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Psijlliodes cyanoptera III., in Huntingdonshire. — Last year Mr. W. Holland, 

 while collecting in Hunts for the Hon. N. Charles Rothschild, came across 

 this Halticid and obtained a few specimens, mostly immature. This year 

 Mr. Rothschild kindly promised to look for the species for me, and, after one 

 or two unsuccessful attempts, he foiind the beetle just at the end of June : it 

 occurs on Sisymbrium sophia (Flix Weed or Pine-leaved Hedge Mustard), a 

 plant which is somewhat scarce, bxit very widely distributed in England, 

 Scotland, and Ireland. The insect is extremely rare in Britain : in fact until 

 last year I had not seen a British specimen. Stephens records it as " taken 

 near London, in Suffolk, and about Bristol."* Typical specimens have the head 

 and thorax clear red, but I have several specimens with the thorax dark, 

 though reddish, and the head somewhat obscurely red. — W. W. Fowler, 

 Earley Vicarage, Reading : A^igust I6th, 1915. 



Triarthron maerkeli Schmidt, in Cumberland. — At the end of June and the 

 beginning of July, 1913, I came across this beetle in a small pine copse on the 

 banks of the Esk, in Eskdale, Cumberland. My son and I found about eighty 

 specimens diu-ing our stay, although it was never plentiful on any one evening. 

 This year I have tried to find it in the same locality, but, perhaps owing to the 

 wet and cold evenings, have failed to do so. The species is not uncommon near 

 Wellington College, Berks., but the weather must be exactly right (a warm 

 evening, just after sunset, with the dew beginning to settle), or it will not 

 put in an appearance. — W. W. Fowler : August 16th, 1915. 



Coleoptera, iHfc, in the Salisbury district. — During the fourteen weeks or so 

 that I have been under canvas at Li^dgershall, the following Coleoptera have 

 come under my notice. Of course, my time has been very limited, and I have 

 done practically nothing except on Saturday afternoons and Sundays, and then 

 only when I have been unable to get away on leave. Among the Geodephaga 

 the best species is a single example of Lebia cyanocephala found running over an 

 oak stmnp, several Pterostichus versicolor running about in the lines, and Ama7-as 

 of various species, which frequently came into the tents. 



Water-beetles I have not worked for, but I heard of a Dytiscus in a horse- 

 trough, and took a series of Hydroporus marginatus in a sheep-pond. 



Staphylinus latebricola was an interesting capture. I got six specimens 

 altogether, all of which were on the wing. 



The early weeks were too dry for moss, bark, and fungi, but I got odd 

 specimens of Cyrtotriplax bipustulata, Neuraphes angulatus, Agathidium rotun- 

 datum, A. atrum, and Aspidophorus orbiculatus, while Ditoma crenata and 

 Scaphidium 4-maculatum were frequently met with. Two Heptaulacus villosus 

 were taken crawling over the bare ground near the camp, where Homaloplia ruri- 

 cola was very common for a few days ; many flew into the trenches and were then 

 unable to get out ; the black form also was not rare. Elater elongatulus (2), 

 Molorchus minor (1), Strangalia 4-fasciata (2), were all worth picking up. 

 Strangalia melanura was in profusion at wood-spurge blossom, and I also saw 



*.Mr. A. J. Chitty has met with it at Wicken Fen. — G.C.C. 



