iQ THE entomologist's RECORD. 



I have met with the following species in the Hastings district: — 

 Anitijs rubens, a nice series, bred from rotten oak at Guestling. This 

 is the first time I have over seen this species alive, although I have 

 taken dead specimens on two or three previous occasions. From the 

 same tree I got a large and variable series of Mycetophagua piceus, a 

 species which has only once previously been recorded from the district. 

 Gyrophaena luciditla and Kuplectus ambiyuus were taken not rarely by 

 shaking rubbish round an old pond, and a nice lot of Anchumenus livens 

 under dead leaves by the side of a small stream. Hcydmaenua exilis (2) 

 was also met with at Guestling under rotten oak bark, accompanied 

 by a specimen or two of Thyvialus limbatm. At Winchelsea, Diphyllm 

 lunatua occurred in plenty in black fungi on ash, and at the ditches in 

 the same locality, Badister jjeltatus, and B. unip>ustidatus, Panagaeus 

 crux-major, Oodes helopioides, Bagous auhcarinatus, Telmatophilus spar- 

 ganii (in numbers), T. brericollis and T. schiinherri. Stenus fornicatna 

 turned up very sparingly at Netherfield, as did also Ocytma manra. 

 One or two trips made to Lydd yielded Stcnolophtis skrinishiraniifi, 

 lladisttr jH'ltatKs, and tiniptistidatus, these last two not iincommonly, 

 AcHpalpus i<))isj)iittts, common, Philnnthus fiitnoritis, and Ocyusa maura. 

 — W. H. Bennett, F.E.S., 15, Wellington Place, Hastings. 



CoLEOPTERA IN THE New Foeest. — In early June I paid a short 

 visit to the New Forest. The weather was very unfavourable for 

 collecting, being cold and wet. There were a few warm days, however, 

 and although the hawthorn blossom was nearly over, persistent beat- 

 ing over a wide area yielded a few good beetles, among the best being 

 Klater pumonac, 4, Curyui-bttes mi'talliciis, 12, C. Jiolosericeus, common, 

 C. tesNellatiis, 1, and C. bipustidatuN, 1. Haplocnemh nigricornis was 

 represented by a single specimen, as was also Dasytcs niger, Ekynchites 

 bi'ttdac, and Tillus elongatiis. FAater elongatnlm was picked off the coat 

 of my companion, and Tacliinm elongatus from a frond of bracken. 

 Among the Longi-corns, Callidium canai/Zt; occurred pretty freely under 

 oak bark, but most of these were in the pupal state. Anophdera 

 G-giittata was met with in various blossoms, and all four species of 

 LTrarmnoptera occurred on hawthorn blossoms. An old oak trunk yielded 

 Tillua iiungatiis 3 and $ , Mtiadnbuprestoides, &nd Lissodema A-pustulata, 

 while from a beech Mycetuchares bipmtulata and Tiresias serra were 

 taken. Two pupas of Athons r}iombi'iift were taken, one from oak, and 

 one from birch, but only one perfect insect was bred. Powdery fungi 

 on old timber yielded Conipora orbiculata, Liodcs orbicidata, Amphicyllk 

 globus, and Agathidium rotundatum . — Ibid. 



CoLEopTERA IN THE New Forest IN AuGusT. — Having had a 

 week's holiday at Brockenhurst- — from August 15th to 22nd— I give 

 the results as possibly of interest to coleopterists. The weather was 

 exceptionally line and the heat simply overpowering, and as there had 

 been no rain to speak of for a long time, collecting was very hard 

 work and insects scarce. I confined my operations almost entirely to 

 searching during the day and sweeping during the evening. Some old 

 beech logs near Ramnor were productive of Homalota immerna, Kuplectus 

 hicohtr (the specimen pale testaceous), Lathridius tcstaceus, Silranusuyii- 

 dentatus, ]>ito)tia crenata, Orchesia minor, RJtimmmus riridi])ennis, and 

 a specimen of Choragus shepperdi which I very nearly lost owing to 

 my forgetting its jumping propensities. An old oak log in Holland's 

 Wood contained Athuus rhombeus (dead), Ischnoglos&a corticina, and the 



