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and a capture of Caenopfera {Motor elms) minor by Prof. Beare forms, 

 if I am not mistaken, a new record for this particular district. 

 The same may be said of Tetropiwn gahrieli, five or six of which 

 occurred in one stump of Scots pine. It may be noted that of these, 

 evidently all one species, the legs of some were clear red and of others 

 almost black ; but the fact that they were found in pine, not larch, and 

 in a single stump close to a railway along which have been can'ied during 

 the last two years very large quantities of timber from various pai-ts of 

 England, supj^orts the presumption that the species was thus introduced 

 from some other locality, and owing to the absence of larch, the proper 

 larval food-tree, will not spread or perhaps even be maintained here. 



Crioceplialus polonicus, however, which appeared in some numbers 

 during 1916, has been exceedingly rare this year ; and another species, 

 taken in 1916 but not seen this year, has been Phytoecia cylindrica. 



Phytophagous beetles were generally remarkable during the past 

 season foi* their early appearance and very brief life in the perfect state. 

 Thus JPhytodecta viminalis for about ten days swarmed wherever there 

 was an}'' aspen or sallow and Melasoma populi wherever white poplar 

 occurred ; Cryptoceplialiis hipunctatus, var. lineola, was much less 

 frequent than usual, but C. higuttatus was again taken in July by 

 Mr. Tomlin. Ltiperus longicornis {riijipes), a species which usually 

 occurs in the utmost profusion on the young bii'ches during June and 

 July, was this summer much less abundant than in previous years. 



One of the most noteworth}" captures among the MhyncliopJiora 

 during the present year has been that of several specimens of Ilhino- 

 macer cdtelahoides hj beating the loppings of the Scots pine. This 

 beetle, like Asemum striatum^ is probablj'' an example of the spread 

 southward during recent years of species formerly considered exclusively 

 northern in range, made possible by the extension of the growth of the 

 pine, and not, as in the case of Agonum ericeti, one of the most surprising 

 of recent New Forest captures, a lingering vestige of a long-supplanted 

 fauna. The Wiyncliopliora were, generally, perhaps below their average 

 numbers this j^ear except during June, when a few common forms were 

 in great profusion. Among species not previously noticed were Antlio- 

 no7nus pomorumy Dorytomus dejeani, and, in September 1916, Cryphalus 

 abietis, beaten from dead spruce-twigs. 



In the Seteromeraj Anthicus jioralis was frequent in the unusual 

 situation of beneath planks laid on the heaps of sawdust from the saw- 

 mills now established in many places in the woods, and Hypopliloeus 

 linearis was taken in some numbers on the wing over heaps of pine- 

 loppings one warm still evening in June. 



