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CoLEOPTERA :— 
Triplax bicolor, Gyll. Specimens reared from larvee found 
hibernating in moss at Gibside, Co. Durham, and showing 
change in coloration after emergence from pupz. 
Agathidium badium, Er., from beneath bark of beech trunks 
and logs, Gibside, Co. Durham. 
Cryptamorpha desjardinsi, Latr. A probably cosmopolitan 
species from cellars, Winlaton, Co. Durham. 
Eniemus fungicola, Th., taken by Mr. Gardner in Teesdale, 
Co. Durham. 
Henoticus serratus, Gyll., from refuse lying on the banks of 
Loch Long at Arnochar. 
Epurea angustula, Er., and Acrulia inflata, Gyll., found 
(parasitic) in the runs of a wood-boring beetle, Z’rypodendron 
domesticum. 
Luplectus minutissimus, Aubé., taken at Winlaton Mill, Co. 
Durham, with other rare creatures, amongst sand and shingle 
actually submerged by the river Derwent. 
Scydmexnus exilis, Er., not uncommon in the Derwent Valley 
(Durham) beneath bark of various trees. 
Piilium myrmecophilum, All., common with /. rufa in 
Northumberland, Durham and the Kyles of Bute. 
THYSANOPTERA :— 
Having paid alittle attention this year to the British species 
of Thrips I have pleasure this evening in drawing your notice 
to twelve rare species, ten of which (marked “*”) are new to 
the fauna of Great Britain. 
* Megalothrips lativentris, Heeger. Both sexes found by Dr. 
Randell Jackson in Delamere Forest. One of the largest 
European species. 
Inothrips setinodis, Reuter. Described by Reuter from 
Scotland. A fine 9 from Elm Gibside, Co. Durham. 
* Trichothrips cxspitis, Uzel. A minute species, apterous, 
without ocelli, and having the proboscis abbreviated. De- 
scribed from Bohemia. A single example from Gibside in moss. 
* Heliothrips femoralis, Reuter. A hothouse species taken 
at Acton by Mr. C.O. Waterhouse and in Northumberland by 
PROC, ENT. SOC. LOND., IV. 1907. F 
