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pupa of a Longicorn, which proved to be only Uhaiiiiini ijupn'sitnr. 

 Fungus of all kinds Avas conspicuous by its absence, owing, doubtless, 

 to the dry season ; but from the few pieces I did find I got Pocadiiis 

 ferrufiineux, Tn'p/njllua punctatu!^, Nccrophonts mortiioyum, Cia nitirhni, and 

 Tliifrnalu!^ liwhatm^. (The appearance of this last insect when taken is 

 just as if it were dead and mouldy, a point which has been noticed by 

 others.) I came across one oak in Holland Wood, from which the sap was 

 flowing out, that yielded a long series of Homahta cinnamonm and 

 two H. Jiospita, but none of the other sap-frequenting species ; in fact, 

 the only other occupants were three hornets. I spent one blazing hot 

 day stirring up the gravelly bed of the stream that runs through Khine- 

 fields, and secured a series of Paran/iiius ni[iroaeneu:<, Hi/ilroponis inrw- 

 nonius, a very variable series of Hi/draena nyjita, and Hnmalnta currax : 

 (rcntnipca vernalh turned up close by. All my other captures were 

 taken by sweeping between six and eight o'clock in the evening, and that 

 was the most productive method of taking the rarer Coleoptera. Pound - 

 hill enclosure yielded by this method ^lycctopnrus davicornu/Triarthrnn 

 maerkeli, Anuotoma fp-andis, A. nigrita, A. dnhia, Liodes orbicularis, 

 Cr]iphah(s fafji, Phyllobrotica ^-mac}data, and Cat^nda sampdnolenta. 

 Near Ramnor Bog enclosure I swept Telmatvphilns typhae, Centhorhyn- 

 chidcHx nielanariiix, Pliytobiiis waltoni, and P. i-nndnsus, Thyaiiiis 

 hohaticm, Coelindefi rnber, &c. ; and along the Beaulieu Road I swept 

 Sitoncs waterJwtisei, and (three) Vnrticaria cylindrica. (hrhcatca u/frtwas 

 common all round Brockenhurst on the Myrica yalc. — H. Heasler, 

 50, Aytoun Road, Brixton. 



Coleoptera feom East Dorset. — In an early number of the last 

 volume of the EiUnmolnyiat's Record appeared a list of coleoptera taken 

 whilst on a short visit to east Dorset at the end of 1897. Since then 

 I have, through the kindness of Miss Burgess, of Ferndown House, 

 been the recipient of occasional small consignments of beetles taken for 

 the most part in and about her garden, and am thus able to supple- 

 ment my former Ferndown list by a few additional names. Amongst 

 the Geodephaga received were one or two HarpaluK mbidicola, which 

 beetle appears to be not uncommon in the neighbourhood, whilst 

 Clirina callaris occurred freely in cucumber frames in May. Of the 

 StapJiylinidae, LristotropJiiis)ichiilasi(s and Lathrobium midtipunctuw were, 

 perhaps, the best, but of other Clavicorns there were good series of 

 Necrophorus vestiyator and Xitidula riifiprs, both scarce species ; Xcrro- 

 phnnm mortnorum, Cholera Jiiyricans, and Attayenus jx'Uin, the latter from 

 outhouses being also present. The Lamellicornia were well repre- 

 sented both in size by some very fine specimens of Lucanua ccrnis, and 

 in quantity by long series of (Tcotrupcs typhaeus, G. mutator and Ucp- 

 taulaciin tcstudinarius, the three last-named taken by Mr. Cecil Strood. 

 With regard to the habits of Ilcptaulams tcstndinarius, an extract from 

 a note sent by me to the Kntonioloyist's Monthly Mayazinc, May, 1898, 

 at the time of their receipt may prove of interest. In reply to a ques- 

 tion on the subject, Mr. Htrood wrote me that "during January and 

 February they were only to be met" with in the dung quite at the 

 bottom of the Gcotrupcti {i.e., Li. mutahir) holes, but towards the latter 

 part of March they * simply swarmed ' in the cowdung on the top of 

 the ground." Another very desirable chafer was Aphndius canstaus, of 

 which a short series was taken by Miss Burgess early in April. Although 

 usually considered a very local and somewhat rare insect, this beetle 



