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dead leaves), Bythinus curtisi, Den., !Soronia puiictalissima, 111., S. grisea, L., 

 Rhizophagus perforatus, Er., Serica brunnea, L., Agriotes nohrinus, Kies., Eubria 

 pahistris, Grerm. (one), Chrysomela gcettingensis, L. (one), Phsedon armoracise, L., 

 Apoderus coryliy L., Polydrmua confiuens, Steph., Ceuthorrhynchus marginatus, Pk. 



Teignmouth and Shaldon. — Limnseum nigropiceum, Marsh, (one), Oxypoda 

 recondita, Kr. (in an old fence post on top of Haldon), Homaloia longula, Heer, 

 Habrocerus capillaricornls, Gr., Heterotkops prsevia, Er., Hydnoblus perrisi, Faii'in. 

 (one, sweeping), H. punctatissimiis, Steph. (one, sweeping), Catops sericatus, Ohaud., 

 Phyllotreta crucifene, Goez., P. vittula, Redt., Oncomera femorata, F., Gymnetron 

 rostellum, Hbst. 



One Cicindela gennanica, L., at Seaton in June, 1895, and two Pterostichus 

 asihiops, Pz., at Dulverton in 1892. 



I owe the identification of many of ihe above to the kindness of JVJr. E. A. 

 Newberj and Mr. J. H. Kejs. — Philip db la Gakde, Northumberland Place, 

 Teignmouth : August 28tk, 1906. 



Rhizophagus perforatus, Er., attracted by putrid meat. — On p. 94 of the Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., Yol. XXXV, Dr. Mason gives an account of this beetle being taken in the 

 carcase of a dog, cavities in the flesh of which were filled with fungus. In July 

 last I found one of the same species under somewhat similar circumstances. I had 

 " planted " an old mutton bone (cooked) to which a good deal of flesh was adhering, 

 and on taking it up after eight days found it nearly covered with mould ; actually 

 on it not a single beetle was to be seen, but among the soil which lifted with it were 

 a few common IStaphylinidfe {Homalota circellaris, &c.) and one Rhizophagus per' 

 foratus ; there was no wood, and no trace of fungus, in the ground for certainly, at 

 least, six feet around the bone. — Id. 



Melanism in Fidonia atomaria. — Whilst looking over the collection of Mr. B. 

 Morley in the spring of this year, I noticed in the series oi Fidonia atomaria several 

 specimens of a black form of the female which Mr. Morley had taken I think during 

 the previons summer on a high moor at the head of Drop Clough, Marsden, near 

 Huddersfield. Feeling sure that the form should occur on very similar ground, 

 but more readily accessible to myself, the moor adjoining Harden Clough, near this 

 town, I visited the spot on the afternoon of June 9th last. Both sexes of the moth 

 were flying freely in the hot sun, although the date was somewhat late, and I soon 

 found several of what I took to be the corresponding form of the male, although 

 they were not nearly so black as the females I had seen in Mr. Morley's cabinet, 

 being, with the exception of a small white spot on each fore-wing, of an unicolorous 

 dark purple-brown, very similar indeed, and probably identical, with the specimen 

 from the late Dr. Mason's Collection, figured on Plate 283, fig, I e, of Barrett's 

 " Lepidoptera of the British Islands." For a long time I saw no trace of the 

 female, and was on the point of coming away, when I caught sight of a small black 

 moth flying in the sun. Needless to say it was soon in the net, and proved to be as 

 anticipated a female of atomaria of glossy black, but having a small white spot on 

 each fore-wing, and the fringes also faintly spotted with white. When in the net 

 it looked and acted wonderfully like a black Syrichthus malvx, flying about in the 

 same lively manner, and settling with its wings half erect in the same position. I 



