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In the mean time I cannot say mucli about geographical distri- 

 bution. Excepting I. torrentium and I. tripunctata, my remarks are 

 based on continental material received for the most part from time to 

 time from Professor Klapalek (Bohemia), Dr. Fr. Eis (Switzerland), 

 and Dr. John Sahlberg (Finland and Finnish Lapland). 



13, Blackford Road, Edinburgh : 

 May, 189S. 



Rhinomacer attelaboides, F., at Ipswich. — I was most agreeably surprised at 

 taking a pair of this Scotch insect here, whilst beating in a fir wood for Pezomachi, 

 on the 11th of May last. They were not, however, in copula, but beaten from two 

 different trees of Pinus sylvestris some hundred yards apart. Its most southern 

 locality previously recorded is near Ripon, in Yorkshire, where, I believe, Mr. Water- 

 house took it many years ago. Mr. Brockton Tomlin, however, informs me that a 

 specimen was found by a lad in Delamere Forest last year, and brought for his in- 

 spection. At the time of capture the pines were in full blossom, and the female, 

 doubtless, was about to deposit her eggs therein. It is curious that so essentially 

 northern an insect should appear here before being noted in the intervening counties. 

 Possibly our versatile climate may be responsible ; at all events it is both a most 

 curious and interesting addition to the Suffolk fauna. — Claude Moeley, Ipswich : 

 June, 1898. 



[The occurrence of R. attelahoides in Suffolk is certainly interesting, but the case 

 is not without parallel : a considerable number of Scotch forms have been found by 

 Mr. W. Gr. Blatch and others in the Midlands, and Asemum striatum, which used to 

 be regarded as exclusively a Scotch species, has occuri'ed several times in the New 

 Forest district ; possibly in some cases insects have been transplanted from one part 

 of the country to another, but this explanation by no means covers all the instances, 

 and it would seem that we have yet very much to learn regarding the distribution 

 of even our British insects. — W. W. F.]. 



Somalota {Dilacra) pruinosa, Kraatz, at Ouildford. — I have during the past 

 week captured three specimens of this peculiar little Somalota on the downs at 

 Gruildford. They were found running on the bare chalk, in the bright sunshine, 

 after a shower, in a sheltered place, where, by chance, I sat down for a few moments' 

 rest. Syncalypta spinosa, Rossi, occurred abundantly, as well as Platystethus 

 capita, Heer, sparingly, at the same place. S. pruinosa was introduced by me as 

 a British insect last year (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxiii, p. 274), upon specimens found at 

 Chesham, Bucks, by Mr. E. Q-. Elliman, who also found it running upon the chalk 

 in the bright sunshine. — Gr. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking : June Uh, 1898. 



Coleoptera in the neighlourhood of Chesham, Bucks. — During February and 

 March of this year, I found the following species in moss, gathered in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Chesham : Oxypoda lentula, abundant, in a marshy wood ; Ocyusa 

 incrassata, Somalota clancula, very sparingly; Philonthus fumigatus (1), Bythinus 

 validus, B. Burrelli (all females), B, Curtisi, Colon latum (2), Thyamis anchusae 

 (3), Mniophila muscorum. 



