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Deliphrum crenatum, Grav., in Dumbartonshire. — Early in September last 

 I was slaying for a few days at Helensburgh on the Clyde On the hillside just 

 above the town runs the West Highland Railway. Still higher a belt of wood — 

 a plantation of conifers— skirts the moors. At the time of my visit, here and there 

 in t lie wood were seen small heaps of comparatively fresh chips. My niece and 

 1 spent a few minutes in examining one of these. Under the partly loosened bark 

 were great numbers of Rhizophagi and a few " Staphs." One of the latter was 

 evidently new to me, and we secured four specimens. Mr. Champion has kindly 

 examined my find, and pronounces it to be the little known Deliphrum crenatum, 

 Grav., a noteworthy capture. In all probability a careful search would prove it to 

 be fairly common in the district. — George W. Chaster, Southport: December, 

 1907. 



Cryptoplia.gus schmidti, Sturm, at Strood, Kent. — On August 26th last I met 

 with half-a-dozen examples of this apparently very rare species of Cryplophajus in 

 the granary at Strood, already well known to Coleopterists (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 vol. xxxiv, p. 159, and vol. xl, p. 5), into which Mr. A. J. Ohitty and I were driven 

 by the rain when we were on our way to Chattenden for a day's collecting. They 

 were found in a few handfuls of chaff, dust, &c, raked out from under a door-sill, 

 in company with C. cellaris, acutawgulus, distinguendus, and other ordinary granary 

 beetles— an unexpected situation, quite different from that in which the original 

 British specimens were taken (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. vii, pp. 206, 229). Mr. G. C. 

 Champion kindly identified the insect for me, and I have since found one or two 

 more among some unexamined Cryptophagi taken in the same granary in 1899. — 

 James J. Walker, Aorangi, Lonsdale Road, Summertown, Oxford : December IGth, 

 1907. 



Pyralis licnigialis, Zell., at Oxford. — The notes by Mr. Eustace R. Bankes in 

 the current volume of the " Entomologist " (vol. xl, pp. 235, 291) on the re-occur- 

 rence of this apparently very rare species in Britain, induced me to look again at 

 two examples of a Pyralis, of which one was taken in my bedroom at light early 

 in August, 1906, and had been placed with some doubt in my series of P. farinalis 

 as a dark aberration of that common insect ; the other, a ? like the first, but in 

 much better condition, also came to light in the same room in the first week of 

 August of this year. On comparison with the two examples in the Dalean Collec- 

 tion of British Lepidoptera at the Oxford University Museum, I find that both 

 my specimens agree exactly with the ? , which is labelled (in C. W. Dale's hand- 

 writing) "Coll. II. Burnoy, 1893," and is probably one of the specimens taken by 

 Messrs. Thompson and Bryan at Stony Stratford, Bucks., on which the species was 

 introduced as British in 18S1 (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., Vol. xvii, p. 256, and Entomolo- 

 gist, vol. xiv, pp. 81, 85). Mr. Bankes (Entomologist, vol. xl, p. 291) calls attention 

 to the record of a specimen of P. lienigialis as having been taken " near Oxford " 

 on August 22nd, 1902 (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxxviii, p. 273) ; so it may reasonably 

 be hoped that this rare and interesting little moth, as yet found in these Islands 

 only in a limited area in the Midland Counties, may turn up here again. — Id. : 

 December Kith, 1907. 



