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nately the weather was too cold for l^eetles to be really as abundant as one 

 expects in Jnne, but still, by persistent work, I manajjed to take some 300 

 species, a useful contribution from an unknown locality to the county list. Of 

 course many were common forms, but a few were new finds for Cumberland, 

 viz. : — 



Cicindela hybrida, L., common on sunny days on the sandhills. I was much 

 interested to find this well-known Lancashire and Cheshire insect in Cumber- 

 land. On dull days odd specimens were to be seen creeping on the sand. 

 Harpalus arixius, Duft., one specimen ; H. neglectus, Dej., fairly common on 

 the sandhills. Cillenus lateralis, Sam., one specimen on the beach. Tachinus 

 Jiavipes, F., in sheep-dung on the sandhills. Meligethes rufipes, GylL, one 

 specimen (M. lumharis, Sturm, is the common species in Cumberland). Saprinus 

 quadristriatus, Hoffm., not ruicommon on the sandhills. Corymhites holosericcus, 

 F., one specimen. Cryptocephalxi,s aureoLus, Suffr., common in flowers of butter- 

 ctip near the golf-links. Notoxus monoceros, L., common at roots of marram 

 grass. Anthicus humilis. Germ., several iinder dry bones on the beach. Hypcra 

 fasciculata, Herbst, two specimens on the sandhills. 



Among other species taken may be mentioned, several hithei'to accounted 

 rare in the cpvinty, viz.: — Amara lucida, Duft., Demctrias atricapillus, L., 

 Oyyialium Iseviusculum, GylL, Corticaria crenulata, Gyll., Eumicrus tarsatus, 

 Miill., Aphodius scyhalarius, F., Microzoum tibiale, F., and Phaleria cadaverina, 

 F.— F. H. Day, 26, Currock Terrace, Carlisle: February I7th, 1910. 



Dijtiscus marginalis, L., on the wing in February. — I was much astonished to 

 find a female example of this species in a small bath, placed to catch the over- 

 flow from a rain-water tank, at the back of my house, on February 18th last. 

 The weather was rough and stormy at the time, and the insect must have flown 

 to the spot, perhaps attracted to light, or carried there by the wind ? I have 

 occasionally captvired a Dytiscus on the wing in siunmer, when the ponds were 

 drying up, but have never before seen one on the move in winter. — G. C. 

 Champion, Horsell, Woking : March 6th, 1910. 



Coleoptera at Bude, N. Cornwall. — As the Cornish records are scanty, it may 

 be worth while noting the following species which occurred when working on 

 the marshes at Bude during two forenoons of the past winter, 27th December 

 and 5th January : Anchoynenus atratus, A. viduus, Deronectes 12-pustulatus, 

 Hydroporus discretus*, Gyrinus elongatus, G. urinator,* Actobiiis signaticornis,- 

 Othius lasviusculus, Psederus fuscipcs, Stenv,s crassus, Bythinus curtisi, and 

 Ephistemus globosus*, mostly singly. — Philip de la Garde, Manor House, 

 Shaldon, Teignmoiith : March 9th, 1910. 



Holopara.mecus caularum, Aube, and Aglenus bru7ineus, GylL, near Oxford. — 

 On March 14th I met with the first-named interesting little beetle in a hay- 

 stack (in process of removal) at Water Eaton, Oxon. An hovu-'s work on a 

 space not exceeding a foot square produced as many specimens as I cared 



* First record for the County. 



