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TrachypMoeus aristatus, Gronops lunatus, Sltones cambricus, Hylastes angudatus, &c. ; 

 in sand-pits. Cryptophagus pubescens, Limonius ci/lindricus, Salpingus mratus, 

 Mordellistena brunnea, Cryptocephalus moresi, &c. ; by sweeping. Nanophyes 

 gracilis ; one specimen, by sweeping in a marshy place. Ehinoncus bruchoides ; on 

 Polygonum. Aphodius testudiiiarius ; on the wing, towards evening. A. subterra- 

 neus, A. triitis, A. inquinatus, &c. ; in their usual habitat. Donacia menyanthidis, 

 D. hydrochcBridis, &c. ; about the Canal. Cleonus nebulosus ; in sand-pits, from the 

 end of March to the end of September, and commoner than usual this season. The 

 electric lamps, which have recently been placed in many parts of the Woking 

 district, attracted a large number of beetles in May, but all those noticed were very 

 common species, such as Melolontha vulgaris (in swarms), Aachomenus prasinus and 

 A. albipes, Harpalus ceneus and S. ruficorni.s, Nebria, brevicoUis, Carabus nemoralis, 

 Agriotes, &c. ; these insects were found on the ground round the base of the lamp- 

 posts, the Melolontha only flying up to the light. — Gr. C. Champion, Ilorsell, 

 Woking : October Qtfi, 1895. 



Amara alpina at Rannoch. — I captured two examples of this rare British 

 species in the early part of July last on the summit of G-rayvel (or Meall Phuill, as 

 it is written on the Ordnance maps), near Loch Rannoch. One of them is a male, 

 with the disc of each elytron reddish in colour ; the other, a female, is entirely 

 pitchy-black. It Avill be remembered that the insect was originally recorded from 

 the same locality by the Rev. T. Blackburn in 1866 {ef. Ent. Mo. Mag., iii, p. 92). 

 Specimens were subsequently found by Drs. Buchanan White and Sharp near 

 Braemar, and by Mr. Champion at Aviemore. I also found Miscodera arctica on 

 the same mountain. Both species were found under stones, at an elevation of 2880 

 feet.-R. W. Lloyd, St. Cuthbert's, Thurleigh Road, Balham, S.W. : Oct. 9th, 1895. 



Carabus cancellatus, III., in West Cork.— On August 21st last, while spending 

 a holiday at Rosscarbery, in West Cork, I was searching for ground-beetles at a 

 place called Pouladar, a grassy glen opening on tlie shore about two miles from 

 Rosscarbery village. Under a large stone I found two female Carabi, one of which 

 was the common Carabus granulatus, L. ; the second I at first judged to be that 

 species also, and was about to thi'ow it away wlicn I noticed some peculiarity in its 

 appearance and preserved it. 



On examining the insect on my return to Dublin, 1 referred it to the species 

 Carabus cancellatus, III., and Mr. Carpent-er, after comparison with a large series of 

 that beetle in the Dublin Museum, has confirmed my identification. It differs from 

 the type in having the femora entirely black, and would appear to be undoubtedly 

 scarce in the locality where it occurs ; a careful search during the following fortnight 

 having failed to reveal a second example. It is probably a south continental 

 survival, of which we have several analogous instances in the fauna of the extreme 

 south of Ireland, and possibly on the point of becoming extinct there. As the 

 capture is somewhat noteworthy, I have presented the specimen to the Dublin 

 Museum. —H. J. Cutubert, Recess, Blackrock, Dublin : September 2Zrd, 1895. 



[I have not seen the specimen referred to, but the insect has, ai)piirently, been 



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