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bleclon during the past year; but all the captures appear to 

 have been accidental. 



Mr. W. C. Marshall notes the capture of Tachinus 

 rufipennis in a dead grouse, on Kettlewell Moor, Yorkshire. 



A small race of Ocypus morio, apparently unnoticed by 

 authors, and of which the characters of shorter and darker 

 tarsi, shorter antennas, longer and narrower head and 

 l^arallel- sided thorax appear tolerably constant, has been dis- 

 cussed by myself, Ent. Mo. Mag. ix, p. 36, and also referred 

 to by Mr. Bold, iUd. p. 60. 



Mr. Gray of Esher has recorded the capture near his resi- 

 dence Qti Acrognatlius on the wing, — " vara avis in terrisT 



Homalium rugidipenne^ unique since I described it in 

 1864, has been observed by Mr. Edwin Roper Curzon very 

 abundantly under sea-weed on the sand-hills at Newton 

 Nottage, Glamorgan, in November, 1870. Dr. Sharp also 

 informs me that he has a specimen from the Scotch coast; 

 and I have seen examples taken by Mr. Morley and Mr. 

 Broadhurst at Blackpool and New Brighton. 



Mr. Sidebotham has taken Nemosoma clongatiim, some- 

 w^hat plentifully, under elm bark, near Beeston, Notts; as 

 usual, parasitic on Hylesinus vittatus. 



The fungus in wdiich Atomaria Jimetarii has occurred at 

 York is Cojwinus comatus, generally found in burying 

 grounds, according to Mr. Hutchinson. The beetle has sub- 

 sequently been taken by the Rev. W. Hey in some numbers, 

 at the root, and not in the gills, of the fungus. 



Two specimens of the rare Tillus unifasciatus have been 

 found by Dr. Baly on elm posts at Barford, Warwick. 



Platydcma violaccum, one of the late Charles Turner's 

 specialties, has occurred in its old locality, New Forest, in 

 decayed oak, to Mr. James Allen. 



Rhipi{do)phorus, in its accustomed wasp-nest, is recorded 

 by Mr. Bradbury, from Alton, Staffordshire. 



