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Anisotoma brunnea, Sim., from the Isle of Wight. — On July 27th, 1801, I to>ok 

 a small Anisotoma in Chalo Chine, Isle of Wight, when evening sweeping, which A 

 have never been able to make out satisfactorily. I have shown it lo various British 

 Coleopteriste who did not agree about it. It was suggested thai it might be a small 

 A. dubia, but I did not think so, and Dr. Joy said he was sure it was one of the 

 better and more obscure species. I have now sent it to Uerr Ganglbauer, and he 

 returns it to me as A. brunnea, Stm., with the description of which it agrees. There 

 appear to be very few records of this rare species. See Fowler, " British Coleoptera," 

 vol. iii, p. 30, and Rye, Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. is, p. 135. — Horace DoNisTiiourE, 

 Kensington Mansions, S.W. : February, 1908. 



Meligethes subrugosu.s, GylL, in South Devon. — -I have to record the capture of 

 a single specimen of the very rare Meligethes subrugosus, Gyll., by general hedge 

 sweeping near Ugboro' Beacon in September last. Mr. J. H. Keys, himself the 

 fortunate captor of one some years ago in the same district, very kindly identified 

 the insect for me.— Philip de la Garde : February loth, 1908. 



Coloration of Laccobius jiurpurascens. — In Mr. Newbery's paper on Laccobius 

 purpurascens in the last number of this Magazine there is a point which, with his 

 concurrence, I should like to make more prominent — I refer to the " green " tinge. 

 In some examples, two per cent, perhaps, the whole of the red ground-colour is 

 replaced by a green (somewhat similar to that of Ischnomera cuerulea), which is clear 

 and decided when the insect is fresh, but appears to gradually give way to nearly the 

 normal colouring after the lapse of a considerable time; intermediate forms occur, 

 but I have not yet seen a ease where the thorax alone was green. This green is 

 a ground- colour, and does not prejudice the peculiar purplish bloom which is, 

 I believe, invariably present on fresh specimens. The type of the species is in the 

 British (Natural History) Museum. — Id. 



He-occurrence of Hydroporus bilinealus, Sturm, in Britain.— -This species 

 does not appear to have been recorded in this country since it was added to our 

 fauna by the late Mr. A. J. Chitty in 1903 (bint. Mo. Mag., vol. xxxix, p. 113). I am 

 therefore pleased to be able to put on record that, whilst collecting in the Hastings 

 district in September last, I captured a single specimen at Pett whilst washing my 

 hands in a pool after a day's " grubbing." If I had realized the importance of my 

 capture I could doubtless have secured more, even without a net, for I distinctly 

 remember disturbing a number of small Hydropori. In addition to the above 

 species I am able to add to the Hastings list of Coleoptera , Rydrsena pyymxa, 

 Wat., two specimens of which turned up under a stone at Fairlight, Xenusa uvida, 

 Er., and Phalacrus hybridus, Elach, single specimen at Pett, and Fhilonthus 

 ebeninus var. corruscus, Grav., at Bexhill High Woods. llebrus pusillus, Fall., 

 proved to be an addition to Mr. E. A. Butler's local list of the Hcmi ptera- FLetero- 

 ptera (" Hastings and East Sussex Naturalist," Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 23) ; it occurred 

 singly at Bye, and with it. were two developed specimens of Microvelia pygmxa, 

 Duf., the only other species worth recording. My thanks arc due to Mr. W. li. 

 Bennett for putting me in the way of finding a large number of local and interest- 

 ing species, and to Mr. E. A. Newbery for assistance in identifying my captures. — 

 E. C. Bkdwell, The Grove, Coulsdon, Surrey : February, 1908. 



