1916.] 203 



0. porcatus is most nearly allied to 0. sepfentrioiiis Herbst, but 

 differs from it in its smaller size, totally different pubescence, shorter 

 form, broader bead and elytra, and in the presence of the marked 

 ridges on the latter. 



I took fourteen specimens of this species at Balrath, Co. Meath. 

 One on the hall steps on June 2nd, 1916, and the rest out of moss on 

 the bog, about two miles from the house, on June 10th. 



Stierlin records it from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Tirol, 

 Carniola, and Central and Northern France. The insect is chiefly 

 found in hilly or mountainous districts, under moss. 



Oxford and Cambridge Club, S.W. : 

 July 20th, 1916. 



Occurrence of Somotrichus {Lebia) elevatus F., in Cheshire. — A few days ago 

 my friend Mr. J. Collins brought me to name a rather striking-looking little 

 Carabid, which he had received from a correspondent in Cheshire. This I 

 found to agree in every respect with specimens in the Oxford University 

 Museum labelled " Coptodera " elevata Fab. The captor of this interesting 

 insect, Mr. Bernard R. Lucas, of Northwich, has since kindly furnished the 

 following information : " These beetles come from the bone works at Acton 

 Bridge, and must have been established there for many years. They were 

 found under an old staging near a crushing mill ; the bones, rat dung, bits of 

 skin, etc., were all brown with age ; the bones had lost all value for fat and 

 glue exhaustion, and according to the manager had not been moved for years. 

 Lebia elevata, of which I saw six specimens and caught foxu", was very active 

 and hard to catch, it probably got off the shovel as we took the stuff out. 

 June 28th was the date of my last visit." Specimens of Bendrophilus piinctatus 

 Hbst., and Carcinops H-striata Steph., both highly characteristic of the special 

 situation in which the Somotrichus was found, were also sent with it. 



S. elevatus is a decidedly pretty little beetle, smaller than any of our 

 species of Lebia and of shorter and more convex build, and of a rather bright 

 testaceous-red colour with a common cruciform dark fuscous fascia on the 

 elytra. The locality "Paris "in the original description (Fab., Ent. Syst., I, 

 p. 162) has been shown by Brulle (Rev. Ent., II, p. 108) to be erroneous, the 

 specimens on which the species was founded coming from the " lie de France " 

 (Maiiritius). It appears to have become widely dispersed by commerce like 

 Plochionus, Laeniostenus, and a few other Carabidae. In the latest European 

 catalogue it is noted (as an introduction) from Marseilles and Rouen, also from 

 South France ; and the three specimens in the Museum here are all from the 

 first-mentioned locality.' It is even not an entire sti-anger to our own lists, 

 being included by Crotch in the " Accidentally introduced species " in the 



