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Bagley ; Elater halteatus, not rare on hazel, Bagley Wood ; Ischnodes sanguini- 

 eollis, some dead specimens, in a rotting log at Dorchester ; Corymhites pectinioornis, 

 Bagley Wood ; C. qiiercus and var. ochropterus, by beating young oaks in Bagley 

 Wood ; C. metallicus, one specimen, by sweeping in Magdalen College grounds ; 

 Malachius ceneus, by sweeping in damp places at Dorchester ; Xestohium tesselLatum, 

 found attacking large numbers of willow trees at Oxford ; Ptilinus pecfinicornis , 

 commonly on ash at Dorchester ; Ochina Tiederae, on dead ivy in Magdalen College 

 grounds ; Hedobia imperialis, by sweeping at Dorchester ; Clytus mysticus and 

 Leiopus nehulosus, by beating hawthorn in Bagley Wood ; Callidium violaceum, com- 

 mon in parts of Bagley ; Chrysomela didymata, one specimen, by sweeping nettles 

 at Cowley ; C. gaettingensis, one specimen, on Frilford Heath ; Melandrya cava- 

 boides, in old willows at Oxford ; Notoxus monoceros, in a sandy ditch at Cowley ; 

 Oncomerafemorata, a single specimen, captured flying in the city ; Asclera ccerulea, 

 rarely, on hawthorn in early spring ; Sitaris muralis, on an old wall at Wolvercot. — 

 John W. Shipp, University Museum, Oxford : November, 1893. 



Odour of Olophrum piceum. — Last Thursday, December 7th, I sifted some dead 

 leaves by the side of the Canal and brought home the siftings. On examination (as 

 soon as the contents of the bag were warm enough to restore energy to the half 

 frozen beetles), I perceived a most disagreeable smell, worse than the ordinary 

 Hemiptera can produce. I went on boxing a few beetles, but finding no bugs, and 

 a few minutes after my wife called my attention to the smell (she was sitting at the 

 other end of the room). I finished and threw the leaves away, noticing, however, 

 that the smell had disappeared. An hour afterwards I opened one of the boxes, and 

 was greeted with the same smell. The box contained nothing but two specimens of 

 Olophrum piceum, Gyll. I killed them promptly with boiling water, but the smell 

 hung about them for some time, even after carding. Has this smell been noticed 

 before ? I can find no mention of it. — Haeold Swale, 3, Abbeymead, Tavistock : 

 December 9th, 1893. 



[A similar objectionable odour is emitted by many species of the group 

 Homaliince. — Eds.]. 



Pseudeumolpus, Jacoby, renamed Eumolpopsis. — My attention having been 

 called to the fact that the name Pseudeumolpus, proposed by me in the last number 

 of this Magazine (p. 276) for a genus of Phytophagous Coleoptera, is pre-occupied 

 (Kraatz, 1890), I now change it to Eumolpopsis. — M. Jacoby, 7, Hemstall Road, 

 West Hampstead : December, 1893. 



Rare Dipiera in 1893. — This season has been a very favourable one for Diptera, 

 several rai'e species having occurred rather freely. My first capture worth noticing 

 was Chilosia grossa in Sutton Park on March 27th. Early in April Bombylius 

 major swarmed at Trench Woods, at the same time I captured Oonia lateralis. 

 Callomyia amcena, one specimen in my garden. Syrphus barbifrons, Melanostoma 

 quadrimaculatum, Platychirus latimanus, were very common in Sutton Park in 

 April. Selophilus Uneatus, hybridus, and trivittatus, all occurred in the Park, the 



