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[Marrh, 



(n. o^en. Blepharoceridae) ciliahis, Mycetophila vectensis, Sciara gurnetensis, lacoei, 

 protoberidis. Tipula liniformis, Atarba vectensis, Bibiodites (n. gen. Bibionidae) 

 coJifluens, Psychoda primaeva, Protoberis (n. gen. St ratiomyidae) obliteratus, 

 Stratiomys brodiei, Ephydra oligocena, sepulta, Hippelates brodiei, Sphaerocera 

 sepultula, Stenomyites (n. gen. Ortalidae) fuscipeymis'j ; Odonata [Megalestes (?) 

 anglicus^. Mr. Cockerell's paper also contains notes on various forms previously 

 named by Giebel, Brodie, Westwood, and Handlirsch, and he gives figures of 

 some of them. —Eds. 



Philonthus varius v. nitidicollis Boisd., a distinct species. — The note on the 

 above supposed variety by Prof. T. Hudson Beare, in the January number of 

 this Magazine, p. 16, recalled to my mind that 

 I had proved this to be a distinct species. It 

 can be separated from P. varius Gyll., by the 

 following characters .- — 



I. Impressed line at base of 3rd and 4th 



dorsal segments distinctly angled in 



middle ; 1st joint of posterior tarsi 



not as long as the next three joints. 



...varius Gyll. 



II. Impressed line at base of 3rd and 4th 

 dorsal segments straight ; 1st joint of 

 posterior tarsi longer than next three. 

 ...nitidicollis Boisd. 



P. varius. I', nitidicollis. 



There are also slight differences in sculpture, the antennae are thinner 

 and slightly shorter in P. nitidicollis, and the aedeagus is not alike in the two 

 insects, as the accompanying figures of the amalgamated lateral lobes will show. 



In all probability the forms with red elytra will prove to be varieties of 

 one species, but as I have not seen either bimaculatus Grav., or shetlandicus 

 Poppius, it is impossible for me to clear up this point. — H. Bbitten, Myrtle 

 View, Windmill Road, Headington, Oxon : January 27th, 1916. 



Bembidium quinquestriatum Gyll., in the Edinburgh district. — As Prof. 

 Hudson Beare's interesting note in the January number testifies, this is 

 undoubtedly an uncommon beetle in the Edinbiirgh district. In the course of 

 the past twenty-seven years I have met with it, so far as my register shows, on 

 scarcely a dozen occasions. The records are as follows : — Comiston, December 

 6th, 1888, and July 16th, 1896 ; Lothianbiu-n, March, 1893 ; Colinton, October, 

 1893; Fairmilehead, in moss at foot of wall, February 27th, 1896; Falkland. 

 August, 1895; Aberdour, March 4th, 1896 (on wall), and March 16th, 1900; 

 Luffness Links, August 5th, 1896 ; Isle of May, July 14th and September 23rd, 

 1910. Unfortunately, the nature of the habitat has been noted in only two 

 instances. In Murray's " Coleoptera of Scotland" (1853) the localities given 



