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freely on Cardials nutans at the same place, and C. nigrimis, on Fiimaria, at 

 Wood Eaton; and at Shotover C. pmictiger was very common on dandelioi s 

 in May, and the pretty C. triangiilum and C. barnevillei {chevrolati) were taken 

 rather freely on the young growth o^ Achillea millefolium, in company AAith a 

 good many Ca.<isi(la sanf/uinoleyita. Of the last-named species, all the specimens 

 of the second brood, which 1 have talct-n here as well as at Ued in August and 

 September, are of the unicoloroiis green form. The curious little lihytido.^ontus 

 globulus still bolds its own well in its restricted locality near Cothill, Berks. 



An excursion to the Blewbury Downs with the members of our Natural 

 History Society on May 80th produced but few beetles, the most plentiful 

 species met with being Phyllobius viridicollis, unexpectedly common so far 

 south ; but a fresh specimen of Smicrony.v reichei was a decidedly welcome 

 addition to the Berkshire County List of Coleoptera.— James J. Walker, 

 Aorangi, Lonsdale Road, Sunimertown, Oxford: July \&Ji, 1918. 



Donacia clavipes F. at home. — Dr. Vinter and I paddled down the Norfolk 

 Bure from Coltishall one hot afternoon late last Julb, and turned up a back- 

 water to the south, just beyond Belaugh. All the way we had vainly searched 

 the numerous flowers of Nuphar luteum for this tine Donacia. The presence of 

 a small colony of the white Aphis (Hyahpterus aru7idi7iis Fab.) on the stem 

 of a reed {I'hragmites communis) caused me idly to unroll its leaf — and there 

 was 1). clavipes snugly ensconced at its base. We examined many reeds, 

 but only those that supported the Aphis gave also the Donacia; usually 

 these grew direct from the water. Ten minutes' work produced a line series ; 

 and in one or two cases we detected the beetle actually in the act of devouring 

 the Aphides or their honey-dew. But none were apparent : all sheltered from 

 tlie heat within the curled leaf, where one or two pairs were in cop. The 

 species has never occurred to me outside East Anglia : in the flowers of yellow 

 water-lilies it was rare at Ipswich in 189G, and very common at Horning in 

 1901 ; I have swept it singly from reeds at Chippenbam in Cambs., and at 

 Mildenball in Suffolk, whence it has also been recorded from Frittou, Bungnv, 

 and Oulton Broad, always, I believe, only during the latter half of June. — 

 — Claude Morley, Monks Soham : July 1st, 1918. 



Elater sanguinolentus Schr., var. jmleatus Cand. at Wimbledon. — 1 have 

 captured two specimens of this variety on Wimbledon Common — one in June 

 1917, the other early in tlie same month of this year. D.paleatus was described 

 in 1893 from two examples taken by M. Gerard near Hasselt in the north of 

 Belgium; it differs from the type in having the elytra yellow, instead of the 

 customary bright red colour. Both my specimens possess the black spot common 

 to the type. I am indebted to Mr. Blair for the name of this varietal form, 

 which is not represented in the British Museum. It is not noticed by Fowler. 

 — Cedric W. Cameron, "St. Oswalds,'' Claughton, Birkenhead: Jidy 1918. 



Kote on Alianta pictipennis Fauv. — In the " Bevue d'^^ntomologie/' xxiv, 

 1005, p. 142, Fauvel described under the above name a Staphyliuid, taken by 

 myself at Perim and Kamaran, on the Red Sea littoral, on sandy beaches under 

 feeaweed. In general appearance the insect resembles Heterota Rey. A micro- 

 scopical examination shows the tarsal formula to be 4, 4, 5, and the structure 



