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From Bognor, where I spent a week early in April, I obtained Corylophus 

 suhlcBvipennis (thi'ee specimens, named for me by the Rev. A. Matthews), Achenium 

 depressum (somewhat commonly), Cassida nohilis, and several local aquatic species. 

 A small patch of sand at the base of Selsea Bill produced Phytosus spinifer and 

 Ptenidium pnnctatutn in abundance. Bryaxis Eelferi was in thovisands upon the 

 sea-wall during almost every hour of sunshine, in company with various CorticaricB, &c. 



Among some odds and ends, taken principally by desultory collecting, were 

 Orectochilus, Ceuthorrhynchus cochlearice, Phytobius velatus, and P. leucogaster, 

 from Aylsham, Norfolk ; and Platyderus, Scaphidium, and Geotrupes pyrenceus 

 from Belvedere, Kent. I suspect that P. velatus is often overlooked. I took it by 

 dragging aquatic plants, and found that in every instance it remained motionless in 

 the net for several minutes, its sombre hues rendering it very difficult to distinguish 

 among the debris. 



I may mention that, since my former note {cf. ante p. 129) I have again met 

 with Cis bilamellatus, and, on this occasion, at some little distance from West 

 Wickham. The insect appears to be, at any rate locally, abundant. — Theodore 

 Wood, 5, Selwyn Terrace, Upper Norwood : Beceynber Srd, 1884. 



Note on Barypeithes brunnipes, 01. — I am unable to find any record of this 

 insect as a destructive species, and suppose that it has been overlooked. I have 

 found it very commonly in strawberry beds, and, upon one occasion, in June, 1882, 

 every fourth or fifth berry was more or less destroyed by the insect. In almost 

 every case it seemed to enter the berry from beneath, creeping under it as it rested 

 on the ground, and then tunnelling upwards. In the same way I found a single 

 specimen of Pterostichus madidus, which appeared to have eaten away the whole of 

 the interior of a large strawberry, nothing but a thin shell remaining. — Id. 



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Coleoptera in mid -to inter. — On December 20th, I went for my holiday to Culross, 

 on the northern bank of the Forth. The weather report from there the week previous 

 was nothing but rain, therefore, I hoped to be able to collect beetles, and to find some 

 remaining fungi. Grreat was my disappointment on arrival — hard frost. No use 

 turning stones, moss and bark frozen hard, even haystacts would not yield beetles 

 the cold driving them too far in. I was determined not to return empty-handed and 

 my only chance was a running stream which separates Fife from the curiously 

 divided county of Perth ; it was bitterly cold work pulling stones out of the wateii 

 and searching them. I could only work about an hour at a time, and had three 

 hours at it, with the following result : — 4 Hydrcsna gracilis, 5 H. nigrita, 1 Elmis\ 

 ceneus, 10 E. VolJcmari, 1 E. parallelopipedus, 1 Limnius tuberculatus. The E, 

 VolJcmari were most difficult to find as they were apparently grown over by a kind] its 31 

 of green slime. 



On pulling the stones out of the water I placed them on end, and patientl 

 waited for the slightest movement, then I knew I might expect one or other species 

 the Hydrcence were difficult to get from the stones, they clung most tenaciously an 

 often lost a limb on being captured. 



I found most under the stones piled across the stream partially out of the wateiB^OD 

 and where as a consequence the water runs more rapidly. — Alfred BEAUMONiBiepafj 

 30, Lady well Park, Lewisham : Jan. 3rd, 1885. ^L. 



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