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THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
Gnorimus nobilis L. in Epping Forest.—A specimen cf this rare beetle
was found by Mr. F. T. Vallins resting on a beech-trunk near the Loughton
Camp on June 13th, 1926. An example, now in the Stratford Museum, was
recorded from Lord's Bushes in July, 1881, by the late Mr. W. Cole (Journ. of
Proc, Essex Field Club, ii., p. lviii.) and Mr. Vallins' specimen will be
placed with it in the collection. Canon Fowler, in his monograph, The
Coleoptera of the British Islands, remarks of the species and of its sister-
species, "They appear to have become exceedingly scarce of late years;
it is quite possible they may occur again, but at present they seem to be
becoming extinct in Britain." Editor.
Some less usual Bird Records from the Lea Valley Reservoirs in 1925.
Grey Wagtail (Motacilla c. cinerea). One, March 7th; several, probably
a migratory movement, Oct. 3rd; one, Oct. 10th.
Wheatear (Oenanthe O. oenanthe). One, May 2nd; three, Aug. 15th.
Little Owl (Athene noctua mira). Heard, Oct. 24th.
Wigeon (Anas penelope). Twenty, March 7th; eleven, Sept. 12th.
Pintail (Anas acuta). One, Sept. 12th; one, Dec. 5th. The Septem-
ber bird was either a female, or a male in eclipse. The December bird
was a handsone male.
Shoveler (Spatula clypeata). Two, Sept. 12th.
Scaup (Nyroca m. marila). A male, May 16th and Aug. 15th.
Goosander (Mergus m. merganser). A female or immature male,
Dec. 5th.
Smew (Mergus albellus). One adult male and three brown-headed
birds, Jan. 3rd and 25th; one adult male and four brown-headed birds,
Feb. 28th.
Cormorant (Phalacrocorax c. carbo). An immature bird, Oct. 3rd,
10th and 24th.
Turtle Dove (Streptopelia t. turtur). One, Sept. 12th.
Dunlin (Calidris a. alpina). Seven, Aug. 29th.
Greenshank (Tringa nebularia). One, seen and heard, Aug. 29th.
Jack Snipe (Lymnocryptes minimus). One, Dec. 5th.
Common Gull (Larus c. canus). One, Dec. 5th.
William E. Glegg.
Coleoptera in Hainault Forest.—Mr. Horace Donisthorpe (in the
Entom. Mthly. Mag. for February, 1926) records the following beetles
which he found in or on hornbeam trees in Hainault Forest in July,
1925:—Clytus arietis L., Leptura scutellata F., Strangalia armata Hbst.,
Rhagium bifasciatum F., and Phloeotrya rufipes Gyll.; these were dug
out of the trees, either alive or dead. Under hornbeam bark he found
Rhinosimus viridipennis Steph., R. planirostris F., Laemophloeus ferru-
gineus Steph., and Phloeopora reptans Grav. Tetratoma ancora F. and
Cis nitidus Hbst. occurred in some abundance in a fungus on a hornbeam,
and Ptilinus pectinicornis L. in and on bare trees of hornbeam. Sweeping
long grass under trees yielded Microglossa suturalis Sahlb., Oxypoda
umbrata Gyll., Ocyusa incrassata Muls., Atheta cadaverina Bris., Stenus
fuscicornis Er., Meligethes lumbaris Stm., M. picipes Stm., Corticaria
elongata Gyll., and Malthodes nigellus Kies. Byturus sambuci Scop.
occurred plentifully on wild raspberry bushes.