110 [October, 
Notes on Coleoptera at Southend and its neighbourhood. — Having been located 
here since the beginning of May, with leisure to resume my entomological pursuits, 
I have been able to investigate a httle the riches of this place as regards beetles. 
The following are among the most noteworthy I have observed, but I have captured 
many small species, undetermined at present, of which I hope to send a supplemental 
account. 
The sand-banks between this and Shoebury are the great feature here, and 
these have produced to me Falagria thoracica, Quedius humeralis, Sunius filiformis, 
S. intermedius, Xantholinus tricolor, Crypticus quisquilius (this species is very 
common here, and seems to delight chiefly in such parts of the sandhills as have 
moss growing in the sand, when, by parting the moss with the digger, they appear 
in little companies, instantly diving headlong again for shelter), Arithicus instahilis, 
Trachyphlceus scaier, scahriculus, and spinimanus, Omias Bohemanni, Otiorhynchus 
raucus, Orthochcetes setiger, Chrysomela, Banksii and la^nina, Cassida nohilis, Lasia 
glohosa (abundant), and Psammoechus hipunctatus. 
Damp places between the town and the Shoebury bank contain Stenus pici- 
ipennis and Mohjtes coronatus. 
My best captures, however, have been among the wood-feeders : in decayed 
oak I observed Helops cceruleus (the larva of which must be two years at least 
before maturing, as I saw it in all sizes, as well as the pei'fect beetle), Euglenes 
oculatus, and Dorcatoma flavicornis, chrysoynelina, and ruhens (the latter I only 
found dead, being too late for it ; in one tree, however, it must have abounded) ; 
I also took Par omalus flavicornis, Synibiotis latus, Quedius cruentus, Scolytus rugu- 
losus, and Hylastes cunicularius ; and, in dead broom, Phlceophthorus rhododactylus 
(common) and one Hylurgus pilosus ( ?) . In fungi there were to be had Oxyporus rufus, 
Pocadius ferrugineus, and Triphyllus suturalis. Casually I found in the road, near 
Benfleet, Panagceus 4-pustulatus, and, in a similar situation, near Eochford, Ta/phria 
nivalis was common one day, and nothing else to be seen. Harpalus rupicola 
is common at the west of Cliff Town, and Baridius lepidii, Cceliodes exiguus, Lisso- 
dema 4-guttata (common in dead sticks). Colon sp?, Syntoinium ceneum, and Thia- 
sophila angulata, occurred in chance places. 
Taking the hint given by Mr. Rye in a former No. of the Magazine, I visited 
some plants of Sisymbrium officinale, and soon had the pleasure of getting a good 
series of certain Ceuthorhynchi : — C. cyanipennis, chalybwus, quadridens, floralis, 
pyrrhorhynchus, and contractus, making quite a family party. Notes like his are 
much to be valued, affording as they do pleasure to read, and more practical results 
in the enrichment of collections. A Ceuthorhynchus, which Mr. Rye informs me 
is the C. vicinus of Brisout, hitherto considered by British entomologists as a small 
variety of C chrysanthemi, occurs on the sand rarely. — Henry S. Gorham, 10, 
Cambridge Terrace, Southend, August I7th, 1867. 
Notes on Coleoptera in Morayshire. — While spending a portion of June and 
July of the present year in Morayshire, I gladly availed myself of the opportunity 
of becoming acquainted with its Coleopterous inhabitants. As the soil in the 
neighbourhood of Forres, where I had my head quarters, is very different in its 
character from that of the district in which I usually reside, I anticipated the 
pleasure of falling in with a few desirable species. For several miles inland, 
