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because the abundance or otherwise of common insects in a succession of years in the 

 same place may throw light on the movements of rarer species. — Gr. B. Longstaff, 

 Highlands, Putney Heath, S.W. : October ^Ist, 1898. 



Bucculatrix Demaryella, Stn., feeding on hazel. — Dr. J. H. Wood informs me 

 that in the Tarrington district (Herefordshire) he breeds Bucculatrix Demaryella 

 from hazel {Corylus avellana) as well as birch, which latter is its only recorded 

 food-plant. This interesting fact throws a new light upon Stainton's statements 

 [ZooL, 1848, p. 2157 ; Ins. Brit. Lep. Tin., 293 (1854)] about the occurrence of 

 specimens among hazel hushes in the south of Scotland, for after Mr. T. Wilkinson's 

 discovery of the larva on birch (Ent. Wk. Int., 1856, p. 171), we hear no more 

 about the insect being associated with hazel, and presumably it was supposed that 

 the moths taken amongst it were there merely by accident, which, in view of Dr. 

 Wood's experience, seems highly improbable. — Eustace E.. Bankes, The Rectory, 

 Corfe Castle : November \st, 1898. 



Anchomenus gracilipes : correction. —The date of capture of the specimen I 

 recorded last month {vide ante Ent. Mo. Mag., 2nd series, vol. ix, p. 221) should 

 have been June 11th, not July 11th. — Claude Moeley. 



Xylophilus brevicornis, Ferris, at Heathfield, Sussex. — Of this rare British 

 species I captured six specimens, including both sexes, at Heathfield, Sussex, in 

 August last. They vrere found in the rotten wood of a felled beech tree. — W. A. 

 Beetoe, 129, Harley Street, W. : November \Qth, 1898. 



Sarpalus discoideus,Fabr., at Oxford. — AsIIarpalus discoideus seems to occur 

 in so few places, it may be worth while to note that I have this season been taking 

 it, in company with H. ignavus, in the sandpits near Oxford. — W. Hoiiand, 69, 

 Observatory Street, Oxford : November 16th, 1898. 



Trachys pumila. III., and other beetles in Kent. — In 1896 I took three specimens 

 of Trachys pumila, 111., at Dodington, Kent : two in March (one at sallow, and the 

 other under a stone in an adjoining chalk pit), while the third occurred in August by 

 sweeping grass about half a mile off. Other interesting beetles which have recently 

 been found in the locality are : Panagceus quadripustulatus, Sturm, Licinus depressus, 

 Payk., HomoBUsa acuminata, Mark., Atemeles emarginatus, Payk., Liodes humeralis, 

 Kug., Agathidium marginatum, Sturm, Amphicyllis globus, F., Sydnobius strigosus, 

 Schmidt, Anisotoma badia, Sturm (abundant in the spring of 1894 in partially flooded 

 ground, rare since), Colenis dentipes, G-yll., Colon latum, Kr., Nitidula rufipes, L., 

 Olibrus pygmaus, Stui'm (at roots of grass), Focadius ferrugineus, E., Epurcea 

 melanocephala, Marsh., Hyperaspis reppensis, Herbst, Flatynaspis luteoruhra, Goeze, 

 Aphodius 4i-maculatus, L. (one taken flying this spring), ZenJceri, Grerm., obliteratus, 

 Panz., nitidulus, E., sticticus, FeLnz.,foetens, E., pusillus, Herbst, and consputus, Cr., 

 Ccenocara fiovistce, Hofl., Chrysomela gaettingensis, L., varians, Schall., hyperioi, 

 Eorst. (the latter taken this year on October 23rd in some numbers), Cassida sangui- 

 nolenta, E., and vibex, E., Stylops melittcB, Kirby (one male and females abundant 

 on Andrena Trimmerana in 1896). 



