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the description given by Loew in his Monograph of Helomyzidae 

 (1859). The species is very like miGro].)s Mgn., from which it differs 

 in having three pre-apical bristles on the hind femora, the margin of 

 the thorax and parts of the pleurae yellow, and the third costal 

 segment— the space between Sc and Ri — distinctly longer. Loew 

 records it from " Schlesien nnd and er warts in Deutschland." I do 

 not find it recorded in more modern works accessible to me. I have 

 to thank Mr. Collin for confirming my identification. 



Monifieth : 



June \st, 1915. 



Synchita juglandis F., etc., in the Oxford district. — On June 12th I was 

 greatly surprised to find a fine living specimen of this rare Colydiid entangled 

 in a cobweb on a standing dead birch tree near Tvibney, Berks : a few days 

 previously 1 had met with the same beetle in the New Forest in company with 

 Colydium, Trypodendron, etc., in a large fresh birch log. So few localities in 

 Britain are known for Synchita, that its occurrence in Berkshire is worth record- 

 ing. Dromius 4:-signatus, taken on the same occasion under oak bark, is also an 

 addition to the lengthy list of Berkshire Coleoptera in the " Victoria History " 

 of that county. — James J. Walker, Oxford : June 14i^, 1915. 



Recent captures of Coleoptera. — Carahus auratus L. : a ? picked up at Deal, 

 August, 1913 ; Gymnusa hrevicollis Payk. : a $ from a dead crow, Compton 

 Heath, near Guildford, April 21st, 1914 ; Quedius longicornis Kr. : <? and $ 

 taken together under a stone on a mountain side, Strathyre, Perthshire, Aiigust, 

 1913; Philonthus eheninus,Gr.,v. corruscus: a $ from a dead crow, Shackleford, 

 near Guildford, April, 1913 ; Melasis buprestoides L. : in abundance in a fallen 

 decayed birch branch on Wimbledon Common, March 22nd, 1914. Larvae were 

 also present in abundance, a.nd were found sparingly (unaccompanied by the 

 perfect beetle) in fallen decayed oak branches in various other parts of 

 the Common ; Strangalia aurulenta F. : a $ example on Umbelliferae, at Looe, 

 S. Cornwall, in August, 1914. The specimen was taken by Cadet C. H. Eoberts, 

 K.N. I am informed that it was one of two, both females, and that another 

 was seen in the same place the previous year ; Rhynchites auratus Scop. : a $ 

 taken by A. C. Worthington, Esq., by beating oak in Charlton Forest, near 

 Chichester, April, 1913. — Michael G. L. Perkins, 4, Dean's Yard, Westminster 

 Abbey, S.W. : May 31st, 1915. 



An addition to the Coleoptera of Leicestershire. — On May 29th, I made an 

 interesting addition to the recorded Coleoptera of Leicestershire by capturing 

 Clytiis mysticus var. hieroglyphicus Hbst., near Leicester. — S. V. Taylor, 26, 

 Nelson Road, Leicester : June 9th, 1915. 



Swarm of Barypithes {Exomias) pelUicidus Boh. m Cambridgeshire, and notes 

 on its food-plants. — In the May number of this Magazine, among his notes 



