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on May 25th ; we beat them from hawthorn blossom and from various trees. Plectro- 

 cnemia conspersa was fairly abundant with several of the common Limnophili 

 about ponds. 



Heteroptera, like the Diptera, were very scarce, but amongst them, too, one good 

 species was taken ; this was Metatropis rufescens : it was swept at sundown in a 

 swampy wood. Eurygaster maurus was also swept from a swamp, as were Cymus 

 glandicolor and Miris calearatus. Harpocera thoraciea, Cyllocoris Ravonotatus , 

 with other common things, wore beaten, and Oerris paludum and gib b if era noted on 

 ponds, the former by no means commonly. 



Ipswich : June 15th, 1895. 



Ten days in the New Forest. — I went down on May 31st to Brockonhurst for a 

 few days' collecting. The first day being wet I spent at Lyraington in the Salterns, 

 where I obtained Bryaxis Waterhousei, Polydrusus chrysomela, Aepus marinus and 

 Robinii. In the Forest on the whole I was most successful, taking such very rare 

 things as Anthaxia nitidala, Colydium elongatum, and Plegaderus dissectus. 



Among the other things I took wliich are worth recording were — Carabus 

 arvensis and nitens, Lebia chlorocephala, CaLosoma inquisitor, Agathidium nigripenne 

 and nigrinum, Xyletinus ater, Abdera bifanciata, Litargus bifasciatus, Conopalpus 

 testaceus, Silpha '^■punctata and thoraciea, Brachytarsus varius, Melasis bupres- 

 toides, Athous vittatus, Aphodius depressus , Orchesia undulata, Corymbites hipustu- 

 latus, Ips quadriguttata, Cryptarcha strigata and imperialis, Epurma decemguttata, 

 Soronia punctatissima, Thymalus limbatus, Homalota cinnamomea,Tachinus proximus, 

 Mordellistena abdominalis, Elater Irythropterus, Ischnomera sanguinicollis and 

 coerulea, Pyrochroa coccinea, Trox sabidosus, Tillus elongatus (males and females), 

 Tomoxia biguttata, Paromalus flavicornis, Omosita depressa, Dacne humeralis, Cistela 

 ceramhoides, Cytilus varius, Phlceotrya Stephensi. 



The following Longicornia occurred : — Callidium violaceiim and variabile, Clytus 

 arietis, Liopus nebulosus, Shagium inquisitor and bifasciatum, Toxotus meridianus, 

 Strangalia melanura and nigra, Leptura scutellata, Anoplodera sexguttata. Gram- 

 moptera tabacicolor, analis, ruficornis, and ustulata, Pogonocherus dentatus and hispi- 

 dus, 3Iesosa nubila. All these I took myself, except the last two, which were found 

 by Mr. Bouskell, of Leicester. I was also fortunate enough to take a specimen of 

 Cicadetta montana. — Horace Donisthoepe, 73, West Cromwell Road, South 

 Kensington : June IQth, 1895. 



Ceuthorrhynchidius Crotchi, Ch. Bris. — The following extracts from a note 

 communicated by M. Louis Bedel, of Paris, are of interest to British Coleoptcrists : 

 " I have recently examined the types of C. Crotchi, Ch. Bris., described from 

 England only, from specimens communicated by Crotch, and find that they are from 

 Madeira! C. Crotchi, moreo\er, is not different from C. nigroterminatus,'Wo\\.,n, 

 Madeiran insect ; the first mentioned is treated as a variety of C. quercivola, Payk., 

 by Fowler and Sharp, but it is distinct from tliat species." The name C. Crotchi 

 must be, in any case, erased from the British list, and, no doubt, C. nigroterminaliis 

 also ; the latter is probably distinct from C. mixtus, Muls. and Rey, of which it is 

 given as a synonym by Fowler and fcjharp. — G. C. Champion, Horscll, Woking: 

 July \2th, 1895. 



