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It would appear from the above instances that the external nervure of the 2nd 

 sub-marginal cell is that most liable to variation, there being 11 out of 11 specimens 

 with this nervure affected, the external nervure of the 1st sub-marginal is affected 

 in two cases, and that of the 3rd in one only. I have not found any peculiarity of 

 neuration among such of the Anthophila as have only two sub-marginal cells ; variation 

 in the forms of the cells is very frequently observable, and makes one doubt the value 

 that has usually been put upon neuration as a basis of classification. — Edwaed 

 Saunders, St. Ann's, Mason's Hill, Bromley, Kent : December 9tk, 1885. 



Coleoptera near Lewes. — The following notes and list of captures of Coleoptera 

 during 1885 may perhaps be of interest. I began the season by searching moss, 

 tuft pulling, &c., but insects were very scarce compared with former years; some of 

 the commonest were entirely absent, and nothing of particular note was captured. 

 About tlie middle of February I tried flood rubbish, insects were fairly plentiful, but 

 not nearly so common as in the previous year. Abbots Wood, one of our great 

 strongholds, did not produce the usual number of good things, although I worked it 

 at different times of the year. I paid two visits to Laughton Wood, and the quality 

 of insects taken there I am glad to say was a little better. I worked principally in the 

 vicinity of the town ; now and then I had a fair day, but several times I came home 

 without an insect in my bottle, which, I think, must be due in a great measure to the 

 past dry seasons. 



Appended is a list of my principal captures : — 



Pelohius tardus, Lewes, common ; Bry chins elevatus, Lewes, fairly common ; 

 Philhydrus melanocephalus, Lewes, very common, but local ; Hydrochiis angustatus, 

 Abbots Wood, common ; Ochthehius ceratus, Lewes, common ; Eydrcena nigrita, 

 Abbots Wood, common ; Stenus paUitarsis, flood rubbish, Barcombe, scarce ; Silpha 

 thoracica, Laughton Wood, scarce; Telmatophilusfyphce,liewes, sc&rce; Endomychus 

 coccineus, Lewes, scarce ; Adalia obliterata, Laughton Wood, scarce ; Chilocorus 

 simil is, Wi\e\s&eld, common ; Elmis Vol km a ri, Lewes, scarce ; Ontfwphagus vacea, 

 Abbots Wood, common ; ApJiodius erraticus, Abbots Wood, very common ; Eoma- 

 loplia ruricola, Lewes, scarce ; Brilus flavescens, Lewes, S , common ; Apion 

 punctigerum, Abbots Wood, scarce ; Briichus cisti, Lewes, common. I have also 

 taken a specimen or two of each of the following, viz.: Licinus depressus, Sphodrus 

 leucophthalmus, Hydroporus memnonius, Proteiniis atomarius, Liodes orbicularis, 

 Anisotoma duhia, Atomaria fimetarii, Cyrtotriplax bipustulatus, Athoiis niger, 

 Corymhites bipustulatus, ScapUdema ceneum, Melandrya carahoides, Pyrochroa 

 coccinea, Orchestes pratensis,Gymnetron rostellum, Apion atomarium, Apion ebeninum, 

 Rhynchites hetuleti, and Orsodac7ia cerasi. The principal part of these last were 

 taken at Laughton Wood, and Abbots Wood.-C. H. Moeris, School Hill, Lewes : 

 December, 1885. 



Sydnohius Perrisii, Si'c, near Hartlepool. -1 have been fortunate in taking a 

 good series of Bydnobius Perrisii this autumn at Hartlepool, and also three specimens 

 of Mydnobius punatatissimus, as well as the Mlowing :-Anisotoma TriepkH (5), 

 A. rugosa (3), A. duhia (8), A. calcarata (1), A. litura (1), and Colon denticnlatum 

 (1) ; Mr. W. a. Blatch, of Birmingham, has kindly named the above for me. 

 Amongst a miscellaneous lot of my first year's captures, which I sent to my friend 



