44l 1^ Febniary, 



has not been obtainable, but we have now been able to give the result 

 of Dr. Chapman's examination of the genitalia of the otlier four, as 

 well as of weaverella and crocicapiteUa which are omitted from 

 Meyrick's work. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE IV. 



Fig. 1. Genitalia of Jlfojiopis/errufifineHa, Hb. c? ( ** 35). 



„ 2. „ „ „ imclla, (Hb. (? ( x 35). 



„ 3. „ „ „ crocicapiteUa, Clms. J ( x 35). 



„ 4. „ „ „ monachella, Hb. ^ ( x 35). 



Norden, Corfe Castle : 



Novcmhcr 5th, 1910. 



Cryptoliypnus sahulicola, Boh., in Cumberland. — It will be of interest to 

 record the capture of a specimen of this nncommon and local insect last June, 

 in tlie Eden valley, in flood refxise deposited on the extensive gravel bed, where 

 my friend,Mr. Britten discovered Thinobixis pallidus, Newb.. two or three years 

 ago. C. sahulicola hitherto has, I believe, only occvirred in the British Isles in 

 Scotland, where Dr. Shax'p and Mr. Lennon met with it in Dumfries-shire. I am 

 indebted to Mr. Newbery for naming the specimen, as not having the closely 

 allied C. pxdchellus, L., I was unable to satisfy myself as to which species to 

 refer my capture. — P. H. Day, 26, Curroch Terrace, Carlisle : January 8th, 1912. 



Blcdius arc7iarius, var. fcrgussoni, var. nov. — Mr. Fergusson has sent me for 

 identification some specimens of Blcdius which at first sight appeared to be the 

 recently described B. seccrnendus (Ent. Mo. Mag., Vol. xlvii, p. 269, printed by 

 mistake as seccrdendus) . They, however, prove to be a dark foi-m of B. arenarius, 

 easily distinguislied from the former species by the characters given in the above 

 note, the most obvious of which are the much finer central line of the thorax 

 and the less strongly punctured head. Some of Mr. Fergussou's specimens are 

 coloured just as in B. seccrnendus, others have the elytra almost entirely dark, 

 with only the extreme apex yellowish. They were taken at Knoweside, 

 Ayrshire, on the sandy banks of small streams on the shore, jiist above high 

 water mark, in company with the type form of B. arenarius and B. terebrans. 

 As it seems necessary to give this form a name, I propose to call it v. fcrgussoni. 

 — NoBMAN H. Jot, Bradfield, Berks January 1st, 1912. 



T^ote on Omalium (Phyllodrci^a) grandiloqua, Luze, a Scottish insect. — In the 

 " Verhandlimgen der k. k. zoologisch-botanische Gesellschaft in Wien," LX, 

 pp. 394, 395 (October, 1910), Herr O. Luze has described a new species of Phyllo- 

 drepa, from Scottish examples sent him by Mr. N. H. Joy, under the name of P. 

 grandiloqua. As no reference to this insect has hitherto appeared in our 

 literature (except in the Zoological Record for 1910), it is necessary to call 

 attention to Herr Liize's jjaper. The species is known to British Goleopterists 

 under the name Omalium brcvicorne, Er. — G. C. Champion^ Horsell, Woking : 

 January, 1912, 



