1902.] 17 g 



Leptinus testaceus, Sfc, near Bradfield, Gnorimus nobilis near Toweester, and 

 Meloe brevicollis from South Devon. — Perhaps the following beetles are of sufficient 

 rarity to be worth recording. 1 have taken them myself during the last two years 

 in this neighbourhood. 



Leptinus testaceus, Mull., five specimens in December, L900, and two in March, 

 1902, in nests of the wood mouse ; Liodes orbicularis, Herbst ; Necrophorus inter- 

 ruplus, Steph. ; Bythiuus securiger, Reich. ; Saprinus virescens, Payk., the last by 

 sweeping watercress ; Cryptarcha strigata, ¥., at a Cossus infected tree ; Phytwcia 

 cylindrica, L. ; Cry otocephalus bipunctatus, L., C. coryli, L., several by beating 

 whitethorn in June ; Malthodes atomus, Thorns. ; Lytta vesicatoria, L., one speci- 

 men on a gate post. 



I also had sent to me last June from near Toweester two fine specimens of 

 Gnorimus nobilis, L., taken from dead roses. 



This April 1 took one specimen of Meloe brevicollis, Panz., on the top of the 

 cliff, Bolt Tail, in South Devon ; a most careful search in the neighbourhood re- 

 vealed no more. — Norman H. Joy, Bradfield, near Reading : June 16th, 1902. 



Coleoptera at Rannoch.— An academic holiday of three days enabled me to 

 spend the week end at Rannoch, from June 27th to 29th, and as I was lucky enough 

 to pitch upon one of our rare spells of true summer weather, 1 captured several 

 species not seen during my visit of 1900 (see Ent. Record, vol. xii, p. 288). 



In the Black Wood Cetonia fioricola, Host., was so common on a Cossus tree, 

 and so busily engaged sucking at the exuding sap, that one sweep of my hand 

 knocked about twenty into my net ; as the sun was shining brightly at the time upon 

 the glistening mass of beetles the sight was a striking one, not the tiling one expects 

 to see in a dark northern fir wood. After much wandering to and fro I came across 

 a couple of woodcutters busy felling Scotch firs ; the fresh turpentine-covered 

 stumps were very attractive to beetles, from the cracks of the bark Asemuni striatum, 

 L., was freely taken, Rhagium indagator, L., and Clerus formicarius, L., were 

 common running to and fro on the pi'ostrate trunks, while Corymbites impressus, 

 F., and I'ytho depressus, L., occurred sparingly on the stumps. 



I beat the tops of all these felled trees, but only one turned out at all satis- 

 factory ; from this came I'ogonocherus fasciculatus, De Gr., Rhinomacer attelaboides, 

 F., Rityopthorus pubescens, Marsh, (the hist two in plenty), Elatvr nigrinus, Hbst., 

 Salpingils castaneus, Pz., &c. Sweeping was not very productive, the best insects 

 being Halyzia 16-guttata, L., Telephorus paludosus, Fall., Tropiphorus mercurialis, 

 F., Rolydrusus undatus, F., Luperus Jlavipes, L., and llydrolhassa aucta, F. 



My visit was too hurried a one to allow time to work the moss or fallen logs, 

 and I was too late for Aslynomus adilis ; the woodmen told me this beetle, so well 

 known to them, had been excessively scarce this season, probably due to the bitterly 

 cold and inclement weather which prevailed all through Scotland till past Mid- 

 summer day. While cycling over from Struan station I obtained a fine specimen 

 of Ancistronycha abdominalis, F., resting on a pine fence a mile or two from the 

 station. — T. Hudson Bkabe, 10, Regent Terrace, Edinburgh : July 9th, 1902. 



Coleoptera, <.J'c, at Greenhithe and Charing, Kent. — A couple of days' collecting 

 at the end of May in the Greenhithe district (which is mainly one of orchards, 



