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Coleoptera in the neighbourhood of Bath. — The highest ground about here is 

 Lansdown, a large flat table land of Great Oolite without trees, elevation about 800 

 feet. It is divided into fields by loose stone walls, and the stones at their bases form 

 a good collecting ground. I have taken here, amongst other things, Cychrus rostra- 

 tus, Amara bifrons and spinipes, Bradycellus dislinvtus, Trechus obtusus, Ocypus 

 fuacatus, compressus, and morio, Xantholimis tricolor and fulgidus, Olisthopus ro- 

 tundattts, Aphodius porous, Barynotus obscurus and moerens, and Otiorhynchus 

 tenebricosus in profusion. On the other side of the valley Hampton Down is not 

 80 high, but is fringed with woods ; I have found there Badister sodalis, Taphria 

 nivalis, Platyderus ruficollis, Amara rufocincta, Trechus micros, Calathus piceus, 

 Quedius nigriceps and riifipes, Sfaphylinus sfercorarius, Aphodius obliterattis , stic- 

 ticus and constayis, &c. Very near to the city is Little Solsbury, another good locality. 

 It is a round hill with a flat top, at the base of which and at some distance from its 

 sides is the Midford sand ; the Inferior Oolite then follows, above which is a bed of 

 the Fuller's-earth clay, and the Great Oolite caps the whole. On one side of it 

 is a sloping sandy field, this is the locality for the Onthophagi ; here nutans, ccenohita, 

 &ni fracticornis are common, and ovatus abounds in sheep's-dung, also Copris lunaris, 

 Philonthus puella, Aphodius depressus and porcatus, and all the commoner species. In 

 a barren field near this spot, Harpalus azureus occurs in plenty, punctatulus spar- 

 ingly, and puncticollis and Brachinus crepitans in company, but not H. rufildbris, 

 which is found freely on Lansdown. Last season I found here one Lebia chloro- 

 eephala, also about twenty specimens of Pterostichus picimanus in a damp field on 

 the clay near. In fields in the valley Anisodactylus hinotatus occurs abundantly ; 

 Pterostichus anthracinus commonly, and many others more or less so, but I may 

 mention Stilicus geniculatus, Magdalinus harbicornis and Priobium castaneum, the 

 last rather freely. Oyrvnus marinus abounds in the canal, and with it I took eighty 

 specimens of urinator and one bicolor in a corner ; G. natator is common in ponds. 

 Haliplus cinereus occurs freely at Bitton Paper Mill, and H. flavicollis in the canal. 

 — EoBEET GiLLO, 16, Lambridge Place, Bath : October, 1886. 



Note on Scotch Coleoptera. — Early in October I found Aepus marinus and 

 Micralymma brevipenne on the banks of the Forth at Culross, N. B., in the greatest 

 profusion, and on the Moors near, Acidota crenata ; on the Pentlands, Bradycellus 

 collaris occurred commonly, and on Arthur's Seat I took Agathidium rotundatum and 

 convexum. — A. Beaumont, 30, Ladywell Park, Lewisham, S.E. : November, 1886. 



Cafius fucicola in Scotland. — I have this year met with Cafius fucicola in its 

 old Scottish locality, Dalmeny Park, on the shores of the Frith of Forth. Dr. 

 Sharp, in his Catalogue of Scottish Coleoptera (Scottish Naturalist, ii., p. 379), casts 

 great doubt on the authenticity of the record by the Rev. Mr. Little in Muri'ay's 

 Catalogue ; but it is undoubtedly /McicoZa. — E. F. Logan, Colinton, Midlothian : 

 November 10th, 1886. 



Sphinx convolvuli in the Isle of Purbeck. — As S. convolvuli, after appearing in 

 such exceptional numbers last year, seems to have been decidedly scarce this season, 

 it may perhaps be worth while recording the fact that I captured a specimen near 



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