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grubbing among the pine needles and pine stumps I found Oxypoda 

 pallidnla, Mycetoporus lucidus and Scajihidiuin 4 — maculatuin. On 

 June 24th, the weather was absolute perfection, not a breath of wand, 

 and not a cloud ; so that insects, and especially Coleoptera, were 

 swarming. 3 kept to the lanes round the district, and my operations 

 were almost entirely confined to sweepiag. Cionus hortulanus, 

 C. blattarice, C. pulcJielliis, dieorhinus exaratiis, CeutJiovhynchus canipestris 

 and C. asperifolianuji were common ; w'hilst single specimens of 

 Anapis thoyacica , Liopus iiebulosns, Apioii cnientatum^ Micvopeplus povcatiis^ 

 and Ceiithorhynchiis cochleartce put in an appearance. I also took Cis 

 festiviis from fungi ; and whilst my brother was breaking off the bark 

 from an old birch stump, he turned out Melandvya cavaboides. When 

 we got back to the station, my brother found a specimen of Elatev 

 balteatus among some pine shoots which he had brought away wdth 

 him. — H. Heasler, Peckham. 



Sphinx Cowolvuli in the Isle of Man.— On the 8th November, 

 I had brought to me a beautiful spechiien of this insect, which was 

 captured by Mr. C. Bacon, in his ground at Seafield, Santon, the 

 latter end of September. It is in very good preservation, and 

 measures almost five inches across the wings, from tip to tip. The 

 taking of S. convolvuli in the island, is generally recorded every year, 

 and as a rule the specimens which have been brought to me have 

 been found close to the coast. — H. Shortridge Clarke, 2, Osborne 

 Terrace, Douglas, Isle of Man, November 1 tJi, 1892. 



Beetles. — I was fortunate enough to obtain ten fine specimens of 

 rare Cybalicus oblongiusculiis, a very rare beetle allied to Harpalus, in 

 July last, on the South Coast. — Rev. Fred O. Pickard-Cambridge» 

 CarHsle, November 10th, 1892. 



Coleas Edusa in Wiltshire. — After several years of absence this 

 species has occurred in many parts of the- country to the delight of 

 all entomologists, Whilst on my holidays in August, I found it in 

 abundance on the railway banks and waste places, at a small village 

 called Eacock. I could have taken dozens, but I felt greater pleasure 

 in w^atching them fly from flower to fiower in company wdth Rhamni, 

 lo., Atalanta, Cardui, and the Common Blue, the latter occurred in 

 hundreds. I also saw Ediisa, at Thatcham, in Berkshire, and I have 

 also heard of the capture of a single specimen near the town here, so 

 I think it has occurred in most counties this season. — G. Pullen, 

 Derby. 



A.MONG various Coleoptera wlhch I lately collected at Conrton, 

 County Wexford, I have a male Philouthus cben'nius, which shows some 



