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occurs both at Deal and Dover, and also at Folkestone ; it is frequently accompanied 

 by the dimorphous form of the $ . Agrion pulchellum, v. d. Lind., Deal ; A. puella, 

 L., very common. — C. G. Hall, 14, Granville Street, Dover : October 22nd, 1888. 



Adrastus pusillus, Fab. — I have repeatedly taken this insect at Deal and Dover, 

 considering it a small dark form of limbatus. I have now separated the species in 

 my collection, and amongst pusillus find one of the very dark specimens with only 

 the pale humeral patch. I expect both species are mixed in collections, and I feel 

 sure I have distributed some pusillus to some of my correspondents as limbatus. 

 The dark brown antennae, with the first three joints so conspicuously pale, serve 

 easily to separate the species. — Id. : November 7th, 1888. 



Two Coleoptera at Colorado. — Among a small lot of Coleoptera from Custer 

 County sent to Dr. Hamilton lately, he finds two species apparently unrecorded for 

 Colorado, namely, Aphodius lividus, Oliv., from the Hardscrabble district (bringing 

 the list of Colo. Aphodii up to 21), and Mysia Hornii, from the Eastern Slope of the 

 Sangre de Cristo Range. There was also in the same collection an Aleocharid, which 

 is undeterminable at present, and possibly undescribed. — T. D. A. Cockerell, West 

 Cliff, Custer Co., Colorado : September 28th, 1888. 



Camnula pellucida, var. obiona. — Mr. L. Bruner has kindly determined three 

 female locusts which I sent him from near Short Creek, Custer Co., about 8400 feet 

 alt., as the Tragocephala obiona, Thos., 1870, and adds that it is probably but a 

 localized and dark variety of Camnula pellucida. This is of some interest in view of 

 the fact that C. pellucida appears to be extending its range eastward, and may 

 eventually become a recognised injurious insect on the Atlantic as well as the Pacific 

 slope of North America. — Id. 



Coleoptera and Hymenoptera in the Hastings district. — The following are 

 additions to the Hastings list : Dromius vectensis, a single specimen at roots of 

 grass, near Fairlight ; I have been quite unable to find any more, although I have 

 searched again and again. Sunius intermedins and Proteinus macropterus, tufts of 

 grass at Guestling ; Evcesthetus ruficapillus, not uncommon round the edge of a 

 pond near Ore ; Bledius atricapillus, burrowing in the base of the cliff at Bexhill ; 

 Scydmanus Poiveri and Choleva angustata, at Guestling ; Thymalus limbatus, a few 

 specimens under bark at Guestling, and one specimen bred from some larvse found 

 in old fungi in November ; Cis hispidus, under decaying bark of beech in Broom- 

 ham Grove, and Cis altii and pygmceus in fungi at Fairlight ; Ceuth. chalybceus, from 

 tufts in a swamp at Guestling. I have also met with the following : Lebia chloro- 

 cephala, Stenolophus vespertinus, Encephalus complieans, Rhizophagus perforatus 

 (also on old bones), Actobius cinerascens, Lithocharis brunnea, Agathidium Iceviga- 

 tum, Salpingus castaneus, Tropiphorus mercurialis, and Plinthus caliginosus (7), all 

 from tufts of grass in wet places; Lycoperdina bovistce (1), in moss; Choleva 

 anisotomoides, from the nest of the wood wren ; Anaspis fasciata and Adimonia 

 sanguinea, beaten from may blossom atCrowhurst ; Dorcus parallelopipedus (12), at 

 Winchelsea ; Pterostichus picimanus, at Ore; and Elmis Yolkmari (7), at Crow- 

 hurst. The early spring Hymenoptera were late, but fairly plentiful. I have met 



