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plantations, and hop-gardens, intersected by apparently interminable lanes) produced, 

 amongst commoner species, single specimens of Bembidium ^-striatum and Amara 

 consular is, the former running on a path, the latter under a stone ; a good series of 

 Bembidium don's at the sides of a pond, and plenty of Aphthona venustula, and a 

 few Pxylliodes dulcamara by sweeping their respective food-plants. I also got a 

 number of Liparus coronatus by searching Anthriscus sylvestris, on which it lives ; 

 they were buried in the soft earth at the roots of the plants, two or three to each 

 root. A welcome capture was a specimen of Otiorrhynchus raucus, swept from a 

 mass of Lamium album at the side of a field. Amongst a number of Phyllobius 

 oblongus I was interested to find an individual with the left deciduous mandible 

 remaining ; this is broader, and at the same time more sharply pointed at apex than 

 those of the specimen of Trachyj/hlwus myrmecophilus, which I exhibited at a 

 meeting of the Entomological Society in October last, and is armed with a distinct 

 tooth on the inner side near base. It is known that these appendages differ in 

 shape, length, &c, in the various genera which possess them, and I think that 

 British Coleopterists might well keep a look out for specimens retaining them, so 

 that these variations might be noted. At any rate, these deciduous mandibles 

 represent a portion of the life-history of the species, and specimens in which one or 

 both are intact should have an additional value, from that point of view, to any one 

 fortunate enough to come across them. 



Amongst the Heteroptera, the handsome Lygseids, Aphanus Rolandri and A. 

 pedestris, were not uncommon under refuse and running in the lanes, and I also 

 swept three specimens of Ey.sarcoris melanocephalus from umbels. 



At the end of June I had the pleasure of a day's collecting with Mr. A. J. 

 Chitty on the chalk hills above the village of Charing. The weather was warm 

 and sunny, and there having been rain the previous evening insects were about in 

 some numbers. Amara patricia and Panag&us quadripustulalus turned up singly 

 under stones, and a pair of Rhi iwncus denticollis close to a small Erodium plant. 

 Tychius Schneideri was not uncommon on Anthyllis, and a few of another species, 

 apparently T. tomentosus, occurred about the roots of various small plants, in which 

 situations also the sluggish and inconspicuous Trachypklceus alternans and T. 

 squamulatus were not rare. From some stunted hazel bushes we were delighted to 

 get a series each of Cryptucephalus lineola, a really beautiful insect as it sits on the 

 leaves in the sunshine. In some woods a short distance away I was glad to meet 

 with Apoderus coryli for the first time ; it was by no means common, and in Mr. 

 Chitty's experience has always been a scarce insect in his neighbourhood. I noticed 

 one individual on chestnut ; this may have been accidental, but in view of the 

 recent records of Attelabus having taken to this tree I have thought it ju6t worth 

 mentioning. — F. B. Jennings, 15, Silver Street, Upper Edmonton, N. : July 

 12th, 1902. 



Coleoptera in Miller's Dale. — I have recently taken a good series of the fol- 

 lowing Coleoptera in Miller's Dale, in my district : Ancistronycha abdominal is, 

 Podabrus alpinus, and Phyllobius viridicollis. Should these be desiderata to any 

 of our brother Coleopterists I shall be glad to distribute them as far as my dupli- 

 cates will allow. — J. Kidson Taxlok, 2, South Terrace, South Avenue, Buxton ; 

 July 10th, 1902. 



