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Coleoptera captured in Sherwood Forest, June, 1906.— Notwithstanding the 

 dryness of the past summer, and the consequent dearth of insects generally, the 

 following list of captures by Dr. Chaster or myself at Sherwood may prove of 

 interest : — Anitys rubens, Hoffm. : we were delighted to find a few examples of 

 this species, together with several of its larvae,* in a very rotten damp knot of an 

 old fallen oak, which also produced Dorcatoma chrysomelina, Stm., and Xylophilus 

 ocidatus, G-yll. Pyropterus offinis, Payk, : many specimens, from the dry rotten 

 d4hris of an old oak stump, either crawling sluggishly about or hiding in the 

 crevices of the bark. Cistela ceramhoides, L. : two females taken at rest by 

 Dr. Chaster on a fallen oak, and a pair beaten by myself from an old oak ; last year 

 I captured two males and two females in the same way. Liodes orbicularis, 

 Herbst, Amphicyllus globus, F., and Aspidiphorus orbiculatus, Gryll. : frequent, 

 about fungi. Callidium variabile, L. : abundant under bark of fallen oak branches^ 

 Corymbites xneus, L., a few specimens, and Cryptocephalus coryli, L., females only, 

 on young birches. Ptilimis pectinicornis, L. : abundant, under beech bark, boring 

 into the solid wood, females only seen. Rhizophagus nitidulus, F., numerous 

 examples, Agathidium nigripenne, Kug., and Pediacus dermestoides , F., sparingly, 

 under beech bark. Mycetochares bipustulata, 111. : under bark of very old rotten 

 oaks. Athous rhomheus, 01., and Haplocnemus impressus, Marsh. : beaten out of 

 old oaks. — J. KiDSON Taylor, 45, South Avenue, Buxton : October 19tk, 1906. 



Otiorrhynchus morio, F., v. eheninus, Gyll., in Sutherland. — In the early part of 

 June, 1901, while on a fishing and botanising expedition in this far northern 

 county, I met with this interesting rarity. On the 6th of the month I had left my 

 friends in their boat to continue their sport, and while walking on the road passing 

 along the shore of Loch Assynt, about five miles from Lochinver, I found an 

 Otiorrhynchus crawling on the road. It occurred where a belt of dwarf, stunted 

 Scotch pines crosses and for some distance borders the road. On my return home 

 I found that the insect differed from both 0. tenebrieosus, Herbst, and 0. fuscipes^ 

 Walt., in that the legs and antennae were black and the punctuation of the elytra 

 quite different. Last month I sent one of the specimens to my friend Mr. Newbery, 

 who now returns it as O. morio, F., v. eheninus, Gyll. He says : I am returning 

 the Otiorrhynchus as morio, v. ebeninus, as T thought ; it agrees with some in the 

 General Collection at the British Museum, and also fairly well with the specimen 

 in the Power Collection, except that yours is smaller. I have no doubt as to the 

 correctness of the name, and think your capture should be recorded, as the species 

 has not been taken for many years, and I had doubts myself as to whether it was 

 not extinct. — Id. j» 



Medon castaneus, Grav., at Guildford. — Amongst a few beetles captured by 

 my sons at Guildford, on October 24th, the following are noteworthy -.—Medon 

 castaneus, Grav., Notiophilus rufipes. Curt., and Ocypus compressus, Marsh., all 

 found under stones, or at the roots of elms, in a sandy field. Oxytelus fairmairei, 

 Pand., and Thalycra sericea, Sturm, were also taken by them in the same district 

 on September 1st.— G. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking : November lOth, 1906. 



* Some of these have since been reared by Dr. Chaster. 



