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tus, Ehnis parallelopepidus, Hydraena riparia, H. gracilis, and H. atri- 

 capilla, Helophorus arvernicus and Limnebius trmicatelhis, all came up 

 in the waternet, or out of moss from boulders, and Hydroporus 

 septentrionalis, H. rivalis and Deronectes latus were fished out of the 

 river, — H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe. Ajwil 26th, 1906. 



Stenus kesenwetteri, Eos., AT SuNNiNGDALE. — I was fortunate 

 enough to take this rare species, perhaps the most sought after of all 

 our Steni, out of Sphagnum, when at Sunningdale, in April. — Ibid. 



Note on Killing and Setting Coleoptera. — Beetles like Throscus 

 and Trachys are generally found very difficult to set if killed by 

 ordinary methods until left for a long time in laurel with the attendant 

 risks. I have found the following plan most efficacious. Put the 

 living beetle into a very small collecting tube, block it up at the end 

 with a piece of paper, put another wad of paper in the tube and then 

 insert a drop of ether on a piece of cotton wool, cork up and leave in 

 the dark for five minutes, then take the insect out. Its legs and 

 antennae will be found extended and soft, and it can be set on card 

 with gum tragacanth without any difficulty. Cut out the card and 

 replace it, with the insect on it, in the tube with the ether and a piece 

 of laurel. Examine and adjust the legs (if necessary) after half-an- 

 hour or so, then replace and leave until there can be no question that 

 the insect is dead. Care is necessary not to wet the insect with the 

 spirit, as the two wads of paper above advised are to prevent the 

 insect touching the spirit. Ether as a means of killing is a useful 

 adjunct to the ordinary modes. Insects killed with it extend their 

 legs and palpi instead of retracting them as they do when cyanide or 

 laurel is used, and this applies even to those insects that retract their 

 legs when killed in boiling water. They can be set at once, or kept in 

 laurel, while insects killed in boiling water must be set at once, and 

 cannot be kept. It is especially useful for very delicate insects which 

 are to be set at once, and for those species that cannot be properly set 

 when boiling water is used. — A. J. Chitty, M.A., 27, Hereford Square, 

 S.W. April 10th, 1906. 



Coleoptera in the Highlands. — I spent a week or two in Scotland 

 during the early part of last summer, and making Kingussie a centre, 

 worked the surrounding district, including a day or two at Pitlochry 

 on my way back. Kingussie is the place par excellence for turning 

 stones, but the weather was cold and results were not so good. Among 

 a number of commoner things Calathus rostratus, Pterostichus lepidus, 

 Amara consularis, A. communis, Calathus micropterus, Corymbites cupreus 

 var. aeruginosus, Otiorhynchus blandus, and Erirhinus aethiops, came 

 to hand. Professor Hudson Beare was kind enough to indicate the 

 locality for Miscodera arctica, but I was not fortunate enough to find 

 it. Beating Scotch fir and shaking loppings of the same produced 

 several useful and good things, including Sericosomus brimneus, 

 Podabrus alpimis, Ancistronycha abdominalis, Corymbites impressus, 

 Telephorus obscurus, Rhagonycha elongata, Rhagium bifasciatum, Pogono- 

 chaerus fasciculatus, Tetratoma ancora, Salpingus castaneus, Rhinomacer 

 attelaboides, Otiorhynchus septentrionis, Hylobius abietis, Pissodes pint, 

 P. notatus, and Magdalis phlegmatica. Mysia oblong oguttata was in 

 great abundance. Beating alders on the banks of the river Tromie 

 resulted in a nice series of Melasoma aenewn, three or four Anoplas 

 roboris, and as many Anthonomus conspersus, a rather good thing, on 



