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in a heap of rubbish, consisting of old hedge trimmings, &c., and the remains (bones 

 and wool) of a long deceased sheep ; the flesh had quite disappeared, but the entire 

 heap was highly impregnated with a highly cadaveric flavour. Associated with the 

 earwigs I had the satisfaction of taking for the first time in any quantity a dozen 

 or more of the Staphylinid, Lithocharis ochracea, Grr. Both these insects are con- 

 sidered to be common and are perliaps not worth recording as captures merely, but 

 what seemed very remarkable to me at the time was the strikingly similar coloration 

 of the two insects, and finding them thus in company it seemed desirable to note 

 the fact.— Id. : Mai/, 1906. 



Eumicrus rufas, MilU., at Hendon. — Since the capture of the historic specimen 

 of Eumicrus rufus which I took in 1882, as recorded in Fowler's British Coleoptera 

 (see also Ent. Mo. Mag., xix, pp. 190, 198), I have never met with the species again 

 until this Easter, when I had the good iortune to find a colony of them in a manure 

 heap at Hendon. This is a new locality for the insect, and the habitat is somewhat 

 unusual. According to Fowler it is usually found " under bark and in rotten stumps 

 with ants." Mr. Donisthoi'pe and others have, however, taken some examples in 

 wood-stack refuse (see Ent. Mo. Mag., xxx, pp. 136, 276), and now the manure heap 

 must be added to the list. The only other thing of any importance from the same 

 heap was the interesting blind beetle, Aglenus brunneus, GrylL, of which I obtained 

 a fair number. — E. A. Btjtlbr, 53, Tollington Park, N. : May drd, 1906. 



Procas armillatus, F., near Dartford. — While collecting near Dartford with 

 my friend, Mr. K. A. K. Priske, on April 13th, I had the good fortune to pick up 

 on a dusty road a specimen of this extremely scarce weevil j it had evidently been 

 flying, as the extremities of the wings were protruding from the elytra. Although 

 it has been known as British for a considerable period, Procas armillatus has always 

 been a rare insect, and there appears to be only one modern record, namely, that of 

 Mr. J. J. Walker, who took a specimen in a tuft of grass on Darland Hill, Chatham, 

 on March ilth, 1896 i^cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., Ser. 2, vol. vii, p. 112). It is interesting 

 to note that the spot in which I took my specimen is only about 14 miles from the 

 Chatham locality, and therefoi'e in practically the same district. — F. B. Jennings, 

 152, Silver Street, Upper Edmonton, N. : May 1st, 1906. 



Gerris canaUum, I)uf.,=^najas of authors. — Last year I recorded (Ent. Rec, p. 

 47) abundance of this species on the canal at Marple, Cheshire, in September, 1904. 

 I think it worth further record that last September the species was again plentiful in 

 the same locality, and I had the good fortune to capture two specimens of the rare 

 macropterous form. — OscAB Whittaker, 39, Clarendon Road, Whalley Range, 

 Manchester: April 17 th, 1906. 



Perinephele lancealis, Schiff"., in the Isle of Purheck. — On July 15th last, at 

 6.50 p.m., I disturbed, and had the great satisfaction of securing, in a dry, sandy, 

 Scotch fir wood in this neighbourhood, a fine male specimen of Perinephele lancealis. 

 This remarkably local species has never before been met with in the Isle of Purbeck, 

 and has only once previously been taken within the confines of Dorset, the late 

 Mr. C. W. Dale having found it, in 1901, at Q-lanvilles Wootton, in the north-western 

 portion of the county, and, as the crow flies, about twenty-three miles away, as 



