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went to Deal on the chance of finding Ceuthorhynclius tarsaUs in the locality 
'here it had occurred a few years ago, and beat diligently every food-plant I could 
36, but without success. About a fortnight afterwards the insect turned up upon 
be S. E. R., between the Hythe and Shorncliffe stations, not a plant of Sisymbrium 
eing, so far as I could ascertain, within sight. I only procured a single specimen. 
Ipon the same bank, at various spots and various times since the 1st of May, have 
ccurred the following : — Ceu,thorhynch{ide)us punctiger and Chevrolatii (^respec- 
ively, I suspect, to marginatus and troglodytes) ; C. terminatus, the first time I have 
een the insect alive ; Tropiphorus carinatus, a very hermit among beetles, and 
pparently quite indifferent as to his quarters, so that there be no partner to 
hare them. I have taken it repeatedly during the last ten years, — from bare 
halk and long grass, damp wood and dry banks, — and at almost all seasons : moss 
Q the winter months affording the best chance ; but I never found more than 
ne at a time, in spite of strict searching. 
Phytonomus suspiciosus is scarce hereabouts j Apion craccce, also scarce ; but 
h-ypidius equiseti and Sitones cambricus are not veiy rare in this neighbourhood. 
'. may also mention that both Poophagi have appeared in a new locality, a private 
vatercress bed belonging to a friend and neighbour of mine j which is the more 
atisfactory, as the old habitat is quite hopeless — the cress having been entirely 
lusted by stinging-nettles. 
I have just beaten a red- vring- cased Harpalus servus, Sturm, from hazel, on 
I chalk bank near Covert Wood, East Kent ; and make a note of this, under the 
mpression that the insect has hitherto been recorded only as a littoral species, 
md, therefore, not amongst the tree-climbing Oeodephaga. I am ready to exhibit 
he specimen should any doubt be felt as to its correct identification. I have no 
iuch doubt myself, having examples from Romney Sands wherewith to compare 
t.— W. Tylden, Stanford, Hythe, I9th June, 1868. 
Capture of Mesites Tardii on our north-eastern coast. — During the first week of 
;his month, Mr. Lawson and I went in search of wood-feeding beetles in Hayburn 
SVyke, six miles north of Scarborough. The first likely -looking tree we came to 
tvas an alder, which had been blown down, and partially lay across the " beck." 
We set to work, taking off the loose bark, and were astonished to find Mesites 
Tardii by hundreds. The beetle was also making large galleries in the solid wood, 
in which all stages of the insect occurred together. 
The next tree we tried was a dead ash ; and in it was the beetle, in equal 
ibundance, accompanied by Clerus formicarius. We next found it under loose bark 
of maple ; also under loose bark of oak ; also in the solid wood of the roots of the 
latter tree, which had been cut down about two years ; — so I presume no tree 
comes amiss to the beetle. In my experience of wood-feeders, I have never before 
met with any species so numerous. — T. Wilkinson, 6, Cliff Bridge TeiTace, Scar- 
borough, June 2Qth, 1868. 
[This is pleasant for the " Atlantic Fauna " theoiy. — E. C. R.] 
On the fecundity of the Queen-Bee. — At the meeting of the Entomological Society 
on the 4th of May, a paper ou the economy of the Hive-Bee, by Mr. Desborough, 
