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on Arthur's Seat and at North Quoansferry ; in about half an hour's 

 work in the first locality I must have seen some scores, it was under 

 almost every stone, and often two or three under one stone. As I was 

 in want of more (Jh'iUik fiilii/innsus, Grav., I examined in many 

 cases the scutellum to make certain from its punctuation that the 

 insect was only (J. tn'stis. Murray's record is apparently quite correct, 

 but he has confused the two species in his Cafaloi/in' (IH')'-]). lie only 

 ^ives two, ^'J'tilif/iiiosns, CIrav.," and then enters under this, as one of 

 four svnonvnis, (Jiiciliits tn'stis, Cirav. — -T. Hudson Ijkare. Jiih/ 2Gt/i, 

 1899." 



CoLEOPTERA IN THE New Forest IN JuNE. — Oil June 9th last I 

 rode down to Broskenhurst to meet Professor Beare, who arrived on 

 the lOtb, when we immediately started into the forest to see what 

 beetles we could obtain in a few days' stay, by hard work. Hard work 

 it was, as sweeping and beating were, almost if not quite, useless, and 

 working at timber, to Avhich we devoted most of the time, requires a 

 lot of energy. The best capture of the trip was undoubtedly AtJioiis 

 rlioiiihciis, of which fine click we took some eighteen specimens, includ- 

 ing pupal and perfect insects. We also found the larva, Avhich is a 

 black one ; its description may be found in Ann. ilrs Scicnc. Xatiir., 

 1840, 2nd ser., t. xiv., p. 41, pi. 3b, fig. 1. L. Dufour. Most of the 

 pupae taken we were fortunate enough to breed out by careful attention 

 and keeping them moist. When the insect first emerges from the 

 pupal skin it is of a pure white, the colour soon begins to appear, and 

 it is interesting to Avatch the V-shaped mark on the elytra as it 

 gradually commences to show itself. All the specimens were obtained 

 from some old beech logs, the wood being fairly rotten. We observed 

 that all the pupa^ were quite close to the surface of the wood. Other 

 good species out of timber were Tainiu-ia bii/itttata in some numbers 

 (pupa^ and perfect insects), dug out of beech ; Vhloeotrna nitipcs, in fair 

 numbers under bark of oak, in their borings, just emerged ; and 

 Lrptiira sctiti'Uata, which turned up in nearly all the beech logs and 

 stumps we touched (I was fortunate enough to take a specimen of 

 riciiailrnis disscctHs in the borings of LcptKra). A female LcptKravcas 

 observed ovipositing in a crack in one of the logs. ( 'n/iihalim 

 faiji and FAatcr jmnionaf were also obtained from one of the beech logs. 

 Tnder bark of oak boughs, Callidiitm variabile and l^oi/onocIiernH biden- 

 tatiis were taken. Lai'inophlocits biniaculatus and L.f('rrii;iini'iix, Ditoma 

 nrnata, Ccri/lon airitistatmit, and Vavowahm tiaricornis occurred under 

 beech bark. Some dozen specimens were obtained of ('linncara unthi- 

 lata, mostly at dusk, sitting on an oak log, from which we had removed 

 the bark. "^ Sinodtnidnni ciiUndrinnit occurred in great numbers in a 

 very big decayed tree, a large portion of which nearly fell on both 

 of us as we were examining it, a proof of the destruction the beetle had 

 wrought. At a < 'ussus tree, from wbich the sap was fiowing, Kpiirara 

 dcciiiuinttata, I ps iiiiadri;nitt(itu, S,iniiii(( jiuiirtatissinia, Cnnitavclta 

 s'rii/ata and iiiijirridlis, and 'I'/ndiiianfa riiinaiiKiinra were plentiful. 7'. 

 riimaiiuDiica varies considerably in size, and we were in hopes that we 

 had got 7'. Inisjiita also, but this turned out not to be the case. T/iif- 

 Dialii'^ liiiihitiis and Liodrs mbictdaris were taken at fungi on trees, 

 < 'nudintlinis trstarciis by breaking up fallen oak boughs, and l'tfn><tti(lnts 

 ublowiopiimtatiis, as usual, under chips, under which two specimens of 

 Uiu'd'itis latn-alis occurred. The few things taken worth mentioning by 



