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contractus swai*med on them : I also took Sitones flavescens, Quedius semianeiis, 

 Hylurgus piniperda, and one specimen of SilpTia opaca, and numerous small species 

 from the same flags. The stones near the high road, at the base of Scrabster Cliffs 

 (great deposits of boulder clay), yielded one specimen (imperfect) of Corymhites 

 cupreus, and a specimen of Tropiphorus mercurialis. 



The Tarns. — A little shallow tarn on Holborn Head, near a farm house, yielded 

 a great many common things, but which it may be interesting to note from this 

 extreme northern locality. On floating leaves of Potamogeton, Bonacia bidens was 

 abundant. At the edges, and in the little becks near, Elaphrus cupreus, Parnus 

 prolifericornis, Limnehius truncatellus, and Anacesna limbata occurred, some of 

 them very commonly. In the tarn itself, Agahus bipustulatus, chalconotus, nebu- 

 losus ; Hydroporus planus, erythrocephaluSj'palustris ; Colymbetes fuscus and exo- 

 letus; ^^aSws ^M^te^Ms occurred in great abundance under stones in almost every 

 stream, even when nearly dry. A specimen of Necrophorus ruspator was taken under 

 a dead bird. In some larger taims just under the lighthouse at Dunnet Head, I 

 took, in addition to many of the others, Agabus aroticus, Acilius sulcatus, Hydro- 

 porus vittula, nigrita, melanocephalus, and one specimen of Coelambus novemlineatus, 

 also Hydroporus memnonius, and Gyllenhali, with two or three specimens of 

 Helophorus ceneipennis. 



The sandhills at Castletown yielded very little, the season being evidently too 

 late. Imperfect specimens of Serioa brunnea were abundant. Calathus mollis 

 swarmed under prostrate ragwort leaves. On small thistles OtiorhyncMs atroapterus 

 was not uncommon. A few specimens of Bledius arenarius, and a fragment of 

 Broscus, were all that rewarded a couple of hours' search. In the town of Thurso 

 I obtained a second specimen (damaged) of Silpha opaca, and single specimens of 

 OtiorJiynchus sulcatus and picipes, Barynotus ScMnherri, and in my lodging, Pris- 

 tonychus terricola.—A'LTn'ED Thoenley, South Leverton Vicarage : April 11th, 1893. 



A new variety of Telephorus figuratus. — The specimens of Telephorus previously 

 recorded by me as elongatus appear really to be a black form of T. figuratus. I find 

 they will not do for the subgenus RhagonycJia, but belong to Telephorus proper. The 

 specimens are entirely black, with the exception of the labrum, mandibles, knees, 

 claws, extreme side margins of thorax, outside of anterior and intermediate tibise, 

 and pubescence, which are coloured much as in scoticiis. The under-side of the 

 first two or three joints of the antennae is also somewhat lighter, and occasionally 

 the tibiae are lighter where they join the tarsi. As T. elongatus has been recorded 

 by Mr. W. Lennon from the Solway district apart from fir trees (see the Annals of 

 Scottish Natural History, April, 1892, and reprint therefrom), I was less on my 

 guard in determining my specimens than I ought to have been ; they were taken by 

 sweeping in a damp place along with paludosus. I propose to call the variety 

 cruachanus, from Ben Cruachan, near which it was found. — A. J. Chitty, 33, Queen's 

 Gate Gardens, S.W. : March 4th, 1893. 



Bare Coleoptera. — On April 17th I took my fourth specimen of Scyhalicus 

 oblongiusculus in Portland. On the 13th I took Masoreus Wetterhalii, and one of 

 Hypera elongata on the Chesil Beach. The latter agrees with that species in my 

 father's cabinet, but Fowler records it as very rare, and perhaps doubtfully indigenous. 

 However, another species which occurs at Grlanvilles Wootton, viz., Adimonia 



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