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up on the young aspens ; Crepidodera helxines L. and C. aurata Marsh, were 

 also very abundant there, and one specimen of C. nitidula L. was taken. 

 Cdssida viridis F. was extraordinarily abundant, locally, wherever there were 

 tliistles, and Pi/rochroa serraticornis Scop, was seen frequently. Byctiscus 

 ptipnli L. was not uncommon on aspens at Erickett Wood ; I also found one 

 Oymnetron antirrhini Payk. ; wliilst among many common species of Ceuthor- 

 rliynchina, C. melanostictus Marsh, was taken on Mentha, also Poophagus 

 sisi/mbrii F. and one P. nasturtii Germ., the identification of the latter having 

 been kindly confirmed for me b}' Mr. O. E. Jauson. The PoojyJiagi were taken 

 in September in a backwater of the saiall river Ver, a spot which would almost 

 certainly repay further search for aquatic weevils. Among the Svolytinae, 

 Seolytus destructor 01, and Hylesinus fraxini Panz. were abundant, the only 

 other species met with being Dryocoetes villosus F, — C. T. Gimingham, Long 

 Asliton, nr. Bristol : June I5th, 1919. 



Platyrrhinus latirostris F. at Long Ashton, Somerset. — This interesting 

 beetle has recently turned up in a rather derelict wood, not three miles from 

 Bristol. A single specimen was met with on June 1st, on the bark of a dead 

 tree, where, in spite of the size of tlie insect, its mottled appearance, har- 

 monising almost perfectly with tlie background, made it very dKRcult to see. 

 Further search on June 3rd led to the discovery of two more examples, a male 

 and female, in the black fungus (Daldinia concentrlo.a~) on a decaying ash-tree — 

 its usual habitat. The black fungus also yielded Diphyllus lunatus F. in plenty, 

 and several species of Mycetophagus. Thanasimus formicarius L. was found 

 in some numbers running on the trunks of trees or in crevices of the bark. 

 Most of the localities given by Fowler (Coleopt. Brit. Isls. vol. v, p. 112) for 

 Platyrrhiwus are in the western counties : it is also recorded in the Victoria 

 County History of Somerset as having been taken at Batheaston, and Porlock 

 is given as another locality in the Supplement to Fowler's work. — 

 C. T. Gimingham : June \Oth, 1919. 



[On the two occasions on which I have come across Platyrrhinus in 

 numbers on the Continent — at Vizzavona (Corsica) and Moncayo (Spain) — 

 it was in fungus on dead beeches. Its habit of shamming death makes it 

 difficult to detect amongst debris, the uniformly greyish pubescence of the 

 under surface giving the insect a very dift'erent appearance when seen from 

 beneath. This beetle is also recorded as having been found in fungus on alder 

 and birch, so that it seems rather strange that in Britain it apparently prefers 

 iish.— G. C. C] 



Note on a ditrh form of Liopns nebulosus Linn. — My friend Mr. II. Campion 

 has just shown me a large blackish form of this common Ijongicorn that lie 

 liad found on his coat while resting under some beech trees in Kew Gardens on 

 June 14th. Some years ago Mr. B. G. Rye gave me a similar example, one of 

 several captured by him in the New Forest. In these insects the grey mottling 

 of the elytra is reduced to a very narrow line along the suture and lateral 

 margin and a patch on the outer purt of the disc at about the middle, and the 

 basal joint of the antennae is almost wholly bl ^ck. Pic has named two pale 

 varieties of the same species, but I cannot find any record of Mr. Rye's insect. — 

 G. C. Champion, Horsell : June ISf-A, 1919. 



