170 [January, 



among stones at low tide, but these I unfortunately lost before they 

 were identified. 



That it is very local and rare in the extreme west of Cornwall, I 

 am convinced, for during the last six or seven years I have worked the 

 shore a good deal, both about Penzance and in Diany parts of the 

 Land's End district, and I never met with it save on these two 

 occasions. There is no reason why it should be confined to the 

 Cornish coast, and we shall probably soon hear of its occurrence in 

 other districts. 



If this singular Hemipteron should turn up in some strange situa- 

 tion, it may be at once recognised by its general resemblance, roughly 

 speaking, to a medium-sized, rather narrow, bed-bug, with partially 

 developed, velvety, mottled-brown elytra, and very prominent eyes of 

 a brilliant ruby-red. 



Alphington, Exetor : 



November 2'dth, 1886. 



[The association of Aepophilus and Uraster may not indicate any 

 important significance ; but it is suggestive and decidedly worthy of 

 further investigation. — Eds.] 



COLEOPTERA AT POETLAND. 

 BY JAMES J. WALKEE, E.N., F.E.S. 



The following notes on the Coleoptera of the Isle of Portland and 

 the Chesil Beach, made while I was stationed there in H.M.S. 

 " Cherub," from June, 1885, to the beginning of last October, may be 

 worth putting on record, though the localities have already been 

 fairly well worked. It will be seen that I have been fortunate enough 

 to meet with most of the Portland specialities, although, having been 

 absent on many occasions during the above period, often for several 

 weeks together in the best part of the season, many species which 

 ought to have been taken in plenty (as Ovioplilus armerice, &c.), have 

 been found by me but rarely. A short description of the localities 

 may be of interest. 



The Isle of Portland, as it is called, though really a peninsula 

 joined to the mainland by the narrow isthmus of the Chesil Beach, is, 

 as is well known, mainly a huge mass of oolitic limestone, varying in 

 elevation from nearly 600 feet at the north end, to less than 60 

 feet at the southern extremity at Portland Bill, the slope being 

 very regular from north to south, and the surface fairly uniform, 

 except where cut up by the extensive quarries. The east and west 



