] '> [June, 



Captures of Coleoptera near Maidstone. — By way of completing the list of 

 noticeable species which I met with at Bcarsted, I send a supplementary account of 

 such as were not enumerated at pp. 155 and 254 of vol. vii. These are : — Bemhidium 

 hruxellense, B. Mannerhehnei (abundant in a wet place), StiUcus fragilis (one only), 

 Thiasophila inqiiiUna and Amphotis marginata with Formica fuliginosa, Ocyusa 

 picina (by cutting rushes), Quedius truncicola, Gyrophcena strictula, Somalimn 

 salicis (three, in a hayrick), Quedius scintillans (not uncommon in hayricks and 

 elsewhere), Stenus contractus, S. major, Monotonia spinicoUis, ii-ericoUis, and 

 quadricollis, Atomaria gittta, Boris T-album, Ceuthorliynclius alliariae, urticcs, 

 siitureUus and cochleariae, OtiorhyncTiiis raucus, MetaUites (in abundance on one 

 broom plant, with Polydrusvs confluens), Apion punctigerum, Tychius piygmceus, 

 Cceliodes suhrtcfus, Ochthehius bicolon and rvjimarginatus, and Corylophus cassi- 

 doides (common). — H. S. GoRHAM, Rusper Rectory, Horsham: May 14^/i, 1872. 



Note on Mind beetles in bees'-)iests. — Some time ago (Ent. Mo. Mag. vi, p. 89) I 

 recorded the occurrence of Leptinus in bces'-nests. I have now to add that another 

 of our indigenous blind species, Adelops Wollastoni, was found by me in the same 

 habitat, at Staple, in Kent, last summer. This nest contained in addition a great 

 number of CryptopJiagus setulosus, and was enveloped in a web formed by a colony 

 of the larvEe of one of the large honey-moths. — Id. 



Hydradephaga near York. — I have captured the following species at Askham 

 Bog, during the season of 1871, and possess such of them as are marked * in dupli- 

 cate. HaUpliis obliquus, *Hydroporus decoratus (local here), *H. dorsalis, *II. 

 rufifrons, H. xanthopus, *H. oblongns (first taken here, I believe, by the Rev. W. Hey : 

 this appears to be the only known British locality for the insect), *S. memnonius , 

 H. melanarius (one only), *-ff. obscurus, *1I. tristis, H. melanocephalus, *1I. 

 GyllenJialii, *JI. angnstatus, *II. umbrostis, *II. neglectiis (two specimens here, and 

 about fifty at Stockton Common : these appear to be the only recorded captures in 

 this country of this species since it was first discovered by Dr. Power), *II. Scalesi- 

 anus (apparently confined to the York district, where it was first taken by Mr. Hey) , 

 *II. vittula, *n. granulatus (also *H. reticulatus, from the river Foss), * Colymbetes 

 exoletus (common), C bistriatus (a few), *C. Orapii, *Agabus agilis, *A. abbrevi- 

 atus, *A. femoralis, *A. Stiirmii, A. dispar (a few), *A. congener, *A. didymus, 

 *A. chalconotus, Dyti.icus punctulatus, and *Hydaticiis transversalis (in plenty). 



In the Philhydrida, Heterocerus femoralis, *Berosus signaticollis (in abun- 

 dance), and *Cyclonotum orbicidare. — H. Hutchinson, 21, St. Anne's Street, Ceme- 

 tery Road, York : April, 1872. 



Note on. capture of Agriotes sordidns. — I have, during the past winter, taken a 

 (J example of Agriotes sordidus. 111. (recorded as British on the authority of a sin- 

 gle specimen taken long ago by Mr. Wollaston, at Southend), out of flood-refuse, on 

 the banks of the Thames at Hampton ; and, on looking over some unexamined Agriotes 

 in my collection, I find I have two more, a (J and $ , taken in flood-refuse on the 

 banks of the Medway, near Chatham, in April, 1871. My insects are almost of the 

 same size and build as A. obscurus, from which they differ in the more slender joints 

 of their antenna?, and their more shining thorax, &c. ; being in fact alHed to A. spu- 

 tator, from which (hey difl'cr (apart from their large]- size and flatter appearance) in 



