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Heptaulacus villosus, Gyll., in profusion in Cobham Park, Kent. — Yesterday 

 morning Dr. Sharp and I found this insect in profusion at the above-mentioned 

 locality. Further details will be given next month. — J. J. Walker, 23, Ranelagh 

 Road, Sheerness : June 2,1st, 1889. 



Coleoptera in North Devon. — The following species of Coleoptera were obtained 

 by me last year in North Devon, in August and September. Some of them are of 

 general interest, and an enumeration of the others may assist other entomologists 

 visiting that county. 



At Lynmouth Coleoptera are decidedly scarce. The district is sharply divided, 

 for collecting purposes, into the valley of the Lynn, with its wooded combes, and 

 the surrounding barren hills ; from these few insects were to be obtained. Searching 

 under stones produced Amara patricia and Staphylinus stercorarius, both of which 

 are fairly common. 



Of the species to be found in the Lynn Valley, Hydrcena pygmcea is the most 

 noteworthy ; this, by repute a northern insect, oecurs in a small hill-side rivulet on 

 the Waters'-meet Road. It may be found sparingly on the under-side of stones, in 

 company with El mis a-neus and Hydrcena gracilis ; this latter, however, another 

 northern species, is rare, and I only secured two examples in several visits. 



Dianous ccerulescens and Lesteva pubescens are both common in the neighbour- 

 hood of this little stream. 



Up the river valley there is much rotten wood, and in it Pterostichus oblongo- 

 punctatus, Baptolinus alternans, Scaphidium quadrimaculatum, Scapihisoma agari- 

 cinum, and Endomychus coccineus are to be commonly found ; I also took Agathidium 

 seminulum, Liodes humeralis and orbicularis, and Scaphisoma boleti. 



Rhopalomesites Tardii, abundant in one or two dead ash trees near the 

 " Hunter's Inn," and Strangalia quadrifasciata, of which I took several examples 

 on Spircea up the Brendon River, are worth mention. 



At Braunton Burrows I worked for coast and sand-hill species without success, 

 being rewarded only with Psammodius sulcicollis ; the sand-hills yielded one extra- 

 ordinary capture in a specimen of Potaminus substriatus, which was basking in the 

 sun about a mile from the nearest fresh water. There had evidently been a large 

 immigration of water-beetles, as Parnus auriculatus also turned up, and some of 

 the common Helophori were in swarms on the coarse grass. Gymnetron villosulus 

 and Rhinoncus inconspectus and bruchoides are also worth mentioning. 



In the canal leading to the village of Braunton, I found a small flock of Gyrini, 

 one of which, taken with an umbrella in the absence of a net, proved to be G. 

 urinator. After this I hunted for it regularly, with the proper implement, and was 

 rewarded with one specimen out of several hundred common examples ; so it does 

 not abound at Braunton. 



The marshes, on the land side of the burrows, simply swarm with beetles, 

 among which I took Meligethes exilis ; and in the corner of one field Cassida 

 murraa, viridis, vibex, equestris, and hemisphcerica ; both the green and the brown 

 forms of C. murraa were very common. — W. F. H. Blandford, 48, Wimpole 

 Street, W. : May Ibth, 1889. 



Gyrinus minutus in the South.— Having mentioned G. urinator in my previous 

 note, 1 may add that in 1882 I found this species in abundance in a pool on 

 Studland Heath, near Swanage, about a mile from the sea. — Id. 



