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ScydmcBnidee, which still await identification. Above all, I found five pupae and 

 three larvae of a very large " click." These I kept, taking only one larva, which was 

 full-grown, and chani^ed in a day or two. They have all since emerged except one 

 pupa, which was injured, and, as I expected, proved to be Athous rhombeus. 



The larva has been described by Dufour and Schiodte, whose description is 

 quoted in Fowler's " Coleoptera of the British Isles" (vol. iv, 97) ; tliis is accurate, 

 except in two small points : the dorsal scuta of the meso- and metathorax are 

 covered only with scattered punctures of moderate deptli, wliile the rugose confluent 

 punctures are confined to the abdomen, the colour is deej) pitchy-black on all the 

 harder chitinous parts. This black colour and coarse punctuation give it a very 

 characteristic appearance. The time passed in the pupal state is from twelve to 

 fourteen days. 



Out of a similar stump I dug a lot of rotten mould, and found a small and 

 active beetle, which looked like a Colon, but which was the rare Choleva colonoides. 

 Of course I am sorry now I did not work harder for others, but this form of regret 

 is not unknown to other collectors who do not recognise what they catch. 



Other captures under the bark of oak and beech trees were Synchita juglandls 

 (2), Litargus bifasciatus, and Mycetoporus atomarius, occasionally common, Tiresias 

 serra, and Haplocnemns nigricornis, of which I took one dead example. 



My last find before leaving was a colony of Melasis, in a tree south of the 

 charcoal-burners' huts, between Lyndhurst and Boldrewood. I got about a dozen 

 with much labour ; but I shall be tempted to take a carpenter with me, if I re-visit 

 them. 



Two or three Carabus nitens were taken on the heaths near Lyndhurst, and 

 since my return I have bred a number of Scolytus intricatus, and some half-dozen 

 Conopalpus testaceus from bark and wood collected in the Forest. — W. F. H. 

 Blandfoed, 48, Wimpole Street, London, W. : July, 1890. 



Pionosomus varius, Wolff, at Deal. — Having recently met with Pionosomus 

 varius, of which species but one previous capture in England appears to have been 

 recorded, some of your readers may be glad to know the exact spot where I took it. 

 This is not difficult to indicate, it being close to the Fort and Coast Guard Station, 

 situated about 3^ miles north of Deal, and 2 miles east of Sandwich. The area to 

 which it seemed to me to be limited was a cart track leading down to the beach, 

 about 100 yards north of the Fort, skirting a part of the Sandhills, enclosed and 

 used as golf links by the St. George's Club ; the notice to trespassers will serve as a 

 guide, for the dozen specimens I obtained were all taken within 100 yards of that. 

 The cart track is overgrown with stonecrop and Erodium, under the shelter of which 

 the insect was running about singly and not abundantly. — A. Piffakd, Boxmoor, 

 Hants. : July Qth, 1890. 



BlEMINGHAM ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY: June\Qth,\%QO. — Mr. W. G. Blatch, 

 President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Herbert Stone presented a number of dried plants, to form the basis of a 

 herbarium for the Society's use. Mr. E. C. Tye showed larvae of Lobophora viretata. 



