'212 THE EXTOM(iL()(iIST^S RECOKDi 



CoLEOPTERA AT Weymouth. — Eastei' of this year was marked by 

 rather unfavourable weather conditions, cold, windy, Avet, or foggy 

 weather being the rule during my visit to Weymouth. I numaged, 

 however, to get some good insects, and a brief notice of the more 

 interesting captures may be worth putting on record. On the Isle of 

 Portland I found this year XcottJiiilijiiis trimlnr, F., fairly common, and 

 also Haijxdiis casjtiiis, Stev., but the best insects were JAitJinil>iiiiii 

 (oiiim^tatiDii, Lac, and Artoh'nis, sif/naticoruix, Rey., taken in moderate 

 numbers out of thick moss covering large stones in an almost dried-up 

 pool. On Chesil beach, under small stone's, on the sandy flat, near 

 the bridge over the fleet (these flats are submerged at every tide), 

 Dil/Iossa iiwrsa, Hal., was plentiful, with ( illfjuni lateralis, Sam., and a 

 few lih'fJiiis iiuictirnis, Germ. On the sandhills I took half a dozen 

 lldijiahis jiicijifunu, Duft., witli many other species of the genus, 

 Mastnriis ircttcrhalii, Gyll., and, of course, Anthini* tristis r. sdiaiiiiii, 

 Woll., and Dlcdius sjifctahilis. Kr^, with many other sandhill insects. 

 The shore between Weymouth and Portland produced, under seaweed, 

 Li/iiniaciiiii )ii;ir()j)icfiiiii, Marsh, 'J'irrlnts lapidasiis, Dawson, HrtcnitJinj)^ 

 hinotata, Er., and most of the small Staphs, found so abundantly in 

 such situations. On the grassy slopes of the clifis, about a mile beyond 

 The Nothe, I found Mchw iiroscarabacus, L., commonly, and picked up 

 one specimen of the rare If. Inrrirollis, Panz. Several other visits to 

 the spot failed to produce another specimen. Unfortunately the 

 weather Avas dead against me, rainy and no sunshine. The morning I 

 took the specimen was one of the exceptional sunny days after a night 

 of rain. I paid two visits to Herringstone marches, near Dorchester. 

 On both occasions I secured specimens of Mci/arnnDis ciiii/iilatHs, Mann, 

 running on the pathway, the second specimen turning up within a few 

 feet of the spot Avhere the first was taken four or five days before. In 

 the marsh the best things were : — (hides helnpiinh's, F. (shaken out of a 

 bundle of moss l)roiight home with me), Arujialpiis eojisjuitiis, Duft., 

 ]>eiiibi(liii)ii rliiil.i, Dawson, Ahnvlntra hreriiieiniis, Grav., Cahnlera 

 aethiops, (irav., I'hilnnilnis micciiis, Grav., Lat/iriihiiiiii jili/hniie, Grav., 

 ^nd Steniis ei reiilan's, Gnw., mostly in fair numbers; a single speci- 

 men of Mef/acnniiis a)udis, F., was shaken out of moss growing on the 

 trunk of a tree. At Abbotsbury, in haystack refuse, O.njtrbis inseratiis, 

 Grav., Heterothojis (Jissiiitilis, Grav., and Micn>(/lossa sntin-alis, Mann, 

 were the only things I found before heavy rain put an end to the day's 

 work. Haystack refuse, near Weymouth town, produced (Jiiediiir^ 

 seintiUans, Grav., and riijipcs, Grav., commonly, with many other 

 Staphs. A fine bright blue I'ternstieJiKs cupreus, L., from Portland, a 

 very vivid green Cldaenlns niiiricmiiis, F., from Herringstone, are 

 colour aberrations worth mentioning. The backwardness of vegeta- 

 tion and the cold wet Aveather practically confined collecting to the 

 Carahidae and StaidnjUnidae, and it will be noted that nearly all my 

 captures were in these two families. — T. Hudson Beaee, P.Sc, F.E.S., 

 King's Road, Richmond, Surrey. 



(^UEDius TiusTis, Grav., IN SCOTLAND. — Canon Fowler states in his 

 CiiletijiteKt of the JiritisJi Islands, vol. ii., p. 2o7, that this insect is 

 " rare in Scotland (Solway district) " and in a footnote on the same page 

 l:o f-ays : " It is recorded in Murray's < 'aial(,<,iie as ' ccmmcn ' in Scot- 

 land, l)ut this ap])ears to l)c in error." During the past few days 

 while in Edinburgh I have found this beetle in numbers under stones 



