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there is a female example of this species wanting the reddish-yellow margin to 

 the thorax and elytra ; it has the outer limb of the latter brassy, and of the 

 same colour as the head, thorax, and scutellum, and the rest of the elytra 

 greenish. Fowler states that varieties of both H. aucta, F., and H. marginella, 

 L., occur rarely with obscure side-margins, but I have never seen an example of 

 either of these species tlms coloured. Weise notices a form of H. aucta (var. 

 a, glabra, Herbst) with the outer limb of the elytra piceo-isneous ; but the only 

 variety of H. marginella described by him is nigro-cceruleous with the margins 

 of the elytra yellowish-red. Mr. Bullock's specimen was taken from moss last 

 January. — G. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking : September 12th, 1914. 



Lsemophlwus ater, 01., in pine and beech. — This species, as far as my experi- 

 ence goes, is usually found in stems of furze or broom, in burrows of Phlceoph- 

 thorus, but this year T have taken it from beneath beech bark at Guildford and 

 from pine at Chobham. It is evident, therefore, that L. ater accompanies more 

 than one genus and species of Scolytidie. In 1898, Mr. Lloyd and myself found 

 it in abundance in furze at Chilbolton, Hants (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1898, p. 113), and 

 I have also recorded it from beech, from Spain. — G. C. Champion. 



A few Coleoptera, fyc, from Grey well, Hants. — My friend Mr. Barton has 

 recorded several interesting beetles from this locality (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1910, 

 p. 190). The following additional species have since been captured at the same 

 place by Mr. Barton, my son, or myself. Odacantha melanura, Oodes helopioides, 

 Silis ruficollis, Anthocomus rufus, Ceuthorrhynchus nasturtii, Cionus tuberculosus, 

 Apion vicinum, Hypocyptus discoideus, Stilbus oblongus, Haltica lythri, Liburnia 

 longipennis. Some of these insects were captured during a joint unprofitable 

 excursion on August 29th. The marshy ground where these species occur is 

 suggestive of the fens, and this is exemplified by the presence of the Anthocomus 

 and Silis. — G. C. Champion. 



Dryophihis anobioides, Chevr., near Brandon, Suffolk. — My friends Messrs. 

 Claude Morley and Ernest Elliott found this rare species at Palmer's Heath, 

 near Brandon, in June last. It occurred in some numbers by beating fir 

 boughs about nine feet from the ground ; few specimens were taken owing to 

 its having been unfortunately mistaken in the field for the common D. pusillus. 

 Gyll., this latter being frequent here. The disparity in size of the specimens 

 was most remarkable, even for the Anobiidse, and did not depend on sex, the 

 smaller male specimens being less than half the length of the larger. Mulsant 

 (Op. Ent. XIII, 1863) states that the insect is found on Pinus sylvestris, which 

 the above capture confirms.— E. A. Newbery, 13, Oppidans Eoad, N.W. : Sept- 

 ember 9th, 1914. 



Quedius puncticollis, Thorns., accompanying Lasius fuliginosus, Latr. — I have 

 on several occasions recently taken Quedius puncticollis, Thorns. — a well-known 

 denizen of wasps' nests — with Lasius fuliginosus, near Cothill, Berks, under 



