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on birch, in isome nnmbert;, but restricted to three trees, Shniig-h, vii/16 ; ^Chry- 

 somela marqiimlis Diifts., several examples, and also the larvae, on Linaria (each 

 plant yielding one larva only), in hedge near Stoke Bay, vi k vii/17. The larvae 

 were easy to rear, and a single specimen of a Tachinid fly, bred from one of 

 them, has been kindly determined for me as Macquartia g risen Fin. by Mr. C. W. 

 Bracken. Amongst a considerable number of insects sent to me by my friend 

 Mr. N, Micklewood when spending a few days at The Lizard, Cornwall, in 

 July 1917 and June 1918, the following Coleoptera occurred: — *Masoieus 

 u-ettei-hali GylL, one; *Cardiophonis erichsoni Buyss,, one; (Jathormiocerus 

 maritimus Rye, one ; *Apwn curtisi Walt., six ; *A. sedi Germ., three. Also 

 single examples of the Heniiptera, Strachia oleracea L., and Sciocon's cursitans 

 Fab. Species stnrred are, I believe, new records for the lists of the respective 

 counties. — J. H. Keys, 7 VVhimple Street, Plymouth : October 'Uh, 1918. 



Geotrupes tijphoens L. in Flanders. — On 27th November, 1917, when 

 climbing Mt. Kemrael in Flanders in order to obtain a better view of certain 

 military operations then in progress, I caught sight of a Geotrupid-looking beetle 

 crawling on the wet grass close to the track on which I was walking. The 

 conditions were not such as to permit examination of the beetle, but it was 

 hastily seized, put into a matchbox — the one receptacle I had on me — and later 

 on in the evening, when we had returned to our headquarters in a safer locality, 

 I found the insect was a fine female specimen of Geotrupes typhoeus L. The 

 mildness of the autumn up to that period in Flanders was attested by the fact 

 that this insect was still crawling about in the open. The beetle has been 

 placed in my European collection as an interesting memento of a memorable 

 day and of a hill towards which the eyes of all English-speaking people were 

 turned with such anxiety a few months ago. — T. Hudson Beare, 10 Kegeut 

 Terrace Edinburgh : October 10th, 1918. 



Coleoptera raptured in the garden of the Hosjntul of St. Jean, Arras, 

 Fronce. — 1 have just had the pleasure of naming a collection of Coleoptera 

 made by Major H. M. Vickers, R.A.M.C., in the small garden of the Hospital 

 of St. Jean, Arras, during the last fortnight of May and the first week of June 

 1918. The hospital is situated in the heai t of the town, and the small garden 

 attached to it is about 10 yards broad by 15 yards long ; there are two small 

 cherry-trees, a sycamore, and a syringa, and there were a few flowers in the 

 various flower-beds. It may be mentioned that during the period in which 

 the beetles were taken, Arras was repeatedly shelled by the Germans. Only 

 three species are not British, viz.. Valgus heniipterus L., Agriotes pilosus Panz., 

 and Chlorophanus viridis L. ; there is a specimen of Agriotes pilosus in the 

 Power collection at the ]3ritish Museum, but this specimen was certainlv an 

 accidental importation. There are three other species in the collection which 

 are reputed to be British, but from the records of the captures which have 

 been made at various times they are probably not strictly indigenous to 

 Britain, viz., Carabus auratus L. (^which was fairly common), Crioceris lilii 

 Scop, (several specimens taken), and Callidium sanguineuni L. (only one speci- 

 men taken). All the other species in the collection are fairly common in 

 Great Britain, and a list of these is given : — Notiophdus biguttatus F. ; DyS' 

 chirius aeneus Dj. ; Bembidium lampros Hbst. ; Tachypus flavipes L. ; Panagaeus 



