1907.] 205 



ON A SPECIES OF SIMPLOCARIA APPARENTLY DISTINCT FROM 

 S. SEMISTlilATA, Fab. 



BY THE REV. n. S. GORHAM, P.Z.S. 



In my collection are two specimens of a Simplocnria whicb, while 

 they differ from S. semistriata, and are probably the insect referred 

 by vStephens (111. Brit. Ent., Mand. iii, p. 140) to the Byrrhus picipes 

 of Olivier, cannot I think be the B.picipes of Gryllenhall. He simply 

 copied the diatrnosis of the last-mentioned author, and evidently 

 noticed the discrepaiicy, for whereas Gryllenhall says B. picipes is 

 half as long again but not wider than B. semisfrinta (and Erichson, 

 under .S. mefallica, corroborates this characteristic), Stephens modifies 

 it in his description into " as long, but not so broad ;" and this is the 

 case in the insect to which I now call attention. 



The two specimens agree in being rather smaller than iS". semi- 

 sfriafn, darker in colour, and more particularly in having all the striae 

 deeper, and continued to, or near to, the apex of the elytra. Thomson 

 (Skand. Col., iv, p. 218), makes no remark on the greater length of 

 the insect ; but all these authors agree in describing S. mefallica 

 (which they consider as identical with the B. picipes of Olivier) as a 

 larger species than S. semistriata, whereas my two specimens are 

 smaller. At the same time they are, I think, to be referred to a dis- 

 tinct species. 



The conclusion I come to is, that there are two species of Simplo- 

 caria in England, but that the smaller and more deeply striate insect 

 cannot be identified with any described form, at any rate till the type 

 of Olivier's Bi/rrhus picipes has been compared with my specimens. 

 One of these was taken by me in tlie Forest of Wyre, in Shropshire; 

 I am not certain of the locality of the other. 



Highcroft, Malvern : 



Auffust nth, 1907. 



COLEOPTERA IN THE NEW FOREST IN JULY, 1907. 

 BY JAMES J. WALKER, M.A., R.N., F.L.S. 



Although July is usually regarded as by no means the best 

 month for beetles, in the New Forest at any rate, the results of my 

 last visit to Brockenhurst from the 3rd to the 24th compare so well 

 with those of two not unsuccessful expeditions made in 1905 and 

 1906 at an earlier penod in the year, that I am tempted to give a list 

 of the chief species of Coleoptera met with during these three weeks. 



