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Note on Ci/mindis lineafa, Dej. — This insect, attributed by Fairniaire (Faune 

 Eiit. FraiKj., i, p. 31) and Schamn (Ins. Deutschl., i, p. 298, note) to C. homagrica, 

 Duft. (axillaris, F.), as a variety, occurring in the south of France with the type 

 form, has not, I think, been hitherto recorded as British (unless, as is not improbable, 

 the insects refei'red to by Stephens under the names aiifjularis, Gryll., and macularis, 

 Fisch., are to be referred to it), but may now be included with certainty in our list, 

 as I have detected an individual of it among some specimens from Box Hill in my 

 own collection. C. lineata is described by Fairmaire as having the humeral spot 

 prolonged to the apex of the elytra, fonning a slightly inwardly oblique band, some- 

 times constricted or even widely interrupted in the middle, and of variable width. 

 In my example, this band is represented by a narrow longitudinal isolated streak 

 of yellowish colour in the apical third of the elytra, not quite reaching the apex 

 itself, and situated on the 3rd and 4th interstices. I observe in other ordinary 

 examples that the suture is more or less yellowish. — E. C. Rye, Park Field, Putney, 

 S.W. : August, 1873. 



Note on capture of Lgmexylon navale. — On the 19th inst., I succeeded in 

 finding three specimens of Lymexi/lon navale in the solid wood of the tree upon 

 which Mr. Chappell found that species last year ; I also found some larvae of the 

 species in the wood. On the 21st, I again found one of the perfect insects in the 

 same tree, and " prospected " other likely trees, but saw no traces of the holes made 

 by the beetle. However, as I was examining a ti-ee, I saw a creature flying, and 

 made a dart at it, and it tm-ned out a 9 Lymexylonl On the 25th, I got two more; 

 one flying, the other at rest, — but no more from the old tree. I was sorry to find 

 the specimens I got out of the tree on the first occasion were slightly injured. — 

 J. E. SiDEBOTHAM, 19, Greorge Street, Manchester : July, 1873. 



Magdalinus carhonarius in Northumberland. — Althovigh I have for many years 

 had in my collection two local examples of Magdalinus carhonarius, Linn., I could 

 never learn the place where, nor the plant on which, they where found ; it was, 

 therefore, with great pleasure that I received from Mr. James Hardy a fine female, 

 taken on birch at Langley-ford Hope, near Wooler, on the 4th June last. That date, 

 however, may be somewhat later than its usual time of appearance, for the season 

 here has been very backward, most of the trees, &c., being fully a month late in 

 leafing. Curtis informs us that he found the specimen he figures on the hazel, near 

 Ambleside, on June 19th. Gyllenhal says of the ? {carhonarius, Linn.), " Habitat in 

 "foliis Sorbi, Betuljje, Coryli;" and of the S {atratus, GylL), "in floribus Pruni 

 "sphiosse et Ci'atregi oxyacanthae. — Tnos. Jno. Bold, Long Benton, Newcastle- 

 on-Tyne : July 1th, 1873. 



An Australian heetle near London. — A specimen of the Australian Coleopterous 

 insect, Tropis dimidiata, was captured on the wing at South Kensington on the 8th 

 inst., by Mr. R. A. Thompson, of the South Kensington Museum. It has been 

 identified by Mr. F. P. Pascoe, to whom I showed it at a meeting of the Kensington 

 Entomological Society. — Richard Cowper, 3, The Residences, S. K. Museum : 9th, 

 August, 1873. 



Captures of Coleoptera in North Kent. — I have again no reason to complain of 

 any want of success in my hunting for Coleoptera, the following species having 

 occurred to me since the middle of March last. The wliole of them have, as before, 

 been consigned to my friend Mr. Champion, to whom I am indebted for most of the 

 names. 



