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was to be obtained in plenty at Camber. Homalium concinnum was not rare at 

 Fairlight in stack refuse. Ancyrophorus aureus (two specimens only) at Dallington 

 Forest, and *Mieralymma brevipenne under seaweed near Fairlight. 



Evening sweeping produced Anisotoma badia, dubia, Utura, *parvula (1), and 

 calcarata, the last named common and very variable ; Colenis dentipes, Cyrtusa 

 pauxilla, Hydnobius strigosus (1), Amphycillus globus, Agathidium nigrinum, Colon 

 brunneum in some small numbers, and *serripes rarely. JEpiircea decemguttata and 

 *diffusa, Cryptophagus *populi and *setulosus, ^Dryophilus pusillus (1), Clambus 

 armadillo, and Bythinus Curtisi. 



Pocadius ferrugineus was plentiful in puff balls, and Lycoperdina rare. *Hete- 

 rocerus rectus, a couple of rather doubtful specimens from Camber. 



From an old beech tree I got a few specimens of *Cryphalus fagi and plenty 

 of *Kylastes obscurus from broom stumps. Ceuthorhynchideus *horridus (1) in 

 flood refuse, and *Dawsoni not rare on Plantago at Hastings. 



Magdalinus *pruni and cerasi, Liosomus oblongulus, *Polydrosus chrysomela 

 (Camber), Cryptocephalus Hineola and *bilineatus, by general sweeping. Under 

 decaying vegetable matter in woods I took *Trachodes hispidus (2), Tropiphorus 

 carinatus in plenty, also in moss, and PUnthus caliginosus. 



At Bodle Street (which is just outside the Hastings district) Potaminus sub- 

 striatus was again plentiful, and Haliplus cinereus, Hydrcena pulchella, nigrita, 

 riparia, Gyrinus urlnator, Brychius elevatus, Hydroporus Gyllenhalii and lepidus, 

 were all somewhat common. 



Those species which are marked thus * have not been previously recorded from 

 the Hastings district. — W. H. Bennett, 11, George St., Hastings : June I5th, 1892. 



Cryptocephalus bipunctatus (lineola), var. Thomsoni, Weise, at Woking. — On 

 June 11th, by sweeping among sallows, I captured a single example ( ? )t of a Cryp- 

 tocephalus answering to Weise's description (Naturgesch. Ins. Deutschl., vi, p. 167) 

 of his var. f (Thomsoni) of this species : " elytris nigris, macula transversa angusta 

 apicis rufa." This specimen differs from my single representative of C. biguttatus, 

 Scop, (bipustulatus, F.), as defined by Weise (op. cit.), in the much narrower, more 

 transverse apical spot ; and also in the elytra being more finely punctured and with 

 flat interstices, the sculpture thus agreeing with that of C. bipunctatus (var. lineola). 

 The typical form of C. bipunctatus, L., is thus defined by Weise :— " elytris rufis, 

 margine orani, epipleuris punctisque (1, 1) nigris ;" it has not, I believe, been found 

 in Britain ; C lineola, F. (sanguinolentus, Scop.), is placed by Weise under his 

 var. d — " elytris vitta lata longitudinali nigra." It is probable that some of the 

 British specimens determined as C. biguttatus (bipustulatus) really belong to C. 

 Thomsoni, Weise ; Fowler (Brit. Col., iv, p. 291) gives Lyndhurst, Bournemouth, 

 and Chat Moss as locilities for C. biguttatus. Thomson (Skand. Col., viii, p. 304) 

 apparently includes both C. Thomsoni and C. biguttatus under the var. f of C. 

 bipunctatus ; he does not mention the elytral sculpture. C. lineola, F., occurs here 

 in the same locality, where I have lately taken Anchomenus sexpunctatus, Sericosomus 

 brunneus, Salpingus ceratus, &c.— G-. C. Champion, Heatherside, Horsell, Woking : 

 June Uth, 1892. 



t I have since captured another, a male, on June 18th.— G. C. C. 



