326 THE entomologist's record. 



wood-mould dug out of the hollows of beech-trees. Stapkylinns 

 f-aesai-eus and S. stercorari ti.s were taken on roads. In the Clavicornia, 

 Diplocoeliis fatji, Ditoma crenata, and Pediacux dernicxUiides were taken 

 under beech -bark, and the latter was also bred from pupae taken in the 

 same way. Synchita juglandis was swept under beech-trees. A 

 " Cossus " tree yielded Cryptarcha strir/ata, Ips i-gnttahis, Epuraea 

 lO-nKttata, Thminaraea cinnamomea and Quedius viesonielmys. My little 

 boy found a nest of Bomlnts wiiscornm, near Lyndhurst, the comb was 

 in a hollow in the ground and was covered over with bits of cut-up leaves 

 and grass; this I dug up, not without a few stings, and out of it I took 

 eight specimens of ( 'ryptnphaiiiis si'tidosns (Fowler records it with Bomhiis 

 lucoriim), (Jlioleva maUoni, Brya.ris fos><idata, ()t/du>> myrinecophiluH and 

 AntJierophaffiis sjlaccns, of the latter Fowler writes " probably associated 

 with Bonibi," so it was interesting actually taking it in the nest of a 

 Bomhus. The other two British species have also been taken with Bonbi. 

 A specimen of (jeotrupcs pyrenaeus was taken on the wing near Matley 

 Bog. One of my best captures was a specimen of Trachys troylodytes, 

 which I took out of Sphaynnin in July, in the same place where I took 

 Trac/iys parruhis and Paedcriis caly/atux earlier in the year. Dorcatnma 

 chrysoriielina was taken out of rotten oak, in company, as is often the 

 case, with Myvetopha(/Ks piceus. Cis tiitidiis was taken in plenty in a 

 dry fungus, and C Impidiis occurred under beech-bark. In the Longi- 

 cornia, a nice pair of Stvanijaliu 'i-fanciata was taken off Spiraea 

 ulmaria in July, and I found the largest specimen of F'rioiius coriarins 

 I have ever seen near Lyndhurst, in August, at the base of a stack of 

 cord wood. Of the Chrysomelids, Galenica lu'bvrm was plentiful all 

 over the Forest wherever the guelder-rose occurred, and Phaedon 

 armoraciae was swept in some numbers off I'olyi/onuiii in a damp spot. 

 Crepidodera transversa and ('. ferruyinea were swept in Matley Bog in 

 cop. It is always of interest to record cases where different species are 

 found in cop. in nature. The same two species were recorded as being 

 taken in cop. at Chat Moss, by T. Morley {Knt. Mo. May., 1881, p. 

 1B5). Of the Gurculionids my best capture was Nannphyes gracilis, of 

 which rare and very local beetle I swept a nice series, in company with 

 plenty of P/iytobins naltoni and the Pliacdon ariiioraciae before men- 

 tioned. Centhorliyuchus ericae was not uncommon on heath, as was 

 Orrhestes iota on Myrica yale. Orchestes ijiierciis, (). arellavac, and (>. 

 ilicis swarmed on oak, and I beat one specimen of the very rare (J. 

 sparsus at Brockenhurst. A visit to Parley Heath, where Mr. Verrall, 

 who was staying at Ringwood, took me on his motor-car, procured 

 Pissodes notattis, swept off young pines, a new locality for this species. 

 — Horace Donisthorpe, F.Z.S., F.E.S., 5H, Kensington Mansions, 

 South Kensington, S.W. 



Coleoptera in the Hastings district. — A few excursions early in 

 the year, near Rye, yielded a few species worth recording, those marked 

 * not having been previously recorded from the district. Piylotta 

 submarina-' in some small numbers, running on the mud and under 

 small shells and pieces of rubbish, lilrdiiis bicornis'"- and B. arena riiis''- 

 (dark form) common, H. fracticnrnis''-, Actobins siynaticornis, and JAni- 

 nic/i.Ks pyymariis. On June 2nd, Mr. Donisthorpe came down to take 

 the two first- mentioned species, and besides these, which were plentiful, 

 we took llledins craasicollis and B. unicornis, llyobaies propinqiiiis, 

 SteniiK yenicnlaliis and S. canalicnlatns, Platystrthns romntus, Trof/o- 



