80 [September, 
Captures of Coleoptera.—A day or two at Llangollen, in the early part of June, 
produced a few pretty good things. From hazel I beat a pair of Telephorus unicolor, 
and Oryptocephalus fulcratus (flavilabris, Wat. Cat.) ; also, under similar circum- 
stances, Gonioctena pallida, sparingly ; whilst a hedge composed of maple, hazel, 
thorn, and elm yielded Pyrrhochroa coccinea, Opilus mollis, Clythra 4-maculata, 
Telephorus alpinus, Clytus mysticus, Hedobia imperialis, Sc. 
On the flowers of umbelliferous plants Pachyta 8-maculata appeared rather 
freely, together with a few specimens of @demera cerulea. Sweeping met with 
but indifferent results, the only noteworthy capture being a pair of Sitones 
cambricus. 
Running on a pathway, a single example of Lebia chlorocephala sported its 
brilliant colours, and in a rotten willow stump Sinodendrum was in great numbers. 
On a mountain road, under very dry horse-droppings, I met with a single g 
specimen of Aleochara ruficornis ; and, under bark from an old rail, three specimens 
of Hypophleus depressus. 
In the latter part of June, I took a hurried trip to Sherwood with my friend 
John Ray Hardy, our most interesting captures being as follows :—by beating oaks, 
Conopalpus Vigorsit and var. testaceus, Uryptocephalus querceti and Tiresias serra. 
We also met with Xylophilus pygmeus very sparingly under the same circumstances, 
together with which insect I was fortunate enough to take one specimen of Scraptia 
fuscula and another of Prionocyphon serricornis (the latter has I believe been as- 
sociated with ants’ nests; its capture on oak may thus prove additionally 
interesting). 
We saw but one Cistela ceramboides, which fell to my companion’s lot, far 
away from the part of the forest where we captured it last year. 
Under very rotten moist bark of a fallen oak we met with Eryw atra in all its 
stages, and have since reared a few of the pup. 
Under birch bark, in fungoid growth, the following occurred to us ; 2 specimens 
of Plegoderus dissectus, and Aspidophorus orbiculatus, and solitary examples (alas! ) 
of Lathridius testaceus and consimilis (?) and of the rare Sphindus dubius. 
The Sternovi were conspicuous by their absence, the only capture beyond the 
most common species being a single example of Hlater cinnabarinus (lythropterus, 
Wat. Cat.), which Hardy dug out of rotten birch. 
Birch bark also yielded Hypophleus castaneus in some numbers. I may here 
remark, for the edification of those who possess Eros afinis, that its habitat, so far 
as Sherwood is concerned, is, I am much afraid, destroyed; the greater part of the 
decaying wood, where it occurred to us in 1868, having been cleared away by the 
foresters. 
In the first week of July we spent three or four days in the Burnt Woods near 
Market Drayton, Staffordshire, where we captured Cryptocephalus punctiger, fulcratus 
and lineola by beating birches, C. 10-punctatus and var. bothnicus on dwarf sallow, 
Saperda populmea on poplar, and Lina wnew on alder.—J. Kipson Taytor, 3, Shake- 
speare Terrace, Old Trafford, Manchester, August, 1870. 
Occurrence of Pissodes notatus near Manchester.—A few weeks ago, I took on 
Chat-Moss one or two examples of Pissodes notatus ; and, on a subsequent occasion, 
