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examining the same I found three Nitidulid larvae, a pupa from which E. parvula 

 eventually emerged, and several of the perfect beetle. I sent the fungus to the 

 Director of Kew Gardens, who very kindly identified it as Daldinia concentrica, 

 Cesati, and informed me that it was the only British species of the genus, which is 

 at once distinguished from all other fungi having a somewhat similar appearance by 

 the concentric zoning of the flesh when cut open. It is found on dead trunks and 

 branches of various trees, and is common in Britain as well as throughout Kurope, 

 Siberia, North America, India, Ceylon, Borneo, Java, Tasmania and New Zealand. 

 This note, then, explains why E. parvula is so often beaten from dead branches and 

 faggots ; and a good way of disposing of the fungus after examination is to heap it 

 in a niche formed by loosening the bark of a log lying in the neighbourhood, thus 

 forming a good trap.— Richard S. Baqnall, Winlaton : September iit/i, 1906. 



Soloparamecus caularum, Aube, in the Isle of Sheppey.— On August 28th I 

 found a specimen of this rare and curious little beetle in debris of th-e " sack-heap " 

 on the premises of the Sheppey G-lue and Chemical Works at Q.ueenborough ; and 

 have since found it mgyj sparingly in siftings obtained from the heap at the same 

 time. — James J. Walker, Oxford : September 131 h, 1906. 



Aetophorus imperialis, Oerni., in Kent. — I have taken about twenty specimens 

 of Aetopliorus imperialism Germ., in a patch of reeds m ClifPe Marshes, Kent, in 

 19i 5, and in this year. As I know of no record of this rare beetle from Kent, its 

 occurrence in that county may be worth publishing. — G. W. Nicholson, Guy's 

 Hospital, London, S.E. : August \Uh, 1906. 



[In Ent. Mo. Mag., Ser. II, vol. ix, p. 114, I have recorded the occurrence of 

 Aetopliorus in March, 1898, at Funton, on the Medway Marsl-.es between Chatham 

 and Sheerness. — J. J. W.]. 



Coleoptera in Z>ezJO».— The following list, showing localities, of some of the 

 less common species which I have taken during the past twelve months, may be of 

 interest, as Devon records seem scanty : — 



Buckfastlbigh. — Hydroporus septentrionalis^ Gyll, (common), Hydrxna 

 gracilis, Germ, (two), Homalota pavens, Er., hygrotopora, Kr., aquatica, Th., and 

 cinnamoptera, Th., Ischnopoda cserulea, Sahl. (a good number in flood rubbish), 

 Staphyllnus fidvipes, Scop, (one), Sienus guynemeri, Duv., Trogophl(£us arcuatus, 

 Steph., Choleva spadicea, Stm. (two in flood rubbish), Antherophagus nigricornis, F., 

 Elmis volkmari, Pz., Cyphon pallidulus, Boh., DryophHus pusil/us, Gyll , Anaspis 

 garneysi, Fowl. 



Christow. — Bembidium monticola, Stm. (one, flood rubbish), Hydroporus 

 septentrionaliSjGjW., Habrocerus capillar icornis, Gr., IVogophloeus arcuatus, Steph., 

 Cis micans, Hbst. 



Dawlish. — Fhyllobius pomonre, v. cinereipennis, Gyll., Tychius b-lineatus, L., 

 T. tibialis, Boh., T. pygmxus, Bris. 



South Brent. — Hydroporus septentrionalis, Gyll., Ilyobates nigricollis, Pk., 

 Homalota currax, Kr., Ocypus compressus. Marsh., Philonthus carbonarius, Gyll., 

 P. umbratilis, Gr., Trogophloeus arcuatus, Steph., Leptinus testaceus, Mijll. (one, 



