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Lacoobius sintialus, Mots, foblongus, QorhamJ. — On looking through my 

 material in this genus in the light of Mr. Newbery's tabic (anted,, p. 30), 1 find 

 that I have taken this species on the following occasions : — Cley, Norfolk, August 6th, 

 1888, Horsford Heath, Norfolk, April 30th, 1890, and Colesborne, Glos., May 8th, 



1905. From the Horsford locality, which is one of the characteristic East Norfolk 

 wet heaths, 1 did not at the same time bring L. nigriceps, though I got both 

 Hnuatus and nigriceps in a coast marsh at Cley. In the Colesborne locality, winch 

 is a venial swamp on the Upper Lias at about 500 feet elevation, both species 

 occurred, though I have not at this moment, specimens of each taken at the same 

 time— J. Edwahds, Colesborne, Cheltenham : February \2th, 1908. 



Coleoptera and Kemiplera-Ileteroptera in various localities in, 1907. — Although 

 I was not fortunate enough to make many really rare captures last season, still 

 I have met with some species which are, at least, not common everywhere, besides 

 a few interesting aberrations, so that my finds are perhaps of sufficient importance 

 to enumerate. I owe to the kindness of my friend, Mr. C. J. C. Pool, several good 

 insects from the neighbourhood of Enfield, in which district I personally met with 

 the following -.—Amain conve.viusciila, one specimen amongst, a large number of 

 Harpalus seneus under vegetable refuse; Ulster purpurascens, a series from the 

 same spot showing great variation in the amount of red coloration on the elytra, 

 and including one specimen of the unicolorous black form (ab. niger) ; Scgmnus 

 minimus, rarely, by beating hedges ; tf. capitatus, common on oaks ; Omias mollinus 

 and Gis pygmseus, one specimen of each, obviously wanderers, beaten from a hedge, 

 and another of the former grubbed at roots of grass; Magdalis barbicornis, a short 

 series obtained from two different hedges at some distance apart, all £ s ; Clytus 

 mysticus and Ischnomera ccerulea, out of hawthorn in May ; Phlaeotrya rufipes, 

 a fine specimen running on an old beech towards dusk one evening in July ; 

 Haplocnemus impressus (one) beaten out of a hedge in the same month. I was 

 especially pleased to find a specimen of Phyllobius maculicornis with both the 

 deciduous mandibles intact, and another of P. urticse with one remaining ; in both 

 these species, and probably in all the rest of the genus, they are semicircular in shape 

 short and rather broad, with a distinct blunt tooth extending outwards from the 

 centre of the inner margin of each mandible, the extremities of these teeth almost 

 meeting. In the specimens of the genera Otiorrhynckus, Trachyphlceus, Tropiphorus, 

 and Barynotus retaining these mandibles which I have seen the teeth are wanting. 

 I shall look forward with interest to solving the question whether or not they are 

 present in the closely allied genus Polydrusus ; probably they are. By sweeping 

 Ranunculus bulbosus in Bush Hill Park in June I got a fair number of Exomias 

 pellucidus, a species very liable to be passed over in the net by the unwary 

 Coleopterist in mistake for the more generally distributed E. araneiformis. 

 Aphodius sordidus, one, ex sterc. equino, in July. 



On the marshes of the Lea between Cheshunt and Broxbourne I took several 

 specimens of Apion affine, three in March in a stack, and three in September by 

 sweeping, and hope another season to trace the species to its apparently unknown 

 food-plant. At Broxbourne, on the stormy morning of Whit Monday, the few 

 minutes' collecting allowed by the weather resulted in the very unexpected capture 

 of a fine <J Molorchus minor, beaten from hawthorn blossom near the railway 



