2,io [December, 



three species of Corynetes occurred in the dried carcase of a dog, C. ruficollis and 

 C. violaceus being in the utmost profusion ; Magdalinus cerasi tumbled into my 

 umbrella, from hawthorn blossom ; and two days after my first visit to this locality, 

 I found a specimen of Callidium alni behind the ribbon of my hat, on which I 

 suppose it must have fallen while I was engaged in shaking the branches of trees. 

 A single example of Anisotoma nigrita found its way into my sweeping-net, but I 

 had no opportunity of working for the genus at dusk. 



In the middle of June I had one day at Darenth, but unluckily the place was 

 over-run with wood ants, which must have been present literally in millions. One 

 could not sit down for them ; they filled the sweeping-net, and, worse still, they 

 appeared to have eaten all the beetles. So all I got were a couple of Agrilus lati- 

 cornis, a single Cryptocephalus fulcratus from a dwarf birch, and an example of 

 Magdalinus harhicornis, besides a few common things. 



A week later I had a couple of days' collecting at Newbury, and worked care- 

 fully along the canal from Thatcham. My best captures were a couple of Dasytes 

 niger and a solitary Phyllotreta sinuata ; Baris T-album was fairly plentiful in a 

 marshy meadow, and Dryophilus pusillus swarmed at dusk on the grass beneath 

 trees in a little copse. 



A couple of days at Happisburgh, Norfolk, in the middle of September, were 

 rather disappointing, but an easterly wind was blowing. Fungi growing on old 

 trees, however, yielded plenty of Triphyllus punctatus and a single Orchesia micans ; 

 seven Nebria livida turned up on the shore, under leaves of coltsfoot resting upon 

 the sand ; and a single Trechus micros was walking along the foot of the cliff, 

 apparently bent on a voyage of discovery. My strangest capture was a specimen of 

 Donacia lidens, hiding under rubbish on the shore, and miles away from the nearest 

 fresh water. A nice example of Saperda carcharias, taken close by, was given me 

 by a friend. — Theodobb Wood, 23, Brodrick Road, Upper Tooting, S.W. : October 

 lOtli, 1894. 



Adimonia aelandica, BoJi., at Westtoard Ho ! — -I have lately had the pleasure 

 of naming a specimen of this rare insect, which was found by a young lady floating 

 in the swimming bath at Westward Ho ! Oddly enough, an example of the only 

 other British species of the genus {A. tanaceti) was taken in the same place and 

 at the same time. — Id. 



Coleoptera in the Plymouth district. — The following species have, with one or 

 two exceptions, been taken by me in the neighbourhood of Plymouth since the 

 publication of my last note in this Magazine {cf. vol. xxviii, pp. 23, 24) : — 



jElaphrus uliginosus, singly, on two occasions, on damp spots on the moor ; 

 Harpalus tenebrosus, frequent, in Mr. J. J. Walker's old locality at Whitsand Bay ; 

 Pterostichiis dimidiatus, a single specimen, given to me by Mr. Lemann, caught near 

 Salcombe ; Aepus marinus and Ae. Robini, both in numbers on the shore ; Dytiscus 

 punctulatus, in a weedy ditch, very local, in just one spot ; Deroneetes latus 

 (2), D. depressus, and D. 12-pustulatus, in quantity ; Hydroporus septentrionalis 

 and H. rivalis and]Orectochilus villosus, in plenty, out of weed in the river Meavy ; 

 EydrcBua gracilis, several specimens, and H. pygmcea, a single example (identified 

 by Mr. Champion), in flood refuse about an old stump in the same river; Diglossa 

 mersa, one specimen, under a stone on the shore ; Ocypus brunnipes (1), under bark ; 



