276 (December, 



to whom I had given some bred sucedella, he could not entertain the idea that he 

 might have been mistaken. I have since identified some more saltraarsh Litce and 

 plants for him, and Mr. Hodgkinson has now come to the conclusion that he has 

 never met with eiihen; L. sucedella or its food-plant S.fruticosa. It is, therefore, 

 advisable to cross out the above-quoted extracts from the text of my paper. — 

 Eustace R. Banees, West Wickham : November 18th, 1894. 



Notes on Aphodii. — A. porous : the record of this species in Fowler's Coleop- 

 tera is, that it is local, and, as a rule, not common. I first met with it last autumn 

 (1893), when early in September I secured a single specimen near Sandown, Isle of 

 Wight, with it rufescens occurred in plenty. This September I found another close 

 to the same spot, and again in the same neighbourhood a few days later took three, 

 but all of them singly, though in the same field. 



On September 14th, during a visit to Box Hill, I obtained moi*e specimens, and 

 a few days afterwards I met with the species in a field close to my house at 

 Richmond. The species appears, therefore, to be an autumn one, but apparently 

 occurs in very sparse numbers. 



All thi'ough September contaminatus has occurred in this neighbourhood, and 

 in other districts in Surrey, in the most extraordinary profusion, its habitat often 

 being one living mass, yet at other periods of the year it is scarce about here. 



A. subterraneus occurs in abundance near Chobham, both in spring and autumn, 

 and I have found it not uncommonly in other localities. 



A.foetens, said by Fowler to be not common in the London district, I have secured 

 in fair numbers (always in small colonies) in this neighbourhood, but always in the 

 autumn. 



Amongst the better species I have this year taken sordidus, on the banks of the 

 Thames, and again lately on the sea shore at New Brighton ; tristis at Chobham in 

 the spring ; sticticiis at Mickleham, and a single specimen of Zenkeri flying in the 

 Ticinity of Box Hill. — T. Hudson Beabe, Park House, King's Road, Richmond : 

 October \Zth, 1894. 



Coleoptera in 1894. — Amongst the Coleoptera taken by us during the past 

 season the following are the most noteworthy : — at Easter, on the mud flats 

 between Shoreham and Lancing, we found a fair number of the early CarabidcB, in- 

 cluding one Pogonus luridipennis and one Bembidium ephippium. Whitsuntide 

 in the New Forest was not so good this as last year. Raplocnemus impressus, IscJi- 

 nomera sanguinicollis, C<Bnopsis fissirostris, and Grammoptera prausta, being about 

 the best of the things taken. We were, however, very fortunate at the Lymington 

 Salterns the morning after one of the largest of them had been flooded, and amongst 

 the debris were Bembidium ephippium, Tachys scutellaris and Anthicus salinus in 

 plenty. Along the tidal mark under large stones were Aepus marinus and Eobinii, 

 Cillenus lateralis, Biglossa mersa, Sygronoma dimidiata, and Bryaxis Waterhousei 

 in fair numbers. A day with Mr. Donisthorpe at his locality at Shirley produced a 

 fine series of the rare Eumicrus rufus, and about three days later we turned up a 

 single specimen under bark of a dead tree in Putney, quite close to its original 

 locality, Richmond Park. Wimbledon Common produced Lycius brunneus, Serico- 

 somus brunneus, Balaninus cerasorum and rubidus, and the very rare Zeugophora 



