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station. I discovered in a lane here in May, 1906, a small colony of Phyllodecta 

 laticollis* Suffr. (cavifrons, Thorns.), inhabiting two or throe trees in a fine row of 

 Lombardy poplars, and was pleased to find them there again in August last. I think 

 their choice of food-plant is of interest, because so very few Coleoptera appear to 

 have been recorded as occurring on the Lombardy poplar in this country ; the 

 record of Dorytomus tortrix living upon it in Scotland, given by Fowler, is the 

 only one I have come across. On the willows which line the opposite side of the 

 lane Plagiodera versicolora and Crepidodera chloris are usually fairly common, but 

 I was unable to find any of the Phyllodecta upon them. Gymnetron rillosulus, 

 which I met with rarely at Broxbourne in 1006, was absent last season. Miscel- 

 laneous captures on the marshes at various times included Ilybhis fenestrates, not 

 uncommon in the Lea, Oaytelus insecatus, Steaus melanopus, Anther ophag us fallens, 

 Anisosticta ld-punctata (with two pretty orange specimens), R'rizobius litura, quite 

 black (two), Corymbites tessellatus, Bruchus ruftpes, Sippuriphila modeeri, Psyl- 

 Uodes picina, scarce, as usual here, Phyllotreta tetrastigma, Grypidius equiseti (one), 

 not seen here since 1898, Ceuthorrhy nchus alliariee, Hylesinus oleiperda, and, in 

 December, a single Lathrobitim fillforme under willow bark. 



A visit to Greenhithe in June produced Balaninus turbatus, rarely, also 

 Deporaiis megacephaltis and Conopalpus teslaceus. At Box Hill I took nothing 

 better than Aealles turbatus, Cryptocephalus bilineatus, and Mordella fasciata. 

 At Chorley Wood, Bucks., in July, I captured a nice aberration of the common 

 Strang alia armata, in which the black markings are extended in a manner some- 

 what similar to that figured in Rye's "British Beetles," pi. 14; this specimen, in 

 which when fresh the ground colour was quite orange, was the only insect so 

 marked out of more than thirty seen. At Woking, in August, I got nothing worth 

 mentioning, except a fine fresh specimen of Cleonus nebulosus. Epping Foi'est in 

 the same month produced four specimens of Prionus coriarius, and here also in 

 September I was pleased to turn up again the local Cwnopsis walloni, which T took 

 there rarely in 1902. 



On a visit to Deal in June, in quest of Donacire, I obtained, in addition to 

 several desiderata in that genus, four specimens of Melanotics pitnctolineates, also 

 Saprinus metallic/is, &e. ; and on a later visit, on September 1st, a good series of 

 Jleptaulaeus sus (ex sterc. equino) and also of Apion Isevicolle. On this occasion 

 I was fortunate enough to pick up on the sandhills a remarkable example of the 

 common Sermyla halensis, L., in which the basal fourth of the elytra is deep blue 

 and the remainder coppery-red, the insect itself also being unusually attenuated in 

 shape. In Naturg. Ins. Deutschl., VI, 662, Weise described a variety of 5. halensis, 

 which he named var. cuprina, the elytra in which are characterised as " lebhaft 

 kupferroth oder metallisch feuerroth " ; my insect, however, can hardly be referred 

 to this variety on account both of the distinct basal blue band and also of the com- 

 paratively dull appearance, which, added to the compressed shape, makes it probable, 

 I think, that this interesting insect is an altogether abnormal form. 



A lane at Dartford, in October, produced single specimens each of Otiorrhynchus 

 raucus and Blypera murina by grubbing. 



* This name has priority according to the European Catalogue of Heyden, Rcitter, and 

 Weise, 1900. 



