40 '^"ly 



diehroiis ; of this I have taken at various times nearly three dozen, always flying, 

 nor have I ever succeeded in finding it otherwise ; this species occurs from 5 to 7 

 p.m. in spring. 



About the same time, viz., 5 to 7 p.m., the following have occurred to me : — 

 Philonthus villosulus, procendiis, agilis, sangidnolentus, &c., &c. ; Lithocliaris 

 ochracea and melanocephala ; many species of Homalhim, &c. ; also Eiiplectus 

 signatus and sanguineus, Euthia plicata, and Colon angulare and hrunneum ; these 

 usually fly after 6 p.m., together with Agathidlum nigripenne, and various others of 

 the section; nor must I ovait Epurcea parvula, pusilla, &r\A oblonga, Rhizophagus 

 dispar and cribratus, Pediacus depressus, and Silvanus tmidentatus, together with 

 many of the Cryptophagidce. 



Still later, say about 9 p.m., usually in autumn, Helops aim and P. Stepliensii ; 

 and a little earlier, about 8, Salpingus ater and castanetis, Lissodema Heyana, 

 Orclies'm minor, HaJlomenus humeralis , Lyctns canaliculatus, &c. 



But it is useless extending the list further; what I have named will show, that 

 given a quick eye and a suitable locality (an old wood yard is a fine place), assisted 

 by a small gauze net, many additions can be made to a collection which are rarely 

 otherwise obtainable. — A. Reston, Park House, Stretford, Manchester : April, 1886. 



^gialia riifa, Fab. — Saturday, June 5th, being a bright, warm day, I went to 

 the Wallasey Sandhills to look for ^. rufa, and was not disappointed. It appears 

 to be very local, as it is almost entirely confined to one part of the sands. Can any 

 Coleopterist inform me whether it has ever occurred in Britain anywhere, except on 

 the Cheshire coast ? — R. Wilding, 40, Downing Street, Liverpool : June, 1886. 



Barypeithes pellucidus. Boh., near Margate. — -I have lately discovered this 

 species in great profusion upon the shore between Broadstairs and Margate. The 

 first specimens, which I did not recognise at the time, I found beneath stones, 

 generally in couples. After working a few square yards of ground, however, I came 

 upon the beetle in abundance, taking as many as fifteen from one small hole. The 

 majority were lying fully exposed upon the sand, some feigning death, and others 

 leisurely strolling along. How they came to be there I could not find out. I took 

 nearly five hundred in all, and could easily have taken as many again ; on passing 

 by the spot three days later, however, scarcely a specimen was to be seen. — Theodore 

 Wood, St. Peter's, Kent : June \Uh, 1886. 



Melanism in Hibernia progemmaria and Diurnea fagella. — Until the spring of 

 this year, I suppose it must be towards twenty years since I went out to collect 

 Sibernia progemmaria. For several years, however, in consequence of tlie number 

 of specimens of the very dark form known as VAviety fuscata, which I had seen and 

 heard of in the district, I had suspected the form had become much counnoner than 

 it used to be ; so, to satisfy myself on the matter, on the evening of the 2nd of April, 

 and again in the afternoon of the day following, I paid a visit to an elm plantation, 

 bordered on one side with a hawthorn hedge, where I used to find my darkest 

 specimens. The result more tlian confirmed my suspicion, for the dark specimens 

 were not only in much greater propoi-tion, but considerably darker than I had ever 

 noticed them before. What we used to call " black females" formerly, had always, 



