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aquatic insects must not always be too rigidly interpreted. For instance, Pictet's 

 remarks about Perlidm : " celles qui appartiennent au genre des Perles " (which 

 includes our genera, Ferla, Dictyopteryx, and Isogenus) " recherchent exclusivement 

 les eaux courantes" {Perlides, -p. 17), and "notre lac n'en a point ou presque point" 

 {id., op. cit., p. 20), cannot be applied to some of our Scottish lakes, on the stony 

 shores of which examples of the three genera above alluded to may be found at times 

 in the greatest abundance. — Kenneth J. Morton, Carluke, IS". B. : January, 1894. 



Andrena cineraria andfulva in the imago state in December. — On December 

 28th two AndrencB {cineraria $ and fulva $ ) were brought to me out of Sutton 

 Park ; some navvies had been reducing the railway banks, and had turned them up 

 with a number of grubs (pupae ?). The insects were in perfect condition ; probably 

 the warm weather at this period had caused them to assume the imago state, possibly 

 also the extraordinary summer had caused them to feed up more rapidly than usual. 

 Mr. Saunders informs me that Mr. Enock once dug up an Andrena nigrocenea and 

 Nomada alternata in December {cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., xxi, p. 231). It would be 

 interesting to know if any other entomologist has met with them at such an ex- 

 traordinary time. — R. C. Bradley, Sutton Coldfield : January 24!th, 1894. 



Hare Coleoptera in 1893. — During 1893 I captured the following Coleoptera, 

 among many other species : — Ischnodes sangidnicollis, Bexley, May 14th ; Bruchus 

 affinis, Darenth Wood, May 14th ; Phytmcia cylindrica, Dorking, May 28th ; An- 

 thribus albinus, Oxted, June 4th; Telephorus translucidus, Mickleham, June Stli ; 

 Oodes helopioides, Wicken Fen, July 23rd ; Dasytes niger, "Winchester, June 18th ; 

 Harpalus diseoideus, Saltwood, Kent, August 24th; Sippodamia IB-punctata, 

 Addington Park, Kent, September 3rd ; Molytes germanus, Addington Park, Kent, 

 September 10th. — Horace Donisthoepe, 73, West Cromwell Eoad, South Ken- 

 sington : February Mh, 1894. 



Coleoptera at Maidstone. — Last June I had four or five days' collecting near 

 Maidstone, and met with the following species amongst others : — Ochthebius ex- 

 sculptus, a single specimen in a small stream, clinging to the under-side of a stone, in 

 company with Elmis ceneus, VolTcmari, and subviolaceus ; Bolitochara bella, in 

 fungi ; Lathrobium angustatum, on the banks of a stream, with plenty of Calodera 

 longitarsis ; and Bledius longulus, a single specimen by the road side near a sand- 

 pit. In the cyanide bottle of a local entomologist I discovered a fine specimen of 

 Deleaster dichrous. Evening sweeping produced Anisotoma calcarata and badia, 

 Hydnobius strigosus, Cyrtusa pauxilla, Liodes orbicularis, Calyptomerus dubius, 

 Proteinus macropterus, Throscus dermestoides , Oymnetron melanarius,n,n6. Liosomus 

 ohiongulus (3). By general sweeping I obtained Campy lus linearis, Dascillus 

 cervinus, Drilus flavescens ((?), Anthocomus fasciatus, Magdalinus pruni and atra- 

 mentarius, Metalliles marginatus, Liophlceus nubilus, Barynotus obscurus, Lisso- 

 dema 4i-pustulatuin, Mordellistena pumila, Sitones crinitus, Ceuthorrhynchus asperi- 

 foliarum and campestris, and ApAon cBthiops, craccce, hydrolapathi, and punctigerum. 

 Special plants yielded several good insects : — from Reseda luteola I took a nice series of 

 Ceuthorrhynchus reseda, and plenty of Phyllotreta nodicornis ; Xylocleptes bispinus 



