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Cyrtotriplax hipmtulata (1) turned up in moss on a birch stump, and a 

 single CadiodcH ruber on a refreshment stall under an oak. Onthnphariini 

 vacca and roenobita were not uncommon in horse-dung in an outlying field 

 on May 7th, but I failed to find 0. nutans and nuchk-nrnU, for which 

 Chingford is given as a locality by Fowler. On May 14th, at the sandy 

 sides of a damp, rushy hollow, I found a single Xntiopliilus riijijics, 

 and subsequent visits produced several more specimens ; it was here 

 associated with aijuatieiis and palastris, as well as with bi<ii(ttatiis. One 

 hot afternoon in July, when insects were scarce and nothing of any 

 value had rewarded a two hours' search, I came across a half-rotten 

 but still living hornbeam, and on tearing off a large flake of loose 

 wood, discovered a rather small but very active beetle beneath it, 

 which proved on capture to be Mycctnchares bipin^tnlata. I do not 

 know for certain whether this species has been previously recorded 

 from the Forest, but think not. Amongst other things obtained by 

 searching under bark Avere BJnno.uwua riiJkollU and Tetratoma fun- 

 (jnrum, both in fair numbers, the latter not only in old and mouldy, 

 but also in very fresh, white fungus. In addition to these, single 

 specimens of Ccri/hni ferrui/ini'itm and Trijilcu riissica put in an appear- 

 ance, the latter being a species I had long looked for, and was very 

 glad to get ; it Avas found wrapped round by a spider's mesh in a large 

 fungus, swarming with iJacne rupfron^, on beech. Finally, Mr, 

 Donisthorpe, who accompanied me on a visit in mid-December, found 

 amongst other good things a single Trip/iyllits autaralis. — F. 13. Jen- 

 nings, Edmonton. January 1st, 1899. 



AcANTHociNus (AsTYNOMus) AEDiLis NOT AT Chester. — My attention 

 has been called by Mr. Tomlin to a slip in my " Notes on the Longi- 

 cornes," where {ante, vol. x., p. 270) I note this species as having been 

 taken at the " Chester docks." It should read " Cardiff docks." — 

 H. Ht. J. K. Donisthorpe, F.Z.S., F.E.S., 7, Phillbcach Gardens, 

 South Kensington, S.W. 



Clytus mysticus at Chester. — ('I>/tun ^ni/sticits is taken annually 

 at Chester near the town, in a particular lane, where it breeds in 

 palings and old haAvtliorn stems. The black aberration is also found. 

 — 15. ToMLiN, D.A., F.E.S., Llandaff. 



Melanic forms of Carabidae in the New Forest, including 



CaRABUS NITENS AB. NIGER, SeMENOW, AN ABERRATION NEW TO THE 



Dritish List. — In June, 1895, I took a melanic form of L'arabns 

 vitens, L., in Denny Bog, in the New Forest. It was a female, and a 

 male of the type form was in eopuld with it. I find it agrees in every 

 particular with the ab. niijer, Semenow. He describes it as follows in 

 JLirae Socictati^ KntiDiiobujieae llossicae, 1886, xx., p. 234: — " Eadem 

 cum tA7)ico statura et habitu, sed supra totus fere nigrescens, pro- 

 thorace leviore, linea media bene distincta, limbo prothoracis clytro- 

 rumque vix aurato, costis rufo-ferrugineis postice in tuberculis 

 resolutis, intervallis rugosis, vix ad latera viridi-micautibus. J 

 Specimen unicuin. Arkangel." I took the same day, also in Denny 

 J3og, a black form of Carabiat arvensls, F. In 1897 I captured a black 

 rienisticliiis (liiin'iliatiis in the New Forest. — Horace Donisthorpe, 

 F.Z.S., F.E.S., 7, Phillbeach Gardens, South Kensington, S.W. 



