10 [January, 



Note on two introduced s2)ecies of Lathridiidfe. — Two introduced Lathridiids 

 have recently come under my notice : (1) Adistemia watsoni, Well. : several 

 living- examples of this species were found in the Geological Department of the 

 British Museum in 1907. The insect is probably of American origin, though 

 originally described from Madeira ; the other recorded localities for it are 

 North America, Mexico City, Chile, Portugal, and France. An excellent figure 

 of A. watsoni is given by Dr. Sharp in the Biol. Centr. Am., Coleopt. ii, pt. 1, 

 t. 19, fig. 5. The genus Adistemia is closely related to Cartodere, and the single 

 species belonging to it is of peculiar shape, the head and prothorax being small 

 and naiTOw, and the elytra very elongate. (2) The second species is doubtless 

 a form of Cartodere elongata, Curt., with the second and third elytral interstices 

 flattened — the first (sutui-al) and fovirththus appearing more raised than usual. 

 Amongst a very large number of specimens of C. elongata taken by myself at 

 Ashstead and Woking, from under oak bark or from amongst freshly cut oak 

 chips, there are none quite like the variety mentioned. This latter was recently 

 taken in some niunbers by Dr. Chapman in his house at Reigate, in sawdust, 

 amongst which some larvaj from the south of France (Amelie-les-Bains) had 

 been placed with their food-plant (Goriaria) for piipation. — G. C. Champion, 

 Horsell, Woking: December, 1911. 



Oxypoda soror, Th., and other beetles in Cumberland. — Towards the end of 

 June last, I spent a day on Saddleback, a mountain I had long planned to visit, 

 and had the good fortune to take three specimens of the rare 0. soror, Th.,* 

 crawling about among the short grass on the svmimit. This is the first record 

 of the species for the county, and, perhaps, for the North of England, as beyond 

 Fowler's Scotch records and the Forest of Dean, I cannot call to mind its cap- 

 tvu-e elsewhere, excejit on Snowdon (Ent. Record, 1906, p. 242). On the same 

 occasion Anthophagus alpinus, Pk., was not imcommon, also Geodromicus globidi- 

 collis, Mann., both new to me, although not to the county. Some small pools 

 Avere tenanted by Agabics congener, Pk., Hydroporus morio, Dej., and other sub- 

 alpine species, and very sparingly by H. melanarius, Sturm, a species I have 

 long searched for. Mr. G. B. Routledge found a specimen on HaytonMoss some 

 years ago, and I know of no other covmty record. Few other species of interest 

 turned vxp this season, bvit I may mention a fine pair of Clytus arcuatus, L., 

 concei'ning whose nationality I am net quite sure, as Ifoiindthem in the timber 

 yard here, where both Eui-opean and British woods are stored. In flood refuse 

 Cryptohypnus quadripustulatus, ¥.,* occux'red, also C. maritimus, Cvirt., and 

 lately I picked vip a specimen of Silpha sinuata, F.,* on a road. I find among 

 my 1910 captures several which have not yet been recorded from Cumberland, 

 viz. : — Dyschirius thoracicus, Rossi,* among the Seascale sand-hills ; Falagria 

 thoracica, Curt.,* common at roots of various plants, Seascale ; Xenusa sulcata, 

 Kies.,* two specimens in seaweed, Seascale ; Autalia puncticollis,* Shp., by 

 sweeping long grass iinder trees, Matterdale ; A7ithobium ophthalmicum, Pk.,* 

 Matterdale ; Homalota crassicornis, Gyll.,* in fungi. Gelt Woods ; H. macrocera, 

 Th., in dimg, Wreay ; Corticaria fidva. Com.,* in hay barn. Great Salkeld ; 

 Epursea imm^mda, Er.* (as determined by Dr. Joy), one in carrion near Carlisle ; 

 Bruchus pisi, L.,* in a mill in Carlisle; Batophila rubi, Pk.,* by sweeping in 



