1912.] 151 



Desbi'ocliers (Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1874, p. cxcviii), is this species, 

 but the diagnosis has nothing characteristic. The species seems to be 

 very rare and little known. Bedel mentions a pair found in connection 

 with Erica cinerea on a very sandy place at Fontainebleau. Although 

 the name is a little doubtful, the species is certainly a valid one, and 

 we may register it at present as curvipes with a reserve of doubt as to 

 Thomson. The synonymy of the species of this genus is very uncertain. 

 In the European Catalogue (2nd Ed., 622), fulvicornis, Walton is 

 placed as a synonym of capitatus ; and mfipes Steph. is given as a dis- 

 tinct species. Yet rufipes Steph., and fulvicornis Walton, appear to 

 be really one and the same. As there appears to be much misunder- 

 standing as to 8. fulvicornis, I may here mention that it is a perfectly 

 good species, distinguished by possessing only very minute short setae, 

 which mostly arise from the punctures, not from the interstices between 

 the striae. I have recently taken here, on stunted oaks and birches, a very 

 fine series in perfect condition. No other species occurred with it except 

 the ubiquitous 8. coryli. Two species from Spain in Mr. Champion's 

 collection, both named curvipes for him by a continental authority, are 

 quite different from the Bournemouth insect. As 8. ciirvipes is from 

 Scandinavia, it is not very probable that the Spanish examples are 

 either of them correctly determined. 



Brockenhurst .- 



May 29»i, 1912. 



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COLEOPTERA IN DEVONSHIRE. 

 BY PHILIP DE LA GARDE, R.N., F.E.S. 



Despite the great scarcity of beetle life last year, in this County at 

 any rate, there are a good many fresh locality records which may be 

 worth noting as well as the few additions (marked with an asterisk) to 

 the County List which I can report. 



At Braunton during the first three months of the year : — *Oxypoda lentula 

 (one), Calodera riparia, *Bledius longulus (one), Oxytelus sculptus (one), and 

 Silpha tristis (one), on the Burrows ; one Haliplus heydeni in a marsh drain ; 

 several Atemeles emarginatus under stones on top of nests of Myrmica ruginodis ; 

 two Rhizophagus perforatus in elm sawdust ; Homalota silvicola, H. occulta, 

 H. villosula, Encephalus complicans, Agathidiuvi Imvigatum, Olihrus particeps, 

 *Longitarsus patruelis, and Ceuthorrhynchus euphorhiae (one) in moss, &c. 



