the roots of grass, sedge, &c., it may be foiind in profusion at any time from early 

 spring until late autmnn, and is easily caught as its movements ai-e decidedly 

 sluggish. It may be readily differentiated from the allied species, A. dorsalis, F., 

 by the absence of a dorsal pore on the third elytral interstice. Fowler gives 

 the Isle of Wight and Lymington Salterns as localities for this insect, and 

 mentions it as local and rare 



Drypta dentata, Eossi. — Of this beautiful Carabid I have obtained two 

 specimens, the first on January 21st, 1909, hibernating at the roots of a tuft of 

 reeds on the undercliff, and the second on June 6th, 1909, running on a foot- 

 path in the sim al:)out thirty yards from the same spot. 



Alianta incana, Er. — The stems of the reed-mace {Typha), which grows 

 abiuidantly on the marshy spots on the undercliff, are very frequently mined 

 by a Lepidopterous larva {Nonagria typhse ?), the larva itself of course occiipying 

 biit a small fraction of the total space of its tunnel. Most of these galleries 

 that I have opened have contained, besides the larva and its frass, specimens of 

 A. incana, from five or six to twenty or more in number in each burrow. In 

 five cases in which the larva for some reason had taken its depai-ture, A. incana 

 was also absent, although the frass Avas quite moist and the burrow seemed in 

 every way suitable for this guest in spite of the absence of the host. I hope 

 to obtain fiurther light on this ciu'ious companionship. Though " in the stems 

 of reeds " is given usually as the habitat of this insect, I have not seen any 

 mention of their living together with a caterpillar in these galleries. 



Colon scrripes, Sahib. — This was a most sui-prising capture in the siunmer 

 of this year whilst grubbing at the roots of sedge, grass, &c., on a damp spot 

 on the undercliff. That the occvirrence of the species in this situation was not 

 an accidental one was proved by the fact that eight specimens in all were 

 taken, two on June 2oth and six more on Jvily 12th following. They were 

 running about the groxind on a sandy spot at the extreme edge of the under- 

 cliff where the vegetation was rather thinly distributed. All of them were 

 taken in the morning on an area which an ordinary table-cloth would cover, 

 and I have not as yet found any elsewhere nor taken them whilst sweeping 

 on the undercliff. I cannot find any mention of a similar method of capture 

 of C. serripat, all the records I have searched giving " evening sweeping " only.* 

 Mr. Philip de la Garde, however (Ent. Mo. Mag., April, 1909, p. 88), records 

 the capture of C. viennense with a water-net out of a brook, so I may mention 

 that a streamlet of water ran down the undercliff within a couple of yards of 

 where C. serripes was obtained. 



Syncalypta setigera ,111. — Two specimens of this insect have been taken 

 beneath small stones on the di'ier grassy parts of the undercliff. They are 

 exceedingly difficult to see, owing to their small size, their shape, and colour, 

 and the persistence with which they feign death, and I have no doubt they are 

 much more common than seems to be the case. This species it appears has 

 only before been recorded from Scotland (see Ent. Mo. Mag., Dec, 1871, p. 151), 

 so this is a new record for England, but there is little doubt that it must occur 



* The five specimens of Colon brunneum recorded by me (Ent. Mo. Mag., Tii, p. 137) a.s having 

 been taken out of a tuft of grass at Wickcn Fen in July, 1870, were really C. serripes. Mr. J. J. 

 Walker has also taken C. serripes in *ufts of grass in early spring at Wood Eaton, Oxen. — G. C. C. 



