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extract from an article on the results of an excursion in South Hungary]. I now 

 mention a profitable way of beetle-hunting pursued by us almost daily. The method 

 was entirely new to me, it may also be so to others, and may perhaps have similar 

 results in other localities where railways go through woodland districts. The rail- 

 way from Bogsan to Resicza runs continuously on the bank of the Berzava, often 

 through forest ; on the embankments the outer ledge of the rails is on an elevation, 

 by which means the beetles will easily get over the rails and into the track, but their 

 retreat is prevented by the concavity of the inner side of the rails, and they are 

 caught in a trap, as in trenches with steep sides. In no other way can I account 

 for the masses of bulky beetles in the said space ; nor otherwise conceive for what 

 purpose they had intentionally crawled between the rails. The greater proportion 

 consisted of Dorcadion cethiops and I). riifipes, Dorcus parallelopipedus often in 

 companies of 6 to 8 bui'ied in the ground, Gnaptor spinimanus and other cursorial 

 beetles, among which were Carabus intricatus, C. repercusstis, also C. Kollari and 

 C. montivagus singly. Further, Herophila tristis, Acanthoderes clavipes, Hoplozia 

 fennica, Mesosa curculionoides, 31. nelmlosa, the last three scarce ; but very plenti- 

 fully Timarchce, different Chrysomelce, particularly C. coerulea, &c, were found. 

 Standfuss made an eager raid on the cases of PsycMdce which had a predilection for 

 hanging on the inner side of the rails. — E. von Bodemeyek-IIelnriciiau (in 

 JEulomol. Nachrichten : 1st September). 



Meligethes morosus, Er., a species new to Britain. — Among some doubtful 

 Meligethes, which M. Fauvel kindly named for me some time ago, was a specimen 

 of 31. morosus, Er., a species not yet recorded as British : it apparently comes near 

 31. difficilis, Heer, but is easily distinguished by its anterior tibiae, which are much 

 more evenly toothed than in that species ; the teeth are much blunter, and increase 

 in size to the apex, where there are two or three larger than the rest, though not 

 conspicuously so, as in M. difficilis and other allied species ; in shape it is shorter 

 and more ovate than 31. difficilis; its dark legs, as well as the teeth on the tibiae, 

 distinguish it from 31. ochropus, to which it is somewhat allied by having its inter- 

 mediate and posterior tibiae strongly elbowed. I took my specimen in my garden 

 in Lincoln, I believe out of a strawberry blossom. — W. W. Fowler, Lincoln : Sep- 

 tember 16th, 1881. 



Harpalus discoideus, F. — While collecting Coleopt ra at Gravesend in July 

 last, I took a single specimen of a Harpalus quite unknown to me. Mr. C. O. 

 Watcrhouse has kindly examined it for me, and pronounced it to be Harpalus 

 discoideus. — H. B. Pim, Leaside, Eingswood Boad, Upper Norwood : Sept., 1881. 



Choragus Sheppardi in Warwickshire. — From the bark of an old ash stump 

 near Bidford I took, in July last, a few specimens of Choragus Sheppardi. The 

 stump was full of insects of various kinds, and amongst others were the following 

 species of Coleoptera: Homalium punctipenne, Cephennium thoracicum, Scaphisoma 

 agaricinum and boleti, Carcinops minima, Cryptarcha strigata, Tripligllvs sitluralis, 

 Diphyllus lunatus, Litargus bifascialus, Dorcus, Sinodendron, Clerus formicarius. 

 In the Hypoxylon concentricum growing on the stump, I found larva? of Flatyrltinus 

 latirostris, the perfect form of which I captured at the same place in May. — "VV. Gr. 

 Blatch, Green Lane, Smallhcath, near Birmingham : September Villi, 1881. 



