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decayed willow near Ripley in Surrey (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1904, p. 33). But at 

 Mildenhall, in Suffolk, whence it was recorded by Mr. Claude Morley in Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., 1899, p. 190, a number of imagines were found, still in the larval tunnels, 

 in an oak post. Besides the Chatteris specimen, the Cambridge Museum possesses 

 only one other example, a female, without record of locality, from the old 

 British collection of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 



"While X. prolongata has generally been noticed in the Southern counties, 

 most records of our other species, A', camelus Linn., are from Scotland or the 

 North of England. But it also occurs in the New Forest. It was taken there 

 by Dale on June 23rd, 1840 (see " Entomologist," 1901, p. 54). It was again 

 obtained there in 1906, as recorded by Bloomfield in Ent. Mo. Mag., 1908, p. 137. 

 Other examples have also been captured in that locality. The Cambridge 

 Museum contains a male taken at Lyndhurst on July 22nd, 1903, by 

 Mr. F. Jenkinson ; this capture has, I believe, not previously been placed on 

 record. Besides this specimen, the Cambridge collection has only tvsro other 

 examples, a male and a female, without data, from the old British collection of 

 the late W. H. L. Walcott. X. camelus is said to be attached to the alder, and 

 Cameron ( I.e.) quotes Frauenfeld as stating that it was known (on the Continent) 

 to have destroyed a young birch. Mr. Morice informs me that both species are 

 distributed through all Europe, and X. camelus through Asiatic Siberia also. — 

 Hugh Scott, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge : July, 1915. 



A note on Mr. Walsh's observations 07i the survival, etc., of Insects. — In 

 reading Mr. Walsh's very useful contribution in regard to the survival and 

 extinction of insects, commencing in this month's Ent. Mo. Mag., p. 225, I was 

 struck by the concluding paragraph of his intx-oductory remarks, which, at fii-st 

 sight, wotdd seem to convey that the author and myself were the only two 

 Coleopterists who had added to our knowledge of the Northumberland and 

 Durham beetles. This allusion, I take it, however, refers only to such groups 

 or species he deals with in his discourse. At the same time it is only just, 

 though scarcely necessary, to draw attention to the pioneer work in Coleoptera 

 of one of our foremost Entomologists, Mr. J. Gardner, F.E.S., who added 

 considerably to Bold and Hardy's list, confirmed many old records, and made 

 the coast near Hartlepool, Greathani Salt Marsh, and Egglestone, classic ground 

 to North country naturalists. — K. S. Bagnall, Penshaw Lodge, Penshaw, 

 Co. Durham : August 17th, 1915. 



Jibslracts of |lerent literature. 



by hugh scott, m.a., p.l.s., f.e.s. 



Neave, S. a. "The Tabanidae of Southern Ntasaland, with Notes 

 ON their Life-Histories." Bull. Ent. Eesearch, Vol. 5, part 4, pp. 287-320, 

 pi. 27-31, March, 1915. 



In addition to systematic descriptions, this work contains matter of more 

 general interest. With regard to the habits of the adult Tabanids of this part 



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