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Re-occ\i)rence of Coccinella lahih's. — I took ten speciraens of tliis insect on the 

 1st inst., at the same place where I took it before, viz., a wood lying between 

 Whitstable and Canterbury. I found them, as before, on heath, but only when the 

 sun was out, in the middle of the day. In cloudy weather I could not find any, by 

 beating the heath or otherwise. They were confined within the space of a few 

 yards, on a few plants growing at the side of a narrow path ; and searching the 

 woods for miles in other directions failed to produce any more. The insect seems 

 to vary somewhat in size. — G. C. Champion, 274, Walworth Road, June, 1868. 



Capture of Ceiithorhynchus urticos. — At the end of last April, by sweeping 

 mixed herbage in Headley Lane, Micklehara, I took two specimens of a Ceuthor- 

 hyncJius, which, as they correspond with the late Mr. Walton's type of C. v/rticce in 

 the National Collection, must, I think, be referred to that species. They at first 

 sight resemble Cceliodes didymus, but are considerably narrower than that common 

 insect. — Id. 



Further notes on Coleoptera, ^c, nea/r Putney. — In some former notes upon Coombe 

 Wood I mentioned a small stream, forming the extreme western boundary of 

 Wimbledon Common, and in which I have found many running- water Hyd/radephaga* 

 This stream crosses the Kingston Koad at Beverley (or Bavely) Bridge, skirts 

 Richmond Park on the east, thence arrives at Barnes Common, where it is divided 

 on the northern side of that waste into two or three channels, and eventually 

 disembogues itself into the Thames under the first of those narrow iron bridges so 

 diflBcult to pass on University Boat-race days. In a small portion of one of the 

 Barnes Common channels above alluded to, which receives the drainage of a part 

 of the Common and abounds vnth the Sweet-Rush, I have found several beetles 

 which are not universally abundant, and whereof a few particulars may not be 

 uninteresting. I have been astonished at the number of species of Stenus to be 

 found in the above-mentioned limited collecting-ground. Of that genus I have 

 already taken twenty-two species in it, — some not of the most trivial. Of them, 

 6. melanarius is the best ; of which I have taken my row, by single specimens 

 mostly. Buphthalrmis, witli which it is very likely to be confounded, must be 

 bottled indiscriminately by those who wish to take this insect, which may be 

 recognised at home from its plebeian congener by the darker basal joint of its 

 palpi, its rather less robust build, thinner legs, rather longer elytra (which are not 

 so closely punctured, and exhibit scarcely a trace of the confluent rough punctures 

 behind) and not quite so closely punctured abdomen. These characters are liable 

 to the stigma of " cramhe repetita;'* but it may possibly be of help if I again draw 

 attention to them. Next to melanarius, the suddenly bloated, quaint little fomicatus, 

 whose white knees give the idea of a solution of " continuity " between body and legs, 

 has here rejoiced my eyes ; a,ndplantaris, which I never before heard of as occurring 

 near London, picipennis (most " stumpy " of Steni) and latifrons (whose body, d la 

 Kiesenwetteri, it is impossible to elongate too much), both in profusion, and incraS' 

 sat'us, Sire the next in degree ; nitidiusculus, canaliculatus, melanopus (a most active 

 •creature) , pusilhis, the continentally much-vexed ossium, hifoveolatus (the real one, 

 alas ! ) and hinotatus heading the profanum indgus, — Juno, speculator, Rogeri, 



