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" (A. H. May) ; Leasowe (J. Chappell) ; plentiful near Little Brighton 

 " Crosby (C. S. Gregson) — Dr. Ellis, Liverpool Coleoptera. Also taken 

 at Wallesey by Mr. Wilding. "Rather common here (Cheshire); I 

 " have taken it abundantly among rushes in a wet ditch near Leasowe 

 "on the coast" (W.E.Sharp). " Very common; in fact abundant 

 " on the boggy margin of a pond at Burnham, Somerset " (R. Gillo, 

 Bath). Ireland : " The only species I have taken here. I obtained 

 " some numbers in flood rubbish in low meadows last year." (Rev. 

 F. W. Johnson, Armagh). 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Coleoptera at Ventnor. — At the end of April I spent a 

 few days at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, and during my stay was 

 fortunate enough to meet with the Rev. Canon Fowler, who kindly 

 directed me to some good localities for Coleoptera. Under stones 

 and among seaweed on the beach, I found the following species : — 

 Lymnceum nigropiceum (scarce), Homalota plumbea, Tachyusa uvida, 

 Aleochara algarum (common), Quedius fitscipes, Philonthus prolixus 

 (scarce), Cafius sericeus (not uncommon, sometimes as many as sixty or 

 seventy being under one stone), Tachinus laticollia, Homalium Iceviusculum 

 and Cercyon depresses (common). Under stones, in a small waterfall 

 near the town, I took several Dianous ccevulescens, Lesteva longelytrata, 

 L. punctata (few), and Elmis subviolacus — this latter was very common 

 in the stream above the fall, sometimes there were twenty or thirty on 

 one stone. I also found Bembidium littorale, B. jluviatile, and Leistus 

 fulvibarbis under stones on the banks of this stream. The stones on 

 the cliff were rather unproductive, single specimens of Pterostichus 

 striola, Harpalus vuficovnis, Chrysomela Gcettingensis, Ocypus jnorio, and a 

 few Pcederus littoralis being my only captures. At the roots of grass 

 and weeds growing on the cliff, I found the following : — Blechrus maurus, 

 TmcJiyphlceus scabrimlus (common), Otiorhynchas ligneus, Tychius linea- 

 tulus, Ceuthorhynchideus Dawsoni (several), and C. troglodytes. Crawling 

 about the grass were plenty of Timarcha laevigata and Meloe proscara- 

 bceus. Haltica ericeti was common on the heath at St. Boniface Down, 

 and I took a specimen of Dromius vectensis at same locality ; also a few 

 ApJiodius ater and A. tristis, and Onthophagus ovatus. 



