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Re-occwirence of Coccinella lahilis.—I took ten specimens of this 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 Koad, June, 1868. 
Ccupture of Ceuthorhynchibs urticce. — At the end of last April, by sweeping 
mixed herbage in Headley Lane, Mickleham, I took two specimens of a Ceuthor- 
hynchus, which, as they correspond with the late Mr. Walton's type of C. urtica 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, Sfc, near 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 Hydradephaga. 
This stream crosses the Kingston Road at Beverley (or Bavely) Bridge, skirts 
Richmond Pai-k 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 
difficult 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 with 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, 
S. melanarius is the best ; of which I have taken my row, by single specimens 
mostly. BwpMhalmus, with 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 Ut^le fomicatus, 
whose white knees give the idea of a solution of " continuity " between body and legs, 
has here rejoiced my eyes ; and plantaris, which I never before heard of as occurring 
neai' London, picipennis (most " stumpy " of Steni) and latifrons (whose body, d la 
Kiesenwetteri, it is impossible to elongate too much), both in profusion, and in eras- 
satm, are the next in degree ; nitidiusculvs, canaliculatus, melanopus (a most active 
creature), pusillus, the continentally much-vexed ossium, bif&i'eolatus (the real one, 
alas!) and hinotatus heading the profanum vi'lgus, — Juno, speculator, Rogerij 
