now send a 

 brief account of those most worthy of mention : — 



Elaphrus uliginosus, six specimens, in company with E. cupreus, by " treading " 

 boggv ground around a rivulet ; the latter swarmed, but E. uliginosus only came at 

 the rate of one specimen for upwards of an hour's work, whilst Stenu.s Ouynemeri (1), 

 Lathrohium angustatum (1), and one or two decent Hemiptera were all that relieved 

 the intervals. In shingle and in the river bed near at hand, dried up by the drought 

 of the past summer, Bembidium punctulatum, B. atrocmruleum, and commoner 

 species swarmed, whilst B. monticola was frequently found by loosening the ground 

 at the junction of the shingly sand with the soil proper in the banks. Coccinella 

 5-puncfata was also not rare in the shingle. By " treading " in the decaying leaves 

 at the edge of a stagnant pool Ocalea latipennis and 0. castanea were freely taken ; 

 O. badia, a single specimen, in moss on a stone. In moss on boulders in the middle 



