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Capture of Tachinus rufipennis in Yorkshire. — On the 9t}i of April last, I beat 

 out of a dead grouse, on a moor near Kettlewell, in Yorksliire, a single specimen of 

 Tachinus rufipennis. It was named by Mr. Crotcli, who has compared it for me 

 with the first specimen recorded as British, from Mr. WoUaston's collection. — 

 W. C. Marshall, Trinity College, Cambridge : 2.hth October, 1872. 



Notes on Coleoptera at Caterham, Swrrey. — Having during the past year had 

 occasional opportunities for an hour or two's collecting, on the chalk hills, &c., in 

 the neighbourhood of Caterham, Surrey, I thought a few notes on the Coleoptera 

 observed there by me would not be uninteresting to the readers of this Magazine. 

 Several of the species taken, were for the first time seen alive by me, and a few new 

 to my collection. The following list does not, I believe, by any means exliaust the 

 locality, as most of my collecting, has been over the same ground, and even there 

 each successive visit has invariably produced some species not previously seen. The 

 majority of the better species only occurred singly, and several of my captures were 

 evidently " flukes." 



The following list include the better species met with, viz. : — Panagceus 4<-pustu- 

 latus, in moss. Oxypoda nigrina, by sweeping. Somalota hepatica, once brushed 

 from herbage at the side of a shady lane ; S. scapularis, intermedia and vali- 

 diiiscula, by sweeping. Mycetoporus brunneus, clavicornis and lotigulus, by eweeping 

 towards evening ; M. Planus, in moss on a chalky bank, in winter. Ocypus morio 

 (small form) and similis, in moss. Staphyliniis latebricola, once in moss in a chalky 

 hollow, in April ; S. stercorarius, running about in the sunshine. Stenics ater and 

 fuscipes, in moss. Somalium pygmceum, on the wing. Pseudopsis, brushed up. 

 Colon Zebei, a fine <? , brushed up towards evening, August 6th. C. briinneum, 

 Huthia plicata, Scydmanus denticornis, elongatulus, and Sparshalli, by evening 

 sweeping. S. prceteritus, Eye, one specimen in moss with ants, April, and a second 

 swept up in July. Sydnobius strigosus, a few specimens, by evening sweeping in Jidy 

 and August. Anisotoma cinnamomea, rarely, by evening sweeping ; A. grandis (?), 

 one very large $ specimen, swept towards evening from long gi'ass and Merciirialis 

 under some old beech trees, in August ; A. badia (in moss), dubia, ovalis, parvula 

 (occasionally), and, of coiu'se, calcarata, by evening sweeping. Agaricophagus 

 cephalotes, a ^ and $ swept up towards evening on two different occasions in Sep- 

 tember. Cyrtusa pauxilla (minuta, Wat. Cat.) and Colenis dentipes, by evening 

 .. .. eeping. Saprinus virescens, by sweeping on chalk downs. Meligethes is well repre- 

 sented in this district, as I have here found 23 of our 32 British species, the most 

 noteworthy being M. corvinus, three specimens (Ent. Mo. Mag., ix, p. 37), taken by 

 sweeping Agraphis nutans (wUd hyacinth), Mela/inpyrwm pratense, &c., in a wood, in 

 company with a few specimens each of symphyti and Kunzei, at the end of May ; 

 M. dijpcilis, memnonius, brunnicornis, pedicular ius, umbrosus, ovatus, and distinctus, 

 by promiscuous sweeping ; bidens, off Teucrium, as usual ; serripes, rarely, on 

 JEchium vulgare ; lugubris (the larger form rare, the smaller tolerably common), by 

 sweeping, also in moss in winter ; and a ? specimen of a species probably distinct 

 from erythropus, and in that case most likely bidentatus, Bris., by sweeping on the 

 chalk. Lamophlceus ferrugineus, under bark of elm : this generally occurs with me 

 in haystack refuse. Phalacrus Humberti, Toum. Olibrus millefolii, Antherophagus 

 silaceus (once) and nigricornis, by promiscuous sweeping. Cryptophagus pubescens 



