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Fissodes notatus near Wellington, Berks. — On July 16th and 17th I found over 

 thirty specimens of Fissodes notatus near Wellington, under the bark of a felled 

 Scotch fir; several of them were ju*t emerging from their cocoons, but there were 

 also quite a number of chrysalides and immature beetles. This usually northern 

 species has, therefore, occurred far inland in the south. I believe that Bournemouth 

 is the only other southern locality for this species. — L. M. Bucknill, Wellington 

 College, Berks : December 12tk, 1897. 



Fissodes notatus, F., near Bournemouth. — While collecting one afternoon lately 

 at a place called " Ferndown " (Dorset), near Bournemouth, I took two specimens 

 of this species in a fir plantation — E. J. Burgess Sopp, Saxholme, Hoylake : 

 December 11th, 1897. 



CoJeoptera notabilia of the Liverpool district during 1897. — The following 

 species have been added to our list of local Coleoptera during the past year. 

 Gyrinus opacus, Leasowe. Helophorus rugosus, swept from herbage some distance 

 from water, Sealand. Orypeta labilis, several localities. Tachyusa flavitarsis, 

 Hoylake. Diglossa mersa, sea shore, Formby. Fcederus littoralis, Hoylake. Aga- 

 thidium nigripenne, Willason, under aspen bark. Hoplia philanthus, Wallasey. 

 Sericosomus brunneus and Lyctus canaliculatus, Delamere. Ochina hederce, Led- 

 sham, in ivy on tree trunks, abundant. Mordellistena brunnea, Ledsham. Otior- 

 rhynchus afroapterus, Formby sandhills. Sitones cambricus, Ledsham. Ceuthor- 

 rhynchiis rugulosus, Stanlow and Chester. Hylastes opacus and H. obscurus, 

 Delaniore Forest, in bark of pine stumps ; and Hylesinus vittatus, Shotwick, 

 abundant in an elm rail. 



Besides the above records it may be thought worth while to mention that 

 Carabus nitens has again been taken at Freshfield (damp places in the sandhills) and 

 at Knowsley. Bembidium stomoides, at mouth of River Alt ; and Chlanius 

 nigricornis, banks of Gowey, neither species having been recorded from the district 

 for nearly twenty years. JEgialia rufa was taken in June at Wallasey, and a single 

 specimen of Anthicus bimaculatus in a dead sea bird on the shore at Formby. 



Of the above species other records seem to afford evidence that 1897 lias been 

 a year of abundance for C. nitens and F. littoralis. 



It may be of interest, in view of the interesting and suggestive remarks by Mr. 

 Barrett in recent issues of this Magazine, to state — 



(1). That the " Liverpool district " hei-e referred to consists of the plain of 

 S.W. Lancashire south of the Kibble, and N.W. Cheshire between the Eastern hills 

 and valley of the Dee; the region so delimitated being of one uniform geological 

 character, that of the sandstone of the Trias, generally overlaid by the boulder 

 clays, and comprising besides the cultivated area, coast sandhills, peat mosses, de- 

 tached woodlands, and heaths. 



(2). Tliat the recording of the entomological fauna is a work officially undertaken 

 by a local Society (the Entomological Society of Lane, and Clies.), and assigned by 

 it to a Special Committee, which reports annually to that Society additions in all 

 Orders of Insects to the local faunistic lists, each record in any Order being verifictl 



bv the member of the " Record Committee " responsible for that Order. 

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