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have never met with C. 6-pitstulatus, except under bark or those found on 

 dead crows, and never near the actvial feeding places. Furthermore, the beetles 

 that I have found among the pheasant food have been the ordinary species one 

 expects among haystack rubbish ; not a single foreigner has been found. 

 Lsemophlceus ferrugincus, a species occurring with C 6-pustulatus in the Edling- 

 ton locality, also has been found at Askern, in fungus on birch, along with 

 Homalium putictipenne, and several species of Cis and Bhizophagus. Near the 

 place where it was taken was a pheasant feeding ground, where among the 

 barley straw were Philonthus fimetarius, Typhxa fumata, &c., but not a sign of 

 C. 6-pustulatus or any other doubtfully native species. I have also found 

 L. ferrugineus swarming in a malt kiln in Doncaster, but here, although it was 

 associated Avith insects of such dotxbtfid claims to be called indigenous as 

 8. surinameyisis, Niptus crenatus, Tribolium ferrugineum, and T. confusum, no 

 species of the genus Carpophilus Avas seen. In short, were it not for the dis- 

 covery of C. nhsoletus at EdlingtoUj I should feel satisfied that C. 6-pustulatus 

 Avas either a true native or a well established denizen. This belief has been 

 Aveakened but not destroyed. There are niunerous cases of closely allied species 

 associating together, not only among the Coleoptera, but among quite different 

 groups of animals. It is quite possible that the attractive "something," 

 probably some particiilar qiiality of food, in the form of either subcortical larvas 

 or fungi, that brings C. 6-pustulatus together under the bark of felled trees, may 

 be equally attractive to closely allied species ; and if by remote chance an 

 example of C. obsolctus did get into Edlington Wood it is not siu-prising that it 

 foregathered Avith its relatives. 



In reference to the specimens of C. 6-pustulatus that were beaten ovit of 

 dead croAvs in Wheatley Wood, I think the probability is that they Avere 

 hibernating in the birds and not feeding upon them. I have often beaten out 

 of carrion, in Avinter, species that are not really carrion beetles, e.g., Pterostichus 

 versicolor, &c.* — H. H. Corbett, 9, Priory Place, Doncaster: May 12th, 1912. 



A note on Anaspis ruficollis, Brit. Colls. — Capt. Deville pointed out to me 

 long ago that the Anaspis with a red thorax, which stands under the name of 

 A. ruficollis, F., in our collections, is wrongly named. It should be A. regimharti, 

 Schilsky. The latter species is distinguished by having the pubescence at the 

 sides of the elytra yellow, long, and conspicu.ous, whex-eas around the suture and 

 at the apex it is black, short, and hardly visible. This arrangement of the 

 pubescence makes the elytra appear fulvous, with a triangular black patch in 

 the centre, the apex of the triangle being at the scutellum. I have two speci- 

 mens of this species, taken at Bradfield, Berks, which have the thorax very dark 

 pitchy, and the legs pitchy-red Avith the tarsi black, for Avhich I propose the 

 name var. fraudulenta. — Norman H. Joy, Bradfield, Berks: April 13th, 1912. 



Microglossa marginalis v. obscura, var. nov. — Microglossa margirialis, Gyll., 

 generally has the elytra more brightly colotu-ed than in other members of the 



* Since writing tlie above I have taken several specimens of C. ()-pustv.lalvx under beech 

 bark at Sandal Beat. With them were Lltanjus bqnistvMtus, S'dvnnu,^ unuhiitatun, a.nA Epuraa 

 obsolcta.—a. H. C. „ 



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