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coast species — Harpalus picipennis, H. serripes, Pldlopednn iieniinatus, 

 Microzniiiii tihiale, and Brosciia cephalotes, see Knt. Bee. 32 153, 199 

 (1920). 



Triartlnon )iiarkeli, Schmt. — A specimen was taken by evening 

 sweeping at Barton Mills on September 5th, in the locality where I 

 took Aniwlotiia pallens and A. cliiiianioniea previously, neither of which 

 turned up on this occasion. This is its first record for Sufiblk. I 

 have now taken Triarthron in the New Forest, at Wellington College, 

 Crowthorne, Woodhay, Barton Mills, and on September 22nd at 

 Woking. 



Olopltrinii uic/iolsoni, Donis. — A specimen of this beetle was swept 

 up at Barton Mills, Sufiblk, on September 5th. This is the first time 

 as far as I know that this beetle has ever been taken anywhere outside 

 Wicken Fen. 



Bla/is iiiiicninata, Latr. — I found a specimen under a stone at the 

 foot of the Under Clift' at Ventnor, on September 9th. This seems a 

 very curious locality for a beetle which is generally found in cellars. 

 It is true I sometimss take it on pavements at Putney, but then there 

 are houses quite near. The spot at Ventnor was far away from any 

 houses. 



Lebia chlorocephala var. chri/socephala, Mots. — Swept up from young 

 broom trees at Woking, September 22nd. There seem to be very few 

 records of this race, though probably widely distributed. Mr. Harwood 

 tells me he used to take it near Colchester also associated with broom, 

 — Horace Donisthorpe. 



ii^rURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



It is seldom indeed that a man lives to see his work appreciated 

 during his lifetime, though a few fortunate individuals have seen their 

 own obituary notices. But it is still rarer that a biography of a 

 living man appears, produced as a labour of love by his disciples. 

 This has been the good fortune of the eminent Spanish Entomologist, 

 Don Ignacie Bolivar y Urrutia, Director of the Koyal Natural History 

 Museum of Spain, Hon.F.E.S. It is in the form of a well produced 

 book of 151 pages, which is at the same time a history of the progress 

 of Natural History in Spain during the past half century, and the 

 growth of the Museum and Natural History Society, which are so 

 intimately connected with rhe name of Bolivar. The frontispiece is 

 an excellent portrait of this doyen of Orthopterists, survivor of the 

 generation of Brunner von Wattenwyl, de Saussure and other famous 

 names : there are half a dozen photographs of views of the Natural 

 History Museum of Madrid, a chronological bibliography of Bolivar's 

 writings from 1872 to 1921, and finally there is a reproduction of the 

 autographs of the subscribers to the work, which includes the names 

 of many entomologists of all lands. The book has been prepared by 

 one of the best known of his disciples, Don Manuel Cazurro. Bolivar 

 is a first-rate all round naturalist, but it is as an orthopterist that he 

 is pre-eminent. The Iberian Peninsula has the richest and most striking 

 Orthoptera-Fauna of any part of Europe, and it is thanks to him 

 that it is at the same time one of the best known. Long may he be 

 spared to his innumerable colleagues and frionds. — M.B. 



The first meeting of the Entomological Club since the war took 



