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413) it lias hitherto only occurred north of the Cheviots.* Mr. Newbery and M. 

 Fauvel have kindly confirmed the identification. The close and strong punctuation 

 of O. septentrionis readily separates it from O. rivu/are. — Frank II. Day, 17, 

 Thirlmore Street, Carlisle : October 7th, 1002. 



Metallites marginatus, Steph., on birches near Henley-on-Thames. — In my 

 account of this species (Col. Brit. Islands, v, 108) I have said that it occurs on broom 

 and juniper, and also that " the species has recently been found in France on the 

 birch." On April 21th last I began to beat some young birches in a wood which 

 were only just bursting into leaf, and found this insect in great profusion ; a little 

 later, when the leaves were fully out, it was much scarcer, and its place was 

 apparently taken by Polydrusus cervinus. I never found tho species until I came 

 to this locality ; here, in the early spring, it appears to be the commonest of the 

 Curculionidee. — W. W. Fowler, Kotherfield Peppard Rectory, Henley-on-Thames : 

 September \7th, 1002. 



Saperda scalaris. L., at Bretby Park, Derbyshire. — Canon Cruttwell has asked 

 me to record the capture of a specimen of Saperda scalaris by Mr. N. E. E. 

 Frampton in Bretby Park, Derbyshire. I once took a freshly emerged specimen in 

 Robin's Wood, which is only two or three miles from Bretby, and the late Mr. W. 

 G. Blatch recorded the species in 18S0 from Sherwood Forest ; these are the only 

 Midland records of the species, which has been chiefly found in the Manchester 

 district, where it has been taken in some numbers ; it has also occurred in the 

 Northumberland and Durham district.— Id. : September \%th, 1002. 



Otiorrhynchus ligustici, L., at Matlock. — In " The Coleoptera of the British 

 Islands," vol. v, p. 178, I have quoted a record sent me by Mr. Chappell of the 

 capture of Otiorrhynchus ligustici at Matlock. Mr. Kidson Taylor lias lately 

 written to me saying that he can confirm this record, as he took a specimen last 

 July by sweeping in a field not far from the town, which was carpeted with 

 Anthyllis. I have only seen one living example of this very rare weevil, and this 

 I took at the roots of Anthyllis near Sandown, Isle of Wight, some years ago. — 

 Id. : October 10th, 1002. 



Nabis brevis, Scholtz, and other Hemiptera at Woking. — On the 30th of 

 last August I re-visited the locality where I captured a single $ of tho above 

 species on August 25th, 1900 (see Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxvi, p. 227), and was rewarded 

 by two more of the same sex. I returned to the same spot again on September 20th 

 and 25th and captured several of both sexes, as well as about a dozen of Corizus 

 maculatus, Fiob.,a few C. parumpunctatus, Schill., Picromerus bidens, Linn., Cymus 

 melanocephalus, Thamnotettix cruentata, Pz., T. crocea, H.-S., and Gargara genista, 

 F. The locality lies along the side of the Woking Canal between Byfleet and its 

 junction with the Wey Navigation ; all the three extremely closely allied species of 

 the little section of Nabis, to which brevis belongs, occur here, rugosus, L., and 

 brevis, Scholtz, on the more grassy parts, ericetorum, Scholtz, on the adjoining 

 heather ; and yet each of these three species exhibits characters in the net whereby 



* 0. septentrionis has been recorded by Blatch from Knowle, Warwickshire [Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 xxvi, p. 37 (1890)].-G. C. O. 



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