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cori-ect determination of these closely allied species to Mr. Britten. Hister 

 marginatus Er., one specimen in a mole's nest, Gt. Salkeld, 21.x. 1913 (Bi-itten). 

 Monotoma quadricollis Aube, Carlisle, in garden and haystack refuse, May, 1914. 

 Cathartus advena Waltl, Silloth, by the side of the dock, vii.1913. Cryptophagus 

 urnbratus Er., in my ^'arden last spring, also taken by Mr. Britten atGt. Salkeld. 

 Rhagonycha unicolor Curt., Wreay, June, 1913, one specimen. Phaedon concinnus 

 Steph., Silloth, 31.V.1914, one specimen. Fsylliodes affinis Pk., King-moor Nature 

 Reserve, common in Augvist ; Gt. Salkeld (Britten) ; Gelt (G. B. Eoutledge). 

 ApioH genistae Kirby, Kingmoor, abundant in May and again in August.- — 

 F. H. Day, 26, Currock Terrace, Carlisle : January 1st, 1915. 



Harpalus ohscurus F, in Cambridgeshire. — I took a fine specimen of this 

 insect at an old quarry near Fulbourn, Cambs, on June 23rd, 1914. It is 

 interesting to find H. obscur^is recurring after so many years, not many miles 

 from where Dr. Power took it, at Swaft'ham. — N. F. MacHardt, County 

 Asylum, Cambridge : February 16th, 1915. 



Lesteva luctuosa Fauv., in Yorkshire. — In July, 1913, I captured three 

 specimens of a Lesteva which I found was not described in Fowler's " British 

 Coleoptera," Vol. II, and not having access to the supplementary volume of 

 that work, I sent one of them to Mr. J. E. le B. Tomlin. He returned it as an 

 undoubted example of Lesteva luctuosa Fauv. 1 took these insects in a 

 mountain stream near Malham, W. Yoi'kshire ; they were found very firmly 

 attached to the underside of stones, quite immersed in running water, in fact 

 reminding one at once of the habit of Dianous. — J. W. Carter, 15, Westfield 

 Eoad, Bradford : February 17th, 1915. 



Abundance of Pyrameis cardui in North Wales. — I did not notice the arrival 

 of this species hereabouts last Spring, but in the Autumn freshly emerged 

 specimcjns were abundant in the Conway Vale and on the northern shores of 

 Cardigan Bay at Criccieth and at Towyn. Plusia gamma, its usual colleague in 

 years of abundance, was observed, but not in imusual quantity. — Willoughbt 

 Gardner, Deganwy, North Wales : January, 1915. 



Pararge megaera and Chrijsopihanus phlaeas in 1914. — Eeferring to recent 

 records of a third brood of Pieris brassicae, it may be mentioned that the 

 prolonged Autumn sunshine of 1914 produced a third brood of Pararge megaera 

 at Criccieth, where freshly emerged females were observed in three separate 

 localities between the 2nd and 4th of November. A freshly emerged specimen 

 of Chrysophanus phlaeas was also seen on November 4th. It is to be noted that 

 these two species are evidently more hardy than Pyrameis atalanta and 

 P. cardui ; these butterflies were jjlentiful up to October 28th, when a colder 

 night caused them to hibernate, and they did not appear again, thouo-h 

 specially looked for, during the warm days at the beginning of November. — 



WiLLOUGHBY GaBDNER. 



