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teresting discoveries, involving the names, amoQg others, of two of 

 the members of this Section, namely, sexspinosa, Coll., and cubit alis, 

 Beck. 



Sexspinosa, Coll. MS. Mr. Collin's words are "jlavicoxa, Ztt., is 

 our sexspinosa. In Zetterstedt's collection I found a pair, the ? has 

 an additional (though obviously adventitious) bristle on the scutellum, 

 making seven in all. Becker (Die Phoriden) in his Table of Group 

 II has correctly placed this species, if it be taken as belonging to the 

 Section with four scutellar bristles, but in the descriptive part of his 

 work he sinks it as a dark variety of ruficornis.'''' 



Gubitalis, Beck. This Mr. Collin writes me is undoubtedly the 

 same as humeralis, Ztt., the former being the male with its incrassated 

 thick vein and the latter the female with the vein simple ; he also 

 calls my attention to a paragraph in Zetterstedt's Dipt. Scaud., xiv, 

 p. 6474, which reads as follows : — 



" 11. Tr. humeralis. Zett., vii, p. 2862 ? , and xii, 4824. 



" Specimina mascula, alar nervo auxiliari manifeste crasso et nigro, in Lapp. 

 " infer, legit Prof. Bolieman ; Mus. Acad. Holm." 



which proves that Zetterstedt had correctly recognised the male. 



Tarrington, Hereford : 



October, 1908. 



Coleoptera in the Woking district. — The following species of Coleoptera have 

 been captured in this neighbourhood since the publication of my last " Note " 

 (anted, p. 134), a few of them being new to the distiict -.—Dyschirius politus, on 

 the wing ; Calodera nigrila, one specimen, on the wing, June ; Medon apicalis, two 

 at Chobham, May 30th, and one at Woking, June 23rd, all on the wing towards 

 sunset ; Homalota debilis, Oxytelus clypeonitens, O. fairmairei, Bledkis opacus, 

 Trogophlceus tenellus, Acrognalhus mandibularis (sparingly), Neuraphes angulatus, 

 Triarthron mdrkeli, Monotonia longicollis, &c., ad on the wing, June ; Oxypoda 

 nigrina (in plenty), Ptilium exarutum. I', kunzei, Melanophthalmasimilata* (in some 

 numbers), &c, in a bundle of faggots on the Common, June; Colon serripes and 

 C. viennense, on the wing, June; Coninomus carinafus, one specimen, in a pine stump, 

 Chobham ; Antherophagus silaceus, Chobham, August 29th, by sweeping grass, &c. ; 

 Epursea thoracica, not rare, on the wing, around a heap of pine logs, Chobham, 

 June 14th ; Elater sanguinolentus , sparingly, and Cryptocephalus ochrostoma, on 

 birch and aspen, Chobham, June 6th ; Doreatoma Jlavicornis and Coznocara bonistse, 

 on the wing towards evening, July ; 1'h/ceophilus edwardsi, one specimen, by sweep- 

 ing, September 5th ; Conopalpus testaceus, on the wing, June 26th ; Mordellistena 



* This species was again noticed at Guildford, on spruce, in May, June, and September, and 

 it has recently been found by Dr. Sharp and Mr. J. J. Walker in the New Forest. 



