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The Collection Fairmaire. — It niaj iiilerest some of the readers of this Maga- 

 zine to know that the collection of the late Monsieur Leon Fairmaire has been 

 purchased in its entirety for the Museum of Paris. I believe in late years Mons. 

 Fairmaire received important collections from Tongking and Madagascar, and the 

 " types " in this collection must be very numerous. — G. Lewis, 87, Frant Road, 

 Tunbridge Wells : August, 1906. 



Quedius lonc/icornis, Kr., in Suffolk. — I hare lately discovered a new mode of 

 collecting beetles : moles were so great a pest in my garden here in the spring of 

 1905, that I laid a simple trap for them by sinking a bucket in the ground beneath 

 their runs. Upon examination, these traps were found to contain not only nioles 

 but beetles. One of the above very rare species was taken thus on March 22nd j 

 and on April 2nd several Homalotae, Quedius picipes and Choleva agilis, in 

 abundance. 



I am hoping by this means to discover Quedius vexans, which I believe has 

 been recently taken in England. It was first described by Eppelsheim in the Deutsch. 

 Ent. Zeit., 1881, p. 297; and is snid by Ganglbauer (Die Kafer von Mitteleuropa, 

 ii, 391) to occur very rarely in Schlesia, Bohemia, and Eastern Prussia. Like Q. 

 longicornis, it has the elytra and legs red j in other respects it agrees with Q. meso- 

 melinus, from which it is distinguished by its much smaller eyes. The depth of the 

 dorso-lateral thoracic punctiiration at once renders it distinct from Q. ochripennis, 

 Men. {=^ puncticollis, Thoms.). — Claudb Moeley, Monks' Soham House, Suffolk: 

 August 3rd, 1906. 



Beilephila livornica, Esp., at IVoking. — On the afternoon of August 8th I 

 captured, on a small shrub in our garden, a specimen of the above moth in excellent 

 condition, and I thought perhaps its capture would be worth noticing in your 

 Magazine. — Percy C. Smith, Tamerton, Woking: August I6th, 1906. 



Leucania faoicolor, Barrett^ in the Isle of Sheppey. — Whilst sugaring for 

 Mamestra abjecta on the Medway Marshes, near Queenborough, at the beginning 

 of last month, 1 was fortunate in taking several specimens of Leucania favicolor, 

 Barrett, both the red and yellow forms being represented. This is, I believe, the 

 first record of tlie species in the Isle of Sheppey. — J. J. Jacobs, 63, Marine Parade, 

 Sheerness-on-Sea : August loth, 1906. 



Aristotelia lucidella, Steph. — I had long suspected that the larva of this 

 Gelechia fed in the stems of Eleocharis palustris (as well as in those of Scirput 

 lacustris) ; I am now able to prove it. On July 4th I noticed a small bed of Eleo- 

 charis growing in a damp place at the bottom of an old stone pit, and finding a fine 

 large form of Bactra furfurana (more or less worn at this date) I cut a handful of 

 the stems, thinking that I might breed one or two late specimens of this Tortrix ; 

 however, none appeared, but on the 7th a fine lucidella came out. Of course the 

 two genera Eleocharis and Scirpus are very closely allied, treated as one by some 

 authors, so perhaps the discovery is not a very startling one ; however, I thought it 

 might be worth recording.— A. Thuknall, Whitehall Road, Thornton Heath : 



August 8th, 1906. 



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