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yet been described, but do not recollect seeing a description. Given 

 good weather, this trip to Ambleside makes as fine a day as one could 

 wish for. The sail morning and evening down Windermere, and the 

 marvellous views from Red Skrees, probably give one as good an idea 

 of the English lakes and mountains as could be obtained anywhere in 

 one day. Altogether Witherslack and its surroundings provide a rare 

 change in every way from southern collecting, and should any be 

 induced by these notes to try the experiment, I feel sure they will not 

 be disappointed. — Russell E. James, 18, Onslow Gardens, Highgate, 

 N. September 28th, 1904. 



OLEOPTERA. 



Coleopteka at Rydal. — By an unfortunate blunder [antca p. 246) 

 Rydal is stated to be in Cumberland ; it is, as a matter of fact, in the 

 county of Westmorland, and as the local lists for these two counties 

 are now being kept very accurately, it is desirable to correct at once 

 this slip. — (Prof.) T. Hudson Beare. 



Calosoma sycophanta near Epping. — Readers of the Ent. Record 

 may be interested to know that a fine specimen oi Calosoma sijcophanta 

 was taken near Epping, by Mr. E. Smith of Coopersale, who found it 

 in an outbuilding at the early part of this month, and forwarded it 

 alive to me. — W. Bevins, Hallsford Villas, Ongar, Essex, October 

 10th, 1904. 



Cis bilamellatus. Wood, at Shirley. — On October 10th, when 

 looking for Apions on Shirley Common, I found a small white fungus on 

 the ground. On picking it up to examine it I noticed a small Cis on 

 it, which I at once recognised as Cis bilamellatus. Wood, (? . Further 

 search revealed plenty of the species. In the Ent. Mo. Ma<i., 1904, 

 p. 238, Mr. Theodore Wood records the re-discovery of this species at 

 West Wickham, where he first found it twenty years ago, a most 

 remarkable discovery of a beetle new to science, and which has never 

 been taken anywhere else in the world till now ! I may mention that 

 I was dining with Mr. Wood on September 30th, and he very kindly 

 allowed me to beat eight specimens out of his fungus from West 

 Wickham. These I had killed and set, so I was well acquainted with 

 the insect. Shirley is, of course, very near to West Wickham, still it 

 is a new locality for this extremely local insect. I may say that, as 

 Mr. Wood has enough specimens for everyone who wants it, I only 

 took my series, and left the fungus where I had found it, and hope the 

 species will continue to spread. — Horace Donisthorpe. 



Criocephalus polonicus. Mots. — In my "Retrospect of a Cole- 

 opterist for 1903," published in the February number, page 29, of the 

 present volume, I accidentally omitted to state that the original dis- 

 covery of this interesting addition to our fauna, was due to Mr. F. 

 Gilbert Smith. That gentleman took larvae of this longicorn in the 

 New Forest, in Scots fir, in 1902, and it was not until the following 

 year, 1903, that iarvye were taken by Mr. Ellis in paying a visit to the 

 locality with Mr. Gilbert Smith. In iny " Retrospect " the details of 

 captures have to be very much condensed, though, in every case, a 

 careful reference is given to the original records, and it is, I fear, 

 owing to this attempt to condense the details of a year's work into two 

 or three pages that Mr. Gilbert Smith's name was unfortunately left 



