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fication, stating that his insect was not micans, Klug, which is a 

 Rhadinocercea, but a species o£ Tomostethus which he proposed to call 

 hrachycera. 



The true micans, however, also occurs in this country. I found 

 it first in Mr. McLachlan's collection, mixed with Phymatoceros 

 aterrima, which in general appearance it much resembles. There 

 were specimens of both sexes taken long ago b}' Mr. McLachlan him- 

 self at Staines in June ; and I have since found a $ among my own 

 specimens of aterrima, which 1 took at Woking on April 30th, 1894. 

 I sent a pair of Mr. McLachlan's insects to Herr Konow for verifica- 

 tion, and he pronounces them to be the true micans, Klug. 



Micnns is the only British representative of Konow's genus Mhad- 

 inocercea, the distinguishing characters of which are given in No. 4 of 

 my "Help Notes," &c. (Ent. Mo. Mag., August, 1903). In general 

 facies, size and colour, that of the wings included, it resembles aterrima 

 very closely ; and the latter is, I think, the only one of our Blenno- 

 campids for which it is likely to be mistaken. But on close examina- 

 tion the two insects will be found to differ considerably in structure. 

 In micans the third antennal joint is fully as long as the fourth, in 

 aterrima it is decidedly shorter. The remarkable ciliation of the ^ 

 antennae in aterrima does not appear in micans. The " gena " or 

 space between the eye and mandible is much more developed in 

 micans, its breast is without " prsesterna discreta," its claws are not 

 bifid, and the dorsal surface of its abdomen appears quite smooth and 

 polished without the evident puncturation of the other species. 



King's original diagnosis is as follows : — 



" Antennis thorace sublongioribus, nigra, subnitida, alis nigricantibus unicolori- 

 bus, mandibulis apice ferrugineis, abdomine lateribus sericeomicante." 



This completely suits our insect, and so do his further remarks in the German 

 description as to the colour of its legs, wing-nervures, cenehri, &c. Naturally he 

 does not mention the small structural characters which make it, according to 

 Konow's classification, a Tlhadinocercea. 



Brunswick, Woking : 

 Afril, 1904. 



COLLECTING (CHIEFLY COLEOPTEEA) IN OLD HEDGES NEAR 

 FAVERSHAM, KENT. 



BY A. .T. CniTTT, M.A., F.E.S. 



On or about September 19th, 1902, 1 drove over in the afternoon from Hunting- 

 field to Charing Hill to look for beetles on the slope to which Mr. Jennings, in Ent. 

 Mo. Mag , 1902, p. 179, refers, and after an unsuccessful search at the spot where 

 the beetles recorded by him were taken, I proceeded lo walk home through the 



