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river Ravcnsbourne. For tliem to assemble and frolic in such orderly and peculiar 

 manner only about the top of the highest tree is not without parallel in otlier orders 

 of insects ; the exercise is evidently one of enjoyment, and most likely may be 

 considered as a hymeneal celebration, and of specific importance. — Id. 



Melanostoma hyalitmtum, ^"c., in the Neio Forest. — The past summer seems to 

 have been favourable to this fly, and I took nine males and nine females at Lynd- 

 hurst during the first fortnight of August. I then left, but it was still out, and I 

 hear of its also having been taken in other counties, as well as in Ireland. A few 

 years back I took a single male in the same locality, but was doubtful about the 

 species, as the British Museum collection then only contained a female, and the sexes 

 differ materially. Mr. Verrall informs me he has not taken this insect for about 

 twenty-five years. I also saw a nice specimen of Callicera aenea, which had been 

 taken by a lady last June in a garden at Lyndhurst. — F. C. Adams, St. Ermin's 

 Mansions, Westminster: September 13<A, 1895. 



On some Trent Bemhidia, Sfc. — I have had the good fortune to discover, in 

 July last, what may be at present the most southerly station in Britain for Bembidiiim 

 stomoides. The locality is on the Trent bank, near the Lincolnshire village of 

 Torksey. The insect is quite common, hiding under the flood rubbish or in the 

 chinks of the clay bank. The locality, however, appears to be circumscribed, ex- 

 tending only for about a hundred yards along the bank ; but in this space Bemhidia 

 abound, and along with stomoides we found lunatum,femoratum, ceneum, flammula- 

 tum, gilvipes, biguttatum, and of course littorale. It might be worth while to record 

 that I got a specimen of Trox scaber out of the clay bank, and of Serica brunnea 

 under a stone. A few miles higher up the river, not far from the Lincolnshire 

 village of Newton, I found some specimens of Bevibidium fluviatile and p>unctulatum, 

 and better still, three specimens of the local Notiophilus rufipes. By sweeping in 

 the meadows on the cliffs here some interesting things turned up, such as (Edemera 

 ccerulea (a pair), Corymbites metallicus and pectinicornis, with Lacon murinus, and in 

 flowers of Cynoglossum a very interesting Longiiarsus, most probably distinguendus. 

 My friend Mr. S. Pegler, of Retford, has also taken Bembidium fluviatile at Crow 

 Park, on the Notts, side of the river, and nitidulum, Marsh., abundantly at Grove. 

 He took also (Edemera coerulea in Clumber Park ; and more strange still, came upon 

 a colony of Broscus in sandy ground near Retford Station. It will be worth while 

 to record as having occurred in my own village this year, Aphodius sticticus in April 

 commonly, and a single specimen of Tanymecus swept in July. — Alfred Thobnley, 

 South Leverton Vicarage, Lincoln : September 5th, 1895. 



Boreus hiemalis at Clova. — On April 5th, 1895, whilst staying at Clova, I 

 found several insects on the snow between the hotel and Loch Wharral, at 1500 — 

 2000 feet. Among them is a specimen which Dr. Sharp has identified as Boreus 

 hiemalis ? . — J. C. Willis, Cambridge : August, 1895. 



[It seems to me an age since I last heard of the capture of this curious Panorpid 

 iu Britain. The late date is of course due to latitude and altitude. — R. McL.]. 



