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Geranium sylvaticuin. Magdalimis dtqiUcafits ; very rare, beaten from young firs on 

 the top of a low mountain. 31. phlegmaticus and Rhinomacer ; tolerably common 

 by beating freshly cut pine tops. Hylurgus minor; rare, under pine bark. Xylo- 

 terus Uneatus ; boring in solid wood of fir. Asemum, I'ogonocheriis fasciculatus ; by 

 beating pines. ChrysomeJa marginafa; sweeping by river. — G. C. Champion, 274, 

 Walworth Road, London, S. : September 13th, 1873. 



Notes on Coleoptera at Usher. — Having had an occasional afternoon's sweeping 

 at Esher since last July, I have met with the following rather rare species (in addi- 

 tion to many others that have already been recorded from that locality) : — Oyrophcena 

 ptdchella ; in fungus, rare. Stenns brevicollis ; by sweeping in a marshy place. 

 Sihanm similis ; two specimens, swept from under fir trees, under the bark of 

 which it doubtless lives. Atomaria badia ; three examples, also swejit fi'om under 

 fir trees. Ap ion sang uineum ; two specimens. Bagoiis hdulosus ; rarely, by sweep- 

 ing in a marshy place. Nanophyes gracilis ; about a dozen examples : the species 

 was generally to be found on each visit, but never in any numbers (owing, perhaps, 

 to my inability to discover its food plant), by sweeping in one little marshy place. 

 —Id. : October 1th, 1873. 



Coleoptera at Holy Island and Deal. — A stay at Holy Island, off the coast of 

 Northumberland, during the greater part of the month of August, gave me an 

 opportunity of investigating the Coleoptera of this rather promising-looking locality ; 

 my chief coUectmg-ground being the sand-hills which extend almost round the 

 entire island, and which are covered with a heavy growth of " marram " grass 

 (among which Miana arcuosa flew in swamis at sunset), ragwort, Ischium, Cyuo- 

 glossum, &c., &c. Unfortunately, the weather was so bad, during the whole of my 

 stay, that my success was very limited, the following being, perhaps, the only note- 

 worthy species out of fully 200 which came under my observation : — Agathidium 

 marginatum, Anisotoma diibia (quite abundant, as many as 40 occurring in one after- 

 noon), Meligethes serripes, Salpingus ater (1), Aphodius lividus, Ceuthorhynchideus 

 versicolor, &c., by sweeping on the sand-hills ; Bembidium pallidipenne, under tidal 

 refuse ; Staphylinus stercorarius, rarely, under stones ; JVecrodes littoralis, several, 

 in a large dead fish on the beach ; Morychus ceneus (mostly defunct), under Ononis ; 

 Serica brunnea, very common under stones, in moss, and flying at sunset ; and 

 Psylliodes marcida, common, on Calcile maritima. 



At Deal, in September, my success was much better, the following, among many 

 others, occurring to me in a few afternoons work on the sand-hills : — Saprinus 

 metallicus, about half a dozen, mostly crawling on bare sand in the hollows ; in this 

 way I found also Syncalypta hirsuta, Psammodius sulcicollis, Helops pallidus, &c., 

 &c. Calodera umbrosa, Aphanistictts pusillus, Dorcatoma bovistce, Apion dissimile, 

 Rhinoncus inconspectus, and Ilippodamia 13-piinctata, occurred by promiscuous 

 sweeping on the sand-hills, &c. ; Ceuthorhynchns vicinus (some ten specimens), 

 and C. Chevrolati (one only), by persistently sweeping Achillea millefolium ; Maso- 

 reus, Hovialota ccesula, and Sister bissexstriatus, in moss ; and a few Lixus hicolor 

 under its favourite Erodium cicutarium. — J AMES J. Walkeb, R.N., H.M.S. "Ariel," 

 Portsmouth : bth October, 1873. 



