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flavicollis ; Mr. F. H. Waterhouse also captured a specimen of the Zeugophora the 

 day previous to our taking it. The neighbourhood of Swanage was also good this 

 year, Cicindela germanica being not uncommon ; and JBroscus eephalotes, Bemhidiiim 

 pallidipenne, Ocgpus pedator, Antherophagus silaceus, the melanic var. of HomalopJia 

 ruricola, and Anomala Frischii and its var. JuUi (four specimens), were also found in 

 some numbers there. Wicken Fen, owing to the incessant rain, was not quite as 

 good as it might have been : among our captures there were Silis ruHcollis, Lixus 

 paraplecticus and Saperda carcTiarias, the two latter in large numbers. The river 

 just above Sunbury produced Bryaxis hcematica, Synaptus filiformis (six specimens) 

 and JUrirhinus iimaculatus. Aphodius ZenJceri was very common in Richmond 

 Park in the autumn, under the old oak trees. A visit to an old cellar in Shoe Lane 

 rewarded a few hours' search with endless Meziuni affine, six of which were in their 

 perfect form with the bristles all over the elytra, and Qibhium scotias ; of these two 

 we have still a good many in duplicate, if any collectors are in want of them. A 

 day's collecting at Bardon Hill, Leicester, produced a fine series of Anisotoma 

 cinnamomea and one specimen of the rare TriartJiron MdrJceli. A capture of 

 Asemum striatum, in the New Forest at Whitsun, ] 893, was not recorded ; we believe 

 this to be the earliest record of the species from south of the border. — Beeteam Gt. 

 Eye and Peect F. Skinnee, 212, Upper Eichmond Road, Putney : November, 1894. 



Coleoptera in 1894. — During the past season I have not had many opportunities 

 for collecting ; and on the few occasions when I had a little spare time on my hands 

 the weather, as a rule, was unfavourable. Nevertheless, I managed to take a few 

 things, which may perhaps be deemed worthy of record. 



At the end of April I spent four days with my brother in the New Forest. The 

 wind was cold, and a good deal of rain fell, so thati could not do very much, except 

 in the way of searching decaying wood. The active little Orchesia undulata turned 

 up under bark and in a faggot, and, thanks to my waterproof sheet, I succeeded in 

 securing seven specimens. Thymalus limhatus was unusually common ; and a dead 

 oak yielded a couple of Mycetophagus piceus and three Anaspis Garneysi. In the 

 course of our wanderings we hit on a small dead birch, still standing, which had 

 already been visited by a Coleopterist, and partly pulled to pieces. But he had done 

 his work very imperfectly, for on overthrowing the tree by a combined push, and 

 completing its demolition, we found no less than five red Elaters — one E. lythrop- 

 terus, one !E. sanguinolentus, of the immaculate variety, and three E.pomonce. Two 

 other specimens of the last named occurred under bark of an old log, and a sixth 

 on the branch of a partly decayed tree. A dead oak on the road between Lyndhurst 

 and Brockenhurst was simply swarming with the common Dryoccetes villosus ; there 

 must have been many thousands in the tree. Among these, however, was a speci- 

 men of Callidium variahile, just out from the pupa, which I had to keep alive for 

 nearly a week, in order that its colour might develop ; and from a pupa taken from 

 the same tree I bred out a second example a fortnight later. Anotlier pupa, from 

 an old stump, produced a beautiful example of Cistela ceramboides, which I had 

 never met with before. 



Li May I got an afternoon or two at Osshott, where Pityophagusferru(fineus was 

 very abundant on the stumps of newly-cut pines. With it were a few Clerusformi- 

 carius ; iJiloma crenata and SUvanus unidentatus turned up under bark of an oak 

 stump ; Ennearthron affine was fairly common in boleti in one small spot, and all 



