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Athous rhombeus, 01., at Cohham Park. — I beg to record that I took a speci- 

 men of Athous rhombeus, 01., on July lOth last, in a rotten beech tree in Cobham 

 Park ; I noticed a rather sweet smell, so attacked the rotting part, and found this 

 beetle only a short time emerged from its pupal case, as the elytra were quite soft. — 

 James Malings, Shooter's Hill, Kent : August 2lst, 1890. 



Note on Scopmus Srichsoni and Hydroporus Davisii. — -The Scopceus ? sp. from 

 Ludlow and Bewdley {ante p. 190) appears to be the true S. Erichsoni, M. Fauvel 

 informing me that it agrees in every way with continental examples of that species. 

 Canon Fowler's description of S. Erichsoni is either erroneus or applicable to 

 another species, inasmuch, as in my beetle the 7th segment of the male has not the 

 slightest trace of a tooth in the middle. I have examined a good many specimens, 

 and find the male characters very constant. Since my last note, as above referred 

 to, I have taken Hydroporus Davisii in Dowlo's Brook, Bewdley Forest, and in the 

 Lightspout at Church Stretton. I should like to point out here that Church Stretton 

 is in Shropshire, not " Cheshire," as erroneously stated in Canon Fowler's 4th 

 vol. " Coleoptera of the British Islands." — W. Q-. Blatch, Knowle, Birmingham : 

 July 11th, 1890. 



[I have never had the good fortune to see a Scopaus alive ; the figure of the 7th 

 segment of the male, as given by Mulsant and Rey (Histoire Naturelle des Col. de 

 France, Pederiens, plate v, fig. 7), shows a blunt toothlikc prominence in the middle ; 

 it may have been drawn from a shrivelled specimen. — W. W. F.]. 



Coleoptera in the New Forest. — The first fortnight of August I spent at Lynd- 

 hurst, and devoted most of my time to looking up the sub-cortical beetles. Decaying 

 wood, both standing and fallen, was fairly plentiful, and, though I obtained nothing 

 absolutely new to my collection, I came across several species witji which I had never 

 met before. The most noticeable captures were the following : Synchita juglandis, 

 two specimens, from a dead standing beech, the bark of which was just ready to 

 come away. The same tree also produced four Ci-yphalus fagi, one Cistela alba, 

 three Litargus bifasciatns, and a lot of Rhinosimus ruficollis, Thymalus limbatus, 

 seven specimens ; this insect appears to prefer the loose bark on the branches of 

 standing oaks, and sometimes takes shelter under a fragment scarcely large enough 

 to conceal it. When living, the pubescence gives it a curiously mouldy appearance, 

 and I quite thought for a moment that the first specimens which I found had been 

 dead for several months. Scaphidium 4-maculattnn and Scaphisoma boleti were 

 common under fungus-covered logs, from which the bark had not been removed. 

 Ccenocara hovistcs, three specimens, from a standing oak ; Leptura scutellata, one, 

 sitting on newly-cut faggots ; Prionus coriarius, one, under dead leaves at the roots 

 of an oak ; Cerylon angustatmn , very common under bark of oak and beech ; Hele- 

 dona agaricicola, one, from white fungus in a hollow tree ; Ptinus Q-punctatus, one, 

 sitting on the shutter of a shop-window in the village. Under the bark of decaying 

 logs I found Euplectus nigricans and hicolor, Bythinus Curtisi, plentifully, Paro- 

 malus Jlavicornis, AbrcBus globosus, Lathridius elongatus (1), and a couple of Liodes 

 orbicularis. Boleti produced Cis fuscatus, bidentatus, and vitidus, and a small 

 sand-pit was swarming with Syntomium (sneum, which had fallen in from above, and 

 were vainly trying to find their way back to freedom. — Thkodoee Wood, Baldock, 

 Herts : September 3rd, 1890. 



