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A Stylopid attracted by light.— It might interest readers of the Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. to know that I recently captured a male Stylopid, at night, in an acetylene 

 gas moth trap. It corresponds almost exactly to the figure of Elenehus tenuicomit 

 (Westwood's Classification of Insects, vol. ii, p. 288, fig. 'J 1—1). — E. Kunk.st 

 Gkern, Peradeniya, Ceylon : July 2Hth, 1902. 



Coleoptera, Sfc, at Woking. — The following species have been captured here 

 this summer in addition to those already recorded, antea p. 134: — Anchomenus 

 quadripunctatus, one specimen running on a pine stump, May 31st; Badister 

 pelt at us, singly, in a damp place, not previously seen by me in this district ; Bern- 

 Odium doris and B. obliquum ; Homalota scapularis and Tachinus scapularis, by 

 sweeping; Medon obsoletus, on the wing ; Nitidula rufipes, in dead bird; Odon- 

 tceux mobilicornis, one female example, captured on the wing in my garden by my 

 son, June 21st ; Throscus carinifrons, running on a pine stump in the evening, in 

 company with T. dermestoides ; Telephorus thoracicus ; Pissodes notatus, three 

 specimens, in two widely separated localities, May and June, a species apparently 

 spreading in the pine woods here; Ceuthorrhynchus setosus ; Sitones cambricus ; 

 Alophus triguttatus ; Stylops melitttt, eighteen specimens captured on the wing in 

 my garden, and others seen, May 24th, between 10 and 11 a.m., stylopised Andrena 

 Wilkella occurring with them; Corimelcena scarabaoides ; Ceraleptus livid us ; 

 Spathocera Dalmani, not previously seen by me in this district ; Corizus maculatus ; 

 Ploiaria culiciformis, on the wing in my garden ; Ranatra linearis, in the canal. — 

 G. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking: August lUh, 1902. 



Coleoptera from East Kent. — In my record of Coleoptera from East Kent for 

 last year (antea pp. 7 ; <-7'l) I omitted the following : — Carabus nwnili.t, P., including 

 the var. consitus, Panz., not uncommon in a little brick area sunk for the window 

 of .i cellar ; Ocypus similis, F., 0. fuscatus, Grav., Euconnus denticornis, Mull., 

 Eutheia plicata, Gyll., Liodes humeralis, ¥., and Caeliodes exiguus, 01. Also from 

 the Blean Woods : Plinthus caliginoxus, ¥., Syntotnium mneum. Mull., Clambus 

 minutus, Sturm, C. armadillo, De G., and Acalles ptinoides (3), the last mentioned 

 from the purlieus of a nest of Formica rufa. This year I have been unable so far to 

 find a single Coleopterous insect of any interest. I regret to say that my Ho»ioeusa 

 locality has been destroyed. It was really an enormous heap of stones with which 

 a small disused chalk pit had been filled, perhaps some hundreds of years ago. 

 Unfortunately the owner discovered what it was about the same time as I did, the 

 tons upon tons of stones were removed last winter to mend the roads, and ants' 

 nests and beetles are no more. — A. J. Chitty, 27, Hereford Square, S.W. : June 

 20th, 1902. 



Otiorrhynchtts blandus, Oyll., in the Isle of Man. — During a visit to the Tsle 

 of Man at the end of August, 1901, I met with a single specimen of this species on 

 the Permian sandstone cliffs on the coast to the north of Peel. 



During the present year, in April, May, June, and July, I have taken a total 

 of fifteen specimens in the neighbourhood of Port Erin : the majority occurred 

 under stones, at roots of grass, or crawling on pathways on low clay-slate cliffs at 



