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County Records of Coleoptera.—Mr. Donisthorpe makes a very sound sugges- 

 tion in the May number of this Magazine as to the indication by an asterisk 

 of new county records, but some much more definite basis is needed to make 

 it practicable. Either one must take some recognised starting-point to work 

 upon, such as the lists given in the " Victoria County Histories," as hitherto 

 published, or Eecorders must be appointed for the various counties, to whom 

 reference can be made regarding additions to the County list. Eeference to 

 Fowler's Coleoptcra is precluded in cases where no list of localities is appended, 

 and one cannot assume the occurrence in any particular county of every species 

 of general distribution. I have been mxich impressed in working up the beetles 

 of Herefordshire— which is almost virgin ground to the Coleopterist— by the 

 great rarity or apparent absence of many species which I had always regarded 

 as of general occurrence, and every student of geographical distriliution must 

 have had similar experience, I would therefore emphasize the importance of 

 complete county lists, and not merely records of rarities. The notes to which 

 Mr. Donisthorpe refers are, as the title implies, entirely concerned with 

 Herefordshire, whereas " the Malvern Hills " as usually so-called, lie entirely 

 in Worcestershire. It is true that the Herefordshire Beacon is in the county 

 to which its name refers it, but I had, before writing my notes, taken the 

 precaution to ascertain from Canon Fowler that his records from " the Malvern 

 Hills" related entirely to Worcestershire. — J. R. le B. Tomlin, Eeading : 

 Ma%j \Uh, 1910. 



A Tasmanian iveevil found alive at Willesde^i. — Mr. G. C. Doughty, of 27, 

 South Molton Street, W., has recently sent me a peciiliar Curculionid for 

 determination, stating that it was found crawling on the sideboard of a house 

 at Willesden Green, in June, 1908. The insect in question proves to be Gonixdcrus 

 lepidotus, Gyll., and, from what Mr. Doiighty tells me, it was no doubt introduced 

 in a barrel of apples purchased the preceding winter.^ — G. C. Champion, Horsell, 

 Woking : May 19th, 1910. 



An early specimen of Tryphsena pronuba. — Mr. L. S. Brady allows me to 

 record that he took " an absolutely perfect specimen of the ordinary dark form 

 of Tryphsena pronuba," at sugar, near Sheffield, on April 20th last. Surely this 

 is a "record" early appearance of such a smnmer-loving moth. — Geo. T. 

 PoRRiTT, Dalton, Huddersfield : May 14i/i, 1910. 



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George William Chaster, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., died on May 5th, at Southport, 

 Lancashire, aged 47, succumbing after four days' suffering from an attack of 

 pleuro-pneumonia. He was one of the Founders of the Southport Natvu-al 

 Science Society, and for a number of years was Editor of the Proceedings of 

 that Society, contributing various papers on the Foraminifera of the district. 

 He also took great interest in the Mollusca and Coleoptera, and was well known 

 to British Entomologists as an enthusiastic collector. From time to tune he 



