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village, and again near the Coylum Bridge in the Rothiemurchua Forest, on both 

 occasions on the spruce fir, though beating the Scots fir trees close around produced 

 not a single specimen. 



I obtained the Melanophthalma only at the first locality at Nethy Bridge. 

 Mr. Donisthorpe, who was staying with us in the middle of September, obtained a 

 good series of botli insects.— T. Hudson BeaRE, 10, Regent Terrace, Edinburgh : 

 November \2th, 1D08. 



Pyropterus affinis, Payk., at Nethy Bridge.— On the very first day of my visit 

 I captured this species under the bark of a Scots fir stump on the golf course. The 

 only other record for Scotland is that by Mr. Champion, who took it at Aviemore in 

 1892 (Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. xxviii, p. 243).— Id. 



PhlceopHilm edwardsi, Steph., at Nethy Bridge. — While sweeping long grass 

 in a glade in the pine forest near the village late on the afternoon of September 13th, 

 I obtained a single specimen of this insect. As far as I know this is the first record 

 of the species from Scotland, though Mr. Britten takes it in Cumberland. It is 

 certainly an interesting capture from this far northern locality. - Id. 



He-occurrence of Gnorimus variabilis, L.— When I came some two years ago to 

 reside within a short distance of Purlcy Oaks, Surrey, I had in mind that in Fowler's 

 " British Coleoptera " (vol. iv, p. 59), it is mentioned as one of the localities for the 

 above mentioned rare Lamellicorn and I determined to see if it could be rediscovered. 

 Accordingly, one day early last May I set out to prospect. 



The old Oaks are now few in number, and the majority are enclosed by a very 

 high fence of the almost unclimbable order ; however, my lucky star was in the 

 ascendant, for in thick frass under a piece of loose bark on the very first tree I came 

 to, I turned out twenty-eight living and three dead full-fed larvae of what I thought 

 must be Gnorimus variabilis. 



Having carefully removed the larva; and carried them home, I placed some damp 

 earth and frass in a tin, and put the larvae on the compost into which they dis- 

 appeared with astonishing rapidity. On June 5th any doubts I had as to identity 

 were dispelled by the appearance of the first imago, but when the 15th of the month 

 arrived and no more had presented themselves, I turned out the box and found that 

 eleven larvee had been killed by some fungoid growth, four of the remainder had 

 come off hopeless cripples, and the other twelve were perfect specimens of the beetle. 



A visit to the tree with Mr. W. K. Sharp, early in July, resulted in the dis- 

 covery of four imagines and two more dead larvse but although we examined every 

 one of the oaks in the enclosure, not another tree appeared, to contain a single 

 specimen, though one showed traces of the species having formerly occurred in it. 

 The whole thirty-seven living and dead specimens were congregated under a piece of 

 bark about two feet by eighteen inches. 



The larva is described by the Rev. Canon Fowler in the volume of this 

 Magazine for 1892, page 242, and the most recent record I can find of the capture of 

 the species is that by the Rev. Theodore Wood of a specimen taken at Balham in 

 July, 1897, {vide Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxxv, p. 94).— E. C. Bedwell, The Grove, 

 Coulsdon : October I9tk, 1908. 



