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attention, it was put into a small tin box and forgotten. On an occasion in the 

 following summer I happened to open the box, and saw therein a few little beetles 

 and a small amount of powder consisting of their excrement. The beetles were Cis 

 bidentatus, and were new to me. Wishing to procure more of the beetles, and no 

 Polyporus being available, it struck me tliat a piece of stale bread might serve them 

 as a substitute. Such a bit of bread was placed in the bos with them. In a day or 

 two after the creatures were found to have mined the bread just as they would their 

 natural food. As the bread diminished in size and became discoloured, fresh pieces 

 were put in from time to time. Soon hundreds of larvae were pei-ceptible, and later 

 hundreds of perfect beetles ; and during the remainder of that and the next year 

 several broods of tlie creatures were reared, filling several large tins, when, tiring of 

 the business, I turned them out to get their own living. Some were tried on thick 

 orange peel, and they took greedily to the white inner riud, burying themselves 

 therein. This substitute food was so liable to become mouldy that I discontinued 

 the experiment. At that time the Rev. Theodore Wood helped me to two or three 

 living specimens of Cis bilamellatus, too few to be of much use by themselves. I 

 therefore tried to breed more from them on stale bread, and succeeded in rearing 

 sufficient for my collection. — J. E. Fletcher, Worcester : March, 1895. 



Rare Hydradepliaga near West Ayton, Yorkshire. — I am glad to be able 

 to record a new locality for Hydroporas oblongus. Last summer I took about a 

 score at the mossy edges of a shallow pool in the vicinity of this village. The 

 locality closely resembled the Askham Bog habitat, and many of the same insects 

 accompanied it, e. g., H. vittula, granularis, atriceps, umhrosus and memnonius. I 

 also took Agabus uliginostts in the same spot. I have recently taken //. discretus in 

 a pool on Filey Cliffs, and many melanarius on these moors, with tristis. — W. C 

 Hey : March, 1895. 



Hydroporus incognitus and Agalus tarsatus near Whitby, Yorkshire. — When 

 searching for Coleoptera in Arncliffe Wood, near Whitby, on September 4th last 

 year, a small pool (about three feet wide) near a watercourse came under my ob- 

 servation. It proved to contain a considerable number of water-beetles (a dozen 

 species), among which Hydroporus incognitus, Sharp, occurred in profusion. The 

 comparing of another insect with an example oi Agalus tarsatus, Zett. {melanarius, 

 Aube), revealed the probability of its belonging to that rare species, and the opinion 

 has subsequently been confirmed by Dr. Sharp in his examination of the specimen. — 

 M. L. Thompson, Saltburn-by-the-Sea : February 2,0th, 1895. 



A List of Coleoptera for Notts. — I should be very glad of the help of any of 

 the readers of this Magazine in drawing up a list of the species of Coleoptera 

 occurring in this County. The records in the Ent. Mo. Mag. have been well searched, 

 and no doubt most, if not all, of the rarities occurring in the County have been 

 noted. What is most wanted are records of the commoner species. The list at 

 present comprises 600 species, many of them of extreme rarity, and some unique in 

 this country. I shall be very pleased to enter into communication with any one 

 who will help. — Alfred Thornley, South Leverton Vicarage, by Lincoln : 

 March, 1895, 



