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Coleoptera in the Isle of Wight. — During a stay in the Isle of Wight from 

 April 13th to April 27th, I found a few good beetles, which I have not recorded 

 before from the locality. At Yentnor, besides other beetles that have been before 

 mentioned, I took a fair series of Micralymma brevipenne crawling in the sun over 

 wet rocks below high-water mark ; Tachyusa sulcata was more plentiful than I have 

 before seen ib at this place, and on one warm evening I took about a hundred spe- 

 cimens of JPtenidium punctatum, and might have taken as many more. 



On April 20th, which was a warm sunny day. Dr. Sharp and Mr. G-orham came 

 over from Southampton, and we had an afternoon's collecting at Luccombe Chine ; 

 our object was to get Chlcenius Schrankii, but although it seemed likely weather for 

 it, we found that the exact locality had been ruined by cultivation. We obtained, 

 however, several good insects from cut reeds and rubbish and the damp gi'ound be- 

 neath ; the best, perhaps, were Drypta and Stenolophus flavicollis, of each of which 

 we took about nine specimens ; we also found Chlcenius vestitus, a rather dark 

 variety of Leistus fulvibarbis, Poederus fuscipes, Tachyporus formosus, Lathrobium 

 angustatum, Philordhus umbratilis, Bythinus Curtisii, Corylophus sublcevipennis, 

 Agathidium Icevigatum, Atomaria herolinensis, Myllcena brevicornis, and another 

 species of Myllcena not yet determined. On the side of the cliff and in sandy 

 places below, three species of Bledius occurred, B. opacus, B. longulus, and B. 

 atricapilhis. In and near the mud and sand in some damp places we found 

 Heterocerus Icevigatus a,r\Afusculus, Philonthus signaticornis, Platystethus nodifrons, 

 Mycetoporus splendidus, Sunius intei-mediiis, Dyschirins cenetis, Tachys bistrlatus, 

 and a small variety of Bemhidium quadriguttatum, which we at first hoped might 

 be B. quadripusfulatum, as it seemed to resemble that insect in size ; on some damp 

 ground near the side of a drain I found a single specimen of Limnichtis pygmcsus. 

 At the top of the Chine, by putting grass into a nest of Formica fuliginosa and ex- 

 amining it two or three days afterwards, I secured a fair series of Myrmedonia 

 laticollis. 



On April 21st we tried Black Gang Chine, but found nothing. Dr. Sharp and 

 Mr. G-orham then went on to Freshwater and Yarmouth, while I returned to Yent- 

 nor ; on the way they took Badister peltatus, which has not before, I believe, been 

 recorded from the Island, Drypta (one specimen), Stenolophus Shrim shir anus, 

 Bembidium assimile, Linmichus pygmcBus, and a variety of Lathrobium terminatum, 

 with the usual yellowish spots at the apex of the elytra wanting. Near Yentnor, 

 Dr. Sharp took a single specimen of Adelosia (Pterostichus) picima^na. 



Bees were fairly plentiful, but appeared to belong to but few species ; Andreua 

 fulvicrus was very abundant on the sides of the cliffs near Sandown. I found a few 

 JEemiptera, the only one that I have not observed before being Piesma quadrata, 

 which was abundant at the roots of plants near the shore.— W. W. Fowlee, 

 Lincoln : May IQth, 1885. 



Agapanthia lineatocolUs, Don., near Lincoln.— On the afternoon of Thursday, 

 June 11th, I found Agapanthia lineatocolUs in some numbers at Langworth Wood, 

 near Lincoln, on a small bed of Heracleum sphondylium (cow parsnip) at the side of 

 a drive ; the plants showed no sign of flower, but the beetles were basking in the 

 sun on the leaves. There were a few thistles among the plants, but from these I 



