0(]f) [Novembfr, 



ochracens Knoch (several) flying in the siiii.shine, and Cardiophorus erichmni 

 n?uyss. {!?>) by sweeping long grass ; Cdthormiocerus maritiinus Rye (12), 

 *T7-achyphloen)i laticollis Boh. (13), and T. myrmecopJiilus Seidl. (24) at roots 

 of herbage ; Polydrusus cJiri/somela 01, one on Asparagus Island ; Barypithes 

 sulcifrons Boh. (a few); Sitones waterhonsei Walt, (one only); Smicronj/x 

 junyermanniae (18); *Amalns haeinorrhous Herbst {scortillum) (10); Ceuth. 

 diuvsuni Bris. (abundant) ; C. teninmififs Herbst (one) ; C. nasturtii Germ. ((>) ; 

 Meciiiiis circiilat us ^la.ifi\i. (one) ; ^Si/ntiin soilnh's Germ, (tliree worn exani]iles) ; 

 * Ty chins piisU his Germ, (pyymneus Bris.) (one) ; OrthocJiaetcs setioev Beck (Ci), 

 O. insiynis Aube (2); Cassida scmyuinohnta F. (1), and C. nvbilis L. in 

 abundance on Sdene. 



1 am indebted to Mr. G. C. Champion and Mr. E. A. Newbery for l<iiid 

 hel]i in determining critical species for me, and to Mr. N. Mickiewood for 

 as.sistance in collecting. Names marked with an asteri.sk are, I believe, 

 additions to tlie county list of Cornwall.— James li. Kkys, 7 Whimple Street, 

 Plymouth : October \Wi, 1919. 



Jiayons Jiitulosus in Ghnnorydn avd Berlis. — Dr. Sharp (Ent. ^NFo. Macr. 

 1917, p. 10(5) speaks of this as a rare species in Britain. It moy thf-refore 

 be worth wliile recording that I took several examples last Ivisler on tlie 

 Llanmadoc sandhills, Glaniorgansliiie, in small -'pockets," dug \)\ rabbits. 

 I have also a single one from Oxwich liay in the i^anie county, l^ast .Tuly 

 ]Mr. P. Ilarwood discovered it in a fallow tield at Barkham near Wokiiigliam, 

 and .subsequentlv I took it there in numbers. The field had been ])louglied 

 and then allowed to go fallow, and water had evidently been standing in the 

 fuiTOWS. When we visited the groutid it was covered with a profusion (d" 

 herbage, and the Bayous occurred under various plants with a marked 

 preference for the loots of Jinicus Imfoiiius. Nearly all the beetles were 

 unusinilly clean and " un-muddy." — J. P. i.E B. Tomlin, Peading ; Oc/ober 

 Jofh, 1919. 



Flnfi/pns cyh'ndnis in Worcestershire. — In October 1918, I found a large 

 colouv of this beetle in an oak root on the outskirts of the Wyre Forest. 

 The burrows, of which there must have been some hundreds in the root, were 

 continued through the earth which was still adhering in places, and as the 

 beetles were at the mouth of the burrow there was no difficulty in obtaining 

 specimens. The in.sects were .still working in June of this year. This siunmer 

 two or three examples have begun burrows in a walnut-log in my garden, 

 but in no case do the burrows seem to have made much progress, and I have 

 found two or three dead beetles just outside the entrance. Perhaps tlie wood 

 is not as suitable as oak. In the same log are a number of colonies of 

 Xylehoriis dryoyraphus, with here and there a burrow of A', dispar. Of the 

 latter I found six or seven females, with one male, while of the former some 

 sixty females were examined, with only one male. Apparently parasitic on 

 X. dryoyrn2)hiis were Laemophloens bimcicnlatus and ferrHyinens. I Avas not 

 able to trace the connection absolutely, but L. bintaculatus wiis found only in 

 the immediate neighbourhood of the burrows, which themselves were confined 

 to a very small part of the log, just at the point where the bark was d\iug. 



