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Phryxus livornica at Bournemouth. — Seeing in your last issue 

 of the Ent. Record, the capture of Pliri/xns livornica, recorded by my 

 friend Mr. McEae, perhaps it may interest you to hear that on the 

 evening of May 22nd last I saw one settle on a bush in my garden, 

 evidently exhausted, but on my approach it flew off before I could 

 secure it. On the 23rd, my wife captured two specimens, 3 and $ , 

 on the 24th another S , and on the 25th I took one more, unfortu- 

 nately we missed others ; there have also been several more taken here. 

 — W. C. Jackson, Malvern, Bournemouth. Aufpist 5th, 1904. 



Agrius convolvuli and Joche,era alni near Exeter. ^ — It may be 

 of some interest to your readers to know that Aiirius conrolndi has 

 occurred here, a <? having been taken by my friend, Mr. Budd, on 

 August 21st. It was found on the pavement, had hurt itself in some 

 way as it could not fly, and had lost a good deal of its colour. I my- 

 self captured a larva of Jocheacra alni on elm, on August 22nd. Have 

 you heard of any other captures of this larva this year ? — F. Blanch- 

 ford, 16, Jubilee Street, St. Leonard's, Exeter. Autjust 23jv/, 1904. 



OLEOPTERA. 



Coleoptera in the Deewent Valley, Autumn, 1903. — From the 

 third week in September till the end of October the following insects 

 occurred more or less commonly in the vicinity of Winlaton Mill : — 

 ( 'ar-abm catenulatwi, Scop., Xotiop/iilns bif/itttatns, F., Loricera pilicornis, 

 F., Anchomenus alhipcfs, F., Bonbidiuni riifescens, Guer., Dromius linearis, 

 01., D. qnadrixuicidatus, L., D. nielanocephalun, Dj., Creopliiliis maxil- 

 lostis, L., Baj>tolinnH alternant, Gr., Latln-obiuin brunnipes, F., Lesteva 

 lo7i{iclytrata, Goez., Lathrimaewn iinicolor, Steph., Rliizopliaijux dispar, 

 Pk., Plnjllodecta ritellinae, L., including the rare blue aberration, 

 Chrysomela fttap/iylea, L., Donacia rersicolora, Brahm, in Gibside, 

 Galerucella viburni, Pk., on the guelder-rose, Rhatiiiaii inquisitor, F., 

 Rhinosomnn planirostris, F., Otiorlnjnchns picipes, F., Strop/iosoninf; 

 coryli, F., and S. capitattis, De G., commonly. Cyclirus rostratus, L., 

 LeistUH spinibarbis, F., and Anc/ioineniifi faliiiinosus, Pz., occasionally. 

 Dromiufi ijiiadrinotatiis, 'Pz., with T). (jnadri)iiaci(latiis, L., but much less 

 commonly than the latter, and seeming to prefer plane trees and thorns, 

 JJ. ]iuridionaliH, Dj., evidently local. Halyzia rii/intidi(opunctata, L., 

 from tansy ; Rhizobius litura, F., Gibside ; Triplax aenea, Schal., from 

 under bark of hollies, Hollinside ; < 'erylon ferriti/ineiun, Steph., one speci- 

 men under bark of oak, Gibside; RJiizopJiay imperforatus, Er., from under 

 the loose bark of a felled plane tree, near Lockhaugh ; ('. ferruyineiDii 

 and R. perforatum are seemingly new to the Northumberland and 

 Durham district. In a lingering flower of meadow-sweet, near Gibside 

 pond, I took a small yellow Kjntraea, of which, when identified, I may 

 have more to say. Single specimens of Psylliodes napi, Koch, Thyamis 

 luridus var. fuscicollis. Scop., Plectioscelis concinna, Marsh., (Jtior- 

 /ii/nc/ius sulcatum, F., Hy/iera susjdciosa, Hbst., and H. )ti(friromtris, F., 

 occurred on sallows and willows near Winlaton Mill, whilst (irypidius 

 equiseti, F., Krirhi)ius acrid ulus, L., Vorytomus ralidirostris, Gyll., D. 

 pectoralis, Gyll., D. maculatus, Marsh., Sciapliilus niuricatus, F., and 

 Orchestes salicis, L., fell in greater numbers. (K stiyma, Germ., 

 occurred not uncommonly on nettles. From wild cherry I took Antho- 



