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laterals , and where tho Doctor’s quick eye and acquaintance with their “ casts” imd 
brought Bledius unicornis to light. We soon got it in abundance, proving this 
species not to be confined to tho western part of our shores. I had before taken it 
at Dawlish, where, years ago, Mr. Parfitt discovered it, but I did not then know the 
little “ casts ” of sand rejected from their burrows. 
In another locality, two miles from here, Bledius tricornis was in profusion. 
Tho first two or three specimens I found, appear to me to be spectabilis, and I am 
now disposed to doubt the specific value of these two forms. The horn in the males 
of both this and unicornis certainly varies in development, and the infuscation of 
the elytra is not a sufficient character in itself to warrant their separation. 
Here we searched for Dyschirius extensus, Putzeys, but in vain ; two or three 
hours’ work only yielded three _D. nitidus, which fell to my share. However, a week 
after, I had the good fortune, in company with the Rev. H. Gore, to secure eight of 
this rarity, and Mr. Gore got one more. Our thanks are due to Mr. Brewer, who 
indicated to us the locality, where he found it twelve years ago. 
Having thus got my “eye in” for Bledii, numerous casts in my drive and 
garden footpaths were explored, and turned out to be those of B. opacus ; while I 
may mention that while at Dieppe, not long since, B. longulus was not uncommon 
in a sandy part of the cliff. 
Other species found at Shoreham were Bogonus littoralis, abundant ; Limnceum , 
Heterocerus femoralis and sericans, PMlonthus corvinus. 
I have a specimen of J). extensus, taken at Lancing, in 1871, but which, owing 
to its small size, I had not recognised before. 
I lately found in Mr. Gore’s collection several specimens of Cryptocephalus 
frontalis, Marsh., Gyll. ; he had found them at Rusper, in the precise spot where I 
obtained one when I was in charge of his parish in 1873. This has always been a 
rarity with me. This is the season for Lycoperdina : it is rather common here in 
puff-balls. — H. S. Gorham, Shipley, Horsham : November Vlth, 1880. 
Sitones ononidis in Suffolk. — On the 29th of September, when sweeping in a 
rough field in the grounds of Tendring Hall, Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, I took 
about twenty-five specimens of Sitones ononidis. It was not until I had returned 
home and showed the insect to Dr. Power that I knew what it was. Had I been 
able to identify it on the spot I could probably have taken more. I have no recol- 
lection of seeing any Ononis in the field , the plant that was most abundant was the 
common field-thistle. As this is a new locality for this scarce species, it may be 
worth recording. — Arthur Cottam, Eldercroft, Watford : November 2nd, 1880. 
Capture of a rare Hymenopterous insect near Lyme. — On the 3rd of September 
last, I captured a ? of L Hdineis lunicornis, one of the rarest of our fossorial 
Hymenoptera, on the top of the Golden Cap Beacon, four miles east of Lyme Regis. 
I happened to sit down close to it as it was scrambling through the short stunted 
herbage near the edge of the cliffs. — F. S. Saunders, Wray House, Lingfield Road, 
Wimbledon : November 15th, 1880. 
Oligoneuria rhenana. — On the 25th of August last, I happened to bo at Basle 
with an afternoon and evening to spare. A thunderstorm at 1 p.m. was succeeded 
by beautiful weather, clear, and with scarcely a breath of wind. So I proceeded to 
a locality on the right bank of the Rhine, some three miles below the city, where a 
