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" Coleoptera Illustrata," Vol. I, No. 1 : by Howard Notman : H. Notman, 136, 

 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. — Part I of this new work contains 50 plates, 

 illustratinf4' various Pahoarctic species of the genera Carahua, Calosoma, Callis- 

 thenes, Damaster, Procerus, and Procrustes. The plates each contain one enlarged 

 drawing-, of uniform size, showing the insect in its natiiral attitude. The text 

 is restricted to a list of the species or varieties figured, their respective localities 

 being given on the plates themselves. The price of this new ventm-e is §1 per 

 part, which works out at about Id. per plate. — Eds. 



PhilontMis variits r. slietlandicus Poppius, and Philontlms varius v. nitidi- 

 collis Boisd.- — Attention was drawn to var. shetlandicus by Mr. Fergusson, in a 

 note he contributed to the Jvine, 1913, issue of this Magazine (Vol. 24, second 

 series, p. 136) ; it is qiiite distinct from the other named varieties, the elytra 

 being entirely dark red in colour. I spent a few days on the Mainland of 

 Orkney in September, 1910, and recently, on looking over my captures, I found 

 I took one specimen of the var. in moss. I have one specimen of var. nitidicollis 

 Boisd., found at the roots of grass at Southsea. As this variety is recognised 

 as distinct from v. hvmaculatus Grav., in the latest European Catalogue, and by 

 such authorities as Reitter (Faima Germanica, Vol. 2, p. 128), and Ganglbauer 

 (Die Kiifer von Mitteleuropa, Vol. 2, p. 448), it should, I think, be given a jilace 

 in the British List. — T. Hudson Beare, 10, Regent Terrace, Edinluirgh : 

 December. 1915. 



Bembidium qninquestriatum Gyll., near Edinburgh. — On February 20th last 

 I was having a walk in the late afternoon in the Mid-Caldcr district, about ten 

 miles from Edinburgh, when I noticed that on my left hand the road was 

 bounded by a sandstone wall, very similar in appearance to a wall at West 

 Derby, Liverpool, from which I secured this species (under moss growing on 

 the wall). I broke off some of the moss on the Mid-Calder wall and shook it 

 over paper, and out tumbled a specimen of the desired insect ; half-an-hov\r's 

 work secured a nice series. This insect is so very local and peculiar in its 

 habits that I thought it desirable to put this capture on record ; since I came 

 to Edinburgh in 1901 I have repeatedly searched for it, but in vain, until this 

 occasion. — T. Hudson Beare : December, 1915. 



Granary beetles at Cothill, Berks. — In an old water-mill at Cothill, near 

 Abingdon, Berks., to which I have access, some sacks of damaged maize were 

 recently found to be swarming with Calandva oryzae, as well as with other 

 Coleoptera usually found in company with this destructive weevil. These 

 included our two species of Palor^^s — ratzeburgi Wiss., and subdepressus Woll.* — 

 in equally large numbers; Teiiebroides mauritanicus, Laemophloeus ferrugineus, 

 Tribolium ferrugineum, Silva^ius s^irinamensis* and Alphitobius dia.perinus,* all 

 plentiful except the two last mentioned. Laemophloeus pusillus Sch.,* easily 

 picked out from among the swarms of L. ferrugineus by its shorter foi-m and 

 the very long antennae in the J , was also fairly common on my first examina- 

 tion, but on a second visit by Mr. Tomlin and myself we could only meet with 



* Xot included in the " Victoria County History " list of Berkshire Coleoptera. 



