272 ADDITIONAL LOCALITIES, NOTES, ETC. 



jEgialia rufa. F. Birkdale sandhills, in numbers (Chaster and Sopp) ; Bar- 

 mouth (P. H. Jackson). 



Odontceus mohilicornis, F. Woking (Champion) ; Bournemouth (Mrs. Jack- 

 son) ; Shirley Warren, Southampton (Gorham) ; Wellington College 

 (Elton) ; Tunbridge Wells (G. Lewis) ; Downham (Smith) ; King's Lynn 

 (Attmore) ; Tvvyford, near Winchester (White) ; Merton, Norfolk (Hartley 

 Durrant). 



Geotrupes typhoeus, L. Lundy Island (Wollaston) ; Lincolnshire (Thornley) ; 

 abundant on sandy heaths, Cumberland (Britten) ; Scotland, Orchardton 

 (Douglas) ; Isle of Arran (W. Evans) ; Irvine Moor, Ayrshire (Wilson). 



Geotrupes mutator, Marsh. Lundy Island (Joy and Tomlin). 



Tror sabidosus, L. New Forest (Donisthorpe) ; Tubney (Walker) ; Oxford 



(Hope). 

 Trox scaber, L. Chale Chine, I. of W. (Donisthorpe) ; Torksey, Lines 



(Thornley) ; Cumberland (Day) ; Ireland, Dublin and Cork. In the 



E. M. M. for 1897, p. 206, Dr. Sharp points out the method by which beetles 



of the genus Trox stridulate. 



Hoplia philanthus, Fuss. Suffolk, Ipswich, &c. (Morley) ; Norfolk, very 

 uncommon (Paget) ; Barmouth and Bog of Arthog (Donisthorpe) ; Lincoln- 

 shire (Wallace) ; Scotland, Dalkeith Wood, near Dumfries (Lennon). 



Homaloplia ruricola, F. Rochester district (Walker) ; Ditchling (Dollman) ; 

 Royston Heath, Herts (Bryant) ; Peppard, Henley-on-Thames (Fowler). 



Bhizotrogus solstitialis, L. Flies in the evening. Suffolk, locally known as 

 the " Witch " (Morley) ; Norfolk, very abundant (Edwards) ; Leicester- 

 shire, Gumley (Matthews), Saddington (F. Bouskell) ; Lincolnshire, Horn- 

 castle and Elkington (Thornley) ; Malton, Yorks (Thompson). Mr. Donis- 

 thorpe recorded that at Shepherd's Well, where it occurred in great numbCTS, 

 flying about in the evening, it was attacked by bats. 



Bhizotrogus ochraceus, Knoch. Flies in the daytime. Streatley, Berks, not 

 uncommon in 1904 (Joy) ; Padstow, Cornwall (C. J. Lamb) ; Tenby 

 (Parry) ; North Wales, in plenty (Weaver, 1855). The fact that this 

 species flies in the daytime was pointed out by Mr. Douglas (E. M. M.. 

 1885, p. 256). 



Melolontha hippocastani, F. Isle of Man (Birchall, 1876) ; Ireland, locally 

 common, Meath, Wicklow, Wexford, Cork, and Kerry. 



Anomala frischii, F. The Irish records require verification. Mr. Arrow has 

 shown that the A. Donovani, Steph., which was supposed to be a variety of 

 the above insect, is really A. irrorata, Blanch., an American beetle (E. M. M.. 

 1899, p. 269). 



Cetonia aurata, L. Lundy Island (Wollaston) ; Ireland, locally common in the 

 south and west. Shipp took cocoons of this beetle in a nest of F. rufa near 

 Oxford. Professor Poulton found its larvae in a similar situation in the 

 New Forest. These were bred by Mr. Donisthorpe in an observation nest 



