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nomns pedicularis, L., in plenty, and also a few exaiuples of its rarer 

 brother, A. pomorum, L., both occurring from the same tree and seem- 

 ing very local. Hijpera punctata, F,, was taken on a rail at Hollinside, 

 and near by I met with Hylobiiis abietis, L., resting on a reed. Another 

 very interesting insect, namely Anisoto)iia diibm, Kug., was taken from 

 long grass one evening early in October. — Richard S. Bagnall, The 

 Groves, Winlaton-on-Tyne. Jinw 21th, 1904. 



Tachys parvulus, Dj., in the New Forest. — On May Gth last I 

 took a short series of this rare little beetle, the smallest of our indi- 

 genous Carabidas, in Spluupviw, near Lyndhurst. The beetle was not 

 uncommon, but I did not spend much time over it, as I wanted to 

 devote my attention to water-beetles. It rested in our list on a single 

 specimen taken by Mr. Smedley at Wallasey, in 1884, till Mr. Champion 

 took it in some numbers in Cornwall m 1897. Then Mr. Heasler 

 recorded one specimen from the New Forest in 1902, and Mr. Champion 

 one from Woking in the same year. I found Paederus califjatiis in the 

 Spha(jniwi at the same time. — Horace Donisthorpe, 58, Kensington 

 Mansions, South Kensington. July 14f/(, 1904. 



A few notes on waterbeetles in 1904. — I devoted some little 

 time to fishing for waterbeetles in the early part of this year, not with- 

 out success, and I thought that a few notes on the result might be of 

 interest. The very wet weather of last year and the beginning of this 

 seems to have been beneficial to the waterbeetles at any rate, as many 

 species turned up in new localities, and in some numbers in different 

 localities at about the same period of the year. In the New Forest, in 

 May, I took Haliplus variegatua, Pelohius tardus, the well known 

 screech beetle, and Deronectes latus, this is a new locality for this 

 species, and it is also said to be only found in running water (see 

 Fowler, vol. i., p. 170), but I fished it out of a small pond not 

 connected with any running water, and I took it later at Hanwell, 

 also in a stagnant pond. Hi/ibyjpnrus lepidus, H. flavipes, common 

 in one pool on Beaulieu Heath, it was evidently a favourable 

 year for this species as I took it again at Oxshott, and heard it was 

 abundant at Woking. Flijdroporus pictus, H. obscurus, H. vittula, 

 EJtantus bistriatns, etc. I was working for At/abus hrunncus, which I 

 did not find, it really looks as if this species has disappeared, as it has 

 not been taken now for a great many years. In Richmond Park the 

 water-net produced P>idessus (/ewinua in plenty, it is evidently a year for 

 this species a,lso, as Professor Beare, who has well worked the Park for 

 waterbeetles, tells me he never took it there. I also took it at Oxshott, 

 and hear it w^as likewise common at Woking. Coelambus wipreano-punc- 

 tatns was also abundant in several ponds, and Hydroporus incoynitus 

 turned up in numbers in one pond. I also fished a specimen of Dytiscus 

 circumflexus out of the pond where Pelobius tardus occurs. At Hanwell I 

 took Hydaticus soiiiniyer, PJiantus yrapii, Coelaiuhus impresw-punctatus, 

 which was very common, Hydroporus yranularis and angustata, Dero- 

 nectes latus, etc. At Sandown, Isle of Wight, Hydroratus clypealis, the 

 object of my visit, was taken, though sparingly, as the pond was very 

 full of water and weeds and difficult to work. Cnemidotus impressus 

 (apparently not recorded before from the Isle of Wight), and Hydro- 

 porus anyustatus, etc., occurred in the same pool. At Oxshott, a small 

 pond there proved very prolific, the following species occurring — 

 Bidessus yewinus, Coelambus inaequalis, Hydroporus lepidus, yranularis, 

 flavipes, pictus, mevmonius, obscurus, puhescens, lituratus, planus, yyllen- 



