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Wicken Fen. — The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural 

 Beauty have now made arrangements for the appointment of a watcher for 

 their property in Sedge Fen, Wicken, Cambridgeshire. Applications for per- 

 mission to visit this property should be addressed to A. H. Evans, Esq., 

 Secretary of the Local Committee, 9, Harvey Road, Cambridge ; or to 

 S. H. Hamer, Esq., The Secretary of the National Trust, 25, Victoria Street, 

 London, S.W. — S. H. Hamer, Secretary : April 24th, 1914. 



Timarcha punctata, Laich. -an introductian by commerce. — On October 16th 

 and again on November 4th, I picked up a Timarchid beetle on the road near 

 my house. It was obviously neither of our British species, and so, in the 

 absence of a good reference library or museum, I sent it to my friend, 

 Mr. W. E. Sharp. He passed it on to Mr. Newbery, who named it from the 

 British Museum collection as Timarcha punctata, Laich. It hails from Tripoli, 

 Tunis, and Marocco, and had probably, as I at first suspected from the fact that 

 Timarchid species are common in North Africa., been introduced in esparto 

 grass for use in the local paper mill. It seems probable that a search in the 

 stores of this material would reveal a number of other beetles from the chotts 

 of the Atlas region.- Geo. B. Walsh, 166, Bede Burn Road: May, 1914. 



Aquatic Coleoptera in Cumberland. - There appears to be but one record of 

 the occurrence of Deronectes latus in Cumberland, and that refers to its capture 

 near Lanercost, in 1855. I took a single specimen of this beetle last month 

 (April) in a small beck which nrns into the Oaldew, near Cummersdale, Carlisle. 

 Its reappearance after sixty years is of some interest. 



In the "Transactions of the Carlisle Natural History Society," Mr. F. H. Day 

 refers to an old record of Hydrsena nigrita from the Caldew, but doubts 

 authenticity as modern collectors have not found the beetle in Cumberland, 

 am glad to add some confirmatory evidence for this record. I took Hydra 

 nigrita from the same beck as Deronectes latus, again a, single specim 

 Hydrsena gracilis and Platambus maculatus also occurred. Mr. Balfour Brovt 

 has kindly confirmed the identity of these specimens. — H. H. Wallis, Trent 

 College, Derbyshire : May, 1910. 



Proteinus crenulatus, Pand., in Cumberland. — As supplementary to the 

 records of this beetle in this Magazine, ante, p. 92, I may state that I have a 

 specimen in my collection taken within the boundary of the City of Carlisle. 

 It was taken last March from hedge cuttings which had laid over winter in a 

 lane. In addition to the middle tibias being strongly crenulate, the lower 

 halves of the hind tibiae are also crenulated. — Jas. Murray, 2, Balfour Road, 

 Carlisle : April 11th, 1914. 



Early emergence of Dicranura bifida. — On April 19th I found a newly- 

 emerged J Dicranura bifida on the trunk of a poplar at Cookham. — C. G 

 Doughty, 12, Woodstock Street, Oxford Street, W. : April 20th, 1914. 



