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laterale, and where the Doctor's quick eye and acquaintance with their " casts" had 

 brought Bledius unicornis to light. We soon got it in abundance, proving this 

 species not to be confined to the western part of our shores. I had before taken it 

 at Dawlish, where, years ago, Mr. Parfitt discovered it, but I did not then know the 

 little " casts " of sand rejected from their burrows. 



In another locality, two miles from here, Bledius tricornis was in profusion. 

 The first two or three specimens I found, appear to me to be spectabilis, and I am 

 now disposed to doubt the specific value of these two forms. The horn in the males 

 of both this and unicornis certainly varies in development, and the infuscation of 

 the elytra is not a sufficient character in itself to warrant their separation. 



Here we searched for Dyschirius extensus, Putzeys, but in vain ; two or three 

 hours' work only yielded three D. nitidus, which fell to my share. However, a week 

 after, I had the good fortune, in company with the Rev. H. Gore, to secure eight of 

 this rarity, and Mr. Gore got one more. Our thanks are due to Mr. Brewer, who 

 indicated to us the locality, where he found it twelve years ago. 



Having thus got my " eye in " for Bledii, numerous casts in my drive and 

 garden footpaths were explored, and turned out to be those of B. opacus ; while I 

 may mention that while at Dieppe, not long since, B. longulus was not uncommon 

 in a sandy part of the cliff. 



Other species found at Shoreham were Pogonus littoralis, abundant ; Limncevm, 

 Seterocerus femoralis and sericans, Philonthus corvinus. 



I have a specimen of -D. extensus, taken at Lancing, in 1871, but which, owing 

 to its small size, I had not recognised before. 



I lately found in Mr. Gore's collection several specimens of Cryptocephalus 

 frontalis, Marsh., Gyll. ; he had found them at Rusper, in the precise spot where I 

 obtained one when I was in charge of his parish in 1873. This has always been a 

 rarity with me. This is the season for Lycoperdina : it is rather common here in 

 puff-balls. — H. S. Goeham, Shipley, Horsham : November 11th, 1880. 



Sitones ononidis in Suffolk. — On the 29th of September, when sweeping in a 



rough field in the grounds of Tendring Hall, Stoke-by-]S T ayland, Suffolk, I took 



about twenty-five specimens of Sitones ononidis. It was not until I had returned 



; home and showed the insect to Dr. Power that I knew what it was. Had I been 



' able to identify it on the spot I could probably have taken more. I have no recol- 



; lection of seeing any Ononis in the field ; the plant that was most abundant was the 



common field-thistle. As this is a new locality for this scarce species, it may be 



worth recording. — Aethue Cottam, Eldercroft, Watford : November 2nd, 1880. 



Capture of a rare Hymenopterous insect near Lyme. — On the 3rd of September 

 last, I captured a - ? of Didineis lunicornis, one of the rarest of our fossorial 

 Hymenoptera, on the top of the Golden Cap Beacon, four miles east of Lyme Regis. 

 I happened to sit down close to it as it was scrambling through the short stunted 

 herbage near the edge of the cliffs. — F. S. Sattndebs, Wray House, Lingfield Road, 

 Wimbledon : November Ibth, 1880. 



Oligoneuria rhenana. — On the 25th of August last, I happened to be at Basle 

 with an afternoon and evening to spare. A thunderstorm at 1 p.m. was succeeded 

 by beautifid weather, clear, and with scarcely a breath of wind. So I proceeded to 

 a locality on the right bank of the Rhine, some three miles below the city, where a 



