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Procas armillatus, F., in Nottinghamshire. — While sweeping along a dry sandy 

 liedge-bank in a lane at Edwinstowe, on the borders of Sherwood Forest, at dusk on 

 June 10th last, I was pleased to take a specimen of this rare beetle in fine condition. 

 Further sweeping failed to produce other examples. This appears to be only the 

 third specimen recorded during the last twelve years, and, so far as I can ascertain, 

 the locality is a new one for the species. 



In the same spot Philo/jedon geminatus, F., was common, and Atactogenus 

 exaratus. Marsh., not scarce, but the specimens of the latter were very rubbed. — Id. : 

 November Tth, 190S. 



Onthophilus globulosus, 01., cf'c, in mole's nests. — With reference to Mr. Joy's 

 remarks in the last number of this Magazine (p. 248), on my record of the above 

 species, I should like to ssiy that since my first capture (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xliii, 

 p. 62), I have found thirteen more specimens in the same locality distributed 

 between six nests; all of the nests being quite "sweet," in fact the foul nest from 

 which 1 obtained the original specimens was, as Mr. Joy says, in quite an abnormal 

 state. 



For my part I think the species is quite as likely to be as much attached to 

 mole's nests as to rabbit burrows, but the species appears to be a very local one. It 

 will, however, I think be found more commonly if collectors will search the earth 

 around the actual nest, as it is from this source I have been able to obtain the 

 greater number of my specimens. 



As Mr. Joy states that he knows of no records from mole's nests of Bythinus 

 securiger, except his own, it may be of interest to record that I took four specimens 

 from a nest at Oulton Broad, Suffolk, on March 29th, 19o7 — Ii>. 



Abundance of la rv as of ryrochroa coccinea, L., and Athotis rhombeus, 01., in the 

 New Forest. — In August last 1 had two days' collecting with Dr. Sharp and Mr. Lamb 

 in the New Forest. Everything was so dry that there was little to be obtained, but 

 in one or two parts of the forest the larvrc of Pyrochroa coccinea, L., and Athous 

 rhombeus, 01., were so plentiful that we refrained at last from stripping off bark to 

 search for beetles, as it seemed a pity to disturb and perhaps destroy them. The 

 former of these were in all stages of growth, from a few millimetres in length up to 

 nearly 40 mm. The abundance of the larvae is in strange contrast to the extreme 

 scarcity of the perfect insect, but the habits of the latter do not as yet appear to be 

 known, and it ought, apparently, to be looked for during a particular short season of 

 two or three days, and at a particular hour. The black larvae of Athous rhombeus 

 were mostly well grown. They appear to have cannibalistic propensities, for we 

 found one with the body of another sucked nearly dry in close proximity. The 

 perfect insects arc rarely found in the open, but I swept a single specimen off bracken 

 near Broekenhurst, many years ago.— W. W. Fowler, Earley Vicarage, Reading : 

 November Ulh, 1908. 



Olibrus pygmxus, Sturm, on Filago germanica. — Whilst collecting at Cromer, 

 sometime back, I found the above species upon the small and curious looking Filago 

 germanica. Nearly every plant examined had one or more specimens upon it, 

 usually in the flower-head, and so far as I could see they confined themselves to the 

 Filago. 



