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collections put together, and also that up to that time this little beetle has been 

 captured at the rate of only 1 or 2 specimens at a time, my success has been most 

 remarkable. 



Almost invariably, wherever I have searched for P. denticollis I have found it 

 not in ones and twos, but in scores and hundreds. It is still plentiful in the locality 

 in which I first found it (Knowle), and during the past winter and present spring it 

 has occurred to me at the following amongst other places. In a bye-lane within 

 three miles of the centre of Birmingham it is very plentiful under bark of oak 

 stumps, posts, and rails ; and in company with it I find Euplectus nigricans. At 

 Sutton Park, seven miles from Birmingham, it literally swarms under the bark of 

 dead oak trees. At ISTeedwood Forest I captured a goodly number under the loose 

 bark of decaying holly trees, and at Salford Priors and Bewdley Forest it occurred 

 freely under bark on oak logs. It is very common under similar conditions at Leigh 

 Woods near Bristol, and on a recent visit to Dean Forest I found several specimens 

 (together with what I believe to be P. britannica) under bark on an old oak stump. 

 It seems that comparatively few Coleopterists have met with P. denticollis, and the 

 only conclusion I can arrive at is that owing probably to its minute size and its 

 resemblance in colour to the bark under which it lives, it has been overlooked. 

 Perhaps my note may have the effect of inducing other workers to look for this 

 species ; if so, and success attend their search, probably we shall soon see records of 

 its capture from many other districts. I shall be pleased to send specimens to any 

 Coleopterist in want of the species.— W. Gr. Blatch, 214, Green Lane, Smallheath, 

 near Birmingham : April 16th, 1882. 



Early Coleoptera near Lincoln. — I have never been accustomed to get Coleop- 

 tera by sweeping much before May, certainly not in the North of England, but on 

 March ISth, in a wood near Lincoln, I found beetles as abundant on the herbage as 

 they often are in early summer. I swept Lathrobium boreale in some numbers, 

 Cytilus varius, Lema melanopa, Lathridius nodifer, a Clonus or two, two or three 

 species of Halticidce, Cceliodes quercus, two or three Ceuthorhynchi (C. punctiger 

 being the best) , sundry Staphylinida, and a few common Remiptera. Atemeles 

 emarginatus was to be found in a nest of Formica fusca. Coprophilus striatulus 

 is usually common on the Lincoln pavements in April ; this year specimens were 

 running about on March 19th. — W. W. Fowler, Lincoln : April 15th, 1882. 



Meloe variegata and other Coleoptera at Margate. — I have much pleasure in 

 recording the occurrence at Margate of Meloe variegata, Don., of which rarity I 

 obtained three specimens, during a visit in the early part of March last. Two of 

 these were found by my sister, one sprawling upon the pathway, and the other upon 

 the sands beneath, while I took the third myself upon a grassy bank not far from 

 the town. Of M. cicatricosa, no less than six specimens turned up, four falling to 

 my lot, and two to that of a friend who was with me for a couple of days. Among 

 tbe more noteworthy of my remaining captures were the following : — Dromius 

 4i-signatus, several under recently turned stones in a heap a mile or so from the 

 town ; JBembidium 5-striatum, two in the deserted burrows of sand hoppers in the 

 cliff -cuttings ; Ocypus fuscatus, one under a chalk lump upon the sands ; Saprinus 

 maritimus, Rhinosimus viridipennis, in profusion under bark in a small copse near 



