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Df/schifins angustatns in YorJcsJiire. — Last summer, at Eridlington, Yorkshire, 

 I took four specimens of a Dyschirius which I did not know, but which Mr. Cham- 

 pion has determined to be avgtisfattts fjejunus, Dawson). In company with it I 

 took two or three specimens of Bledius erraticus. It is perhaps worthy of remark, 

 that these two beetles were originally found together in the same place (Lancrcost, 

 near Newcastle), almost the only locality hitherto recorded in Britain for either. — 

 W. W. Fowler, Eepton, Burton-on-Trent : January, 1879. 



Occurrence in Britain of Sarpalus (ScyhalicusJ oilongiusculus, Dej. — I have 

 recently detected a $ example of this well-marked species amongst a large number 

 of Sarpalidce (including H. sahulicola, rotundicollis, riipicola, ptincticollis, neglectus, 

 r^ihrijies, serripes, vernalis, &c.) captured by my friend Mr. J. T. Harris on the Chesil 

 Bank, Weymouth, in May last. S. oblongiusculus (apart from its larger size and 

 the somewhat difPerent structure of its male anterior tarsi) may be at once known 

 from rupicola, cordattis, puncticollis, and others of the Ophonus section, superficially 

 resembling it, by the shape of the thorax, which is much constricted behind, with 

 the posterior angles very obtuse and almost rounded and the base nearly straight, 

 the very pubescent elytra, &c. This example agrees very well with Dejean's de- 

 scription (Dej. Spec, iv, 198), and also with continental examples of H. oblongiusculus 

 in the British Museum and my own collection, except that it is rather smaller in size ; 

 the species is tolerably common in the neighbourhood of Paris, Lyons, and other 

 parts of France, and there appears no reason why it should not extend to this 

 country, the locality already producing one or two peculiar species, as Omophbis 

 arniericB, Harpalus vernalis, &c. — G. C. Champion, 274, Walwoi'th Road, London : 

 January 8tk, 1879. 



Xotes on the Coleoptera of Chohham. — Mr. Edward Saunders {vide vol. xiii, p. 

 113 ante) gives a list of Coleoptera occurring at Chobham, and remarks that there 

 ai'e few localities better worth visiting to those interested in the Hymenoptera and 

 Hemiptera. During the past three years, I have occasionally visited the locality — 

 thanks to the kindness of Mr. Saunders, who originally guided me to the spot — and 

 I think the above remark will certainly apply equally well to the Coleoptera, the 

 neighbourhood of Chobham having produced to me some of our rarest sand-loving 

 Geodephaga. I have visited the locality at various times of the year, but more espe- 

 cially during early spring and late autumn, the latter I find by far the best for the 

 Geodopliaga. Avoiding, as much as possible, the species recorded by Mr. Saunders, 

 I note the following : — Anchomenus gracilis, common in wet Sphagnum ; Aniso- 

 dactylus binotatus, var. atricornis, sparingly in damp places on the heath, but uever 

 in company with the type ; Harpalus discoideus (both sexes), rarely, under stones 

 and at roots of heath, late autumn ; Amara infima, not uncommon under stones, &c., 

 on bare places on the heath — a species long sought after by me ; A. patricia, rarely, 

 sand-pits ; Sembidium nigricorne, rare, sandy places, certainly distinct from S. 

 lampros or its var. velox, and easily separated from that common species by its shorter 

 and more convex form, entirely black legs and antennae, &c. ; Acupalpus brunnipes, 

 rather common in wet places on the heath, apparently always on peat as at Esher ; 

 Tamils striatellus, Fairm., one or two in wet places ; Myllcena Kraatzi, Gymnusa 

 brevicollis, and Philonthus signaticornis, and nigrita (common), in wet Sphagnum ; 



