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Near this marsh is a row of pollard willows, many partially or wholly rotten. 

 In one of these I was fortunate in faking, in June, three specimens of Opi/o mollis, 

 as well as Dorcatoma chrysomelina ; Melanotus rujipes and Leiopus nebulosus 

 also occurred here during the summer. From a decayed oak post hard by I was 

 very pleased to extract the rare Lyctus brunneus. 



In this district, but nearer Southall. are many deserted brickfields. Here, on 

 heaps of loose rubbish, grows the yellow melilot (Melilotus officinalis), and the 

 ground is carpeted with Matricaria inodora. From the former I swept Tyckius 

 meliloti in abundance, and at its roots found the variable Sitones meliloti not 

 rarely, but searched in vain for the Apion attached to that plant, while, from the 

 Matricaria, Pseudostyphlus pilumnus was to be swept without difficulty. 



A few years ago the Brent river for some miles of its course must have been a 

 pretty enough stream " with many a silvery water break above the golden gravel," 

 but it had an ugly trick of sudden flood after winter rains, and since the drowning 

 of a wayfarer in one of these risings, its banks have been annually straightened, the 

 bed deepened, and the bars of sand and gravel all cleared away. Such operations 

 are of course much to the detriment of its riparian Coleoptera, and I can only note 

 a few of the common Bembidia as at all abundant there. I took, however, one 

 specimen of B. obliquum on a little patch of shingle, and on the mud more 

 commonly Tachyusa jlavitarsis, T. concolor, and Trogophlceus elongatulus. 

 Alliaria officinalis still grows abundantly on its banks, and from its flowers in 

 April were swept Ceuthorrhynchus alliaria, C. constrictus, C. rugulosus, and 

 C. melanostictus. 



If you follow the upward course of the stream for a few miles you arrive at its 

 source, the artificial lake of Hendon. Here, in a little swampy meadow beneath the 

 great south wall of the reservoir, I'oophagus sisymbrii was common in June, and I 

 also took Ceuthorrhynchus cochlearice, Telephorus lateralis, and Litodactylus 

 leucogaster. 



The banks of this lake are a well-known locality for several local Coleoptera, 

 but they are difficult to work when the water is low, as it was all last summer. On 

 the single occasion on which I visited them with my friend, Mr. E. C. Bcdwell, we 

 took only one specimen of Chlwnius nigricornis, but found Bembidium Jlavo- 

 maculatum, B. lampros, var. velox, B. bipunctatum, and Stenolophus vespertinus 

 fairly common, Heterocerus Icevigatus abundant, and took a few specimens each 

 of Philonthus atratus and Actobius procerulus. 



" Ledsham," Hanwell, W. : 

 January, 1902. 



Tachys paroulus, Dej., in the New Forest. — A specimen of this rarity was 

 taken last June by my friend Mr. H. Heasler on some sphagnum, on the edge of a 

 wet low-lying piece of land just beyond Emery Down, Lyndhurst. It occurred in 

 company with Cryptobium and other common bog insects. This is an interesting 

 capture, as the insect has hitherto only been taken on the coast in this country 

 (i. e., at Wallasey, Ent. Mo. Mag., xxii, 43, and at Fortscatho, Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 xxxiii, 213). The species is, however, by no means confined to the coast on the 



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