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from agreeing together, so that there is no probability of their repre- 

 senting a distinct species, although the remark on inland specimens of 

 0. cordatus in Fowler's "British Coleoptera " (i, p. 45), might give 

 rise to the idea that inland specimens supposed to be cordatus are 

 really not so. And it may be here stated that cordatvs is not a mari- 

 time species on the Continent. One of Champion's Croydon examples 

 is very large and dark in colour with an ample prothorax, so that it 

 reminds one strongly of 0. rufiharhis. The Mickleham individual, on 

 the contrary, is small, has diminished punctuation and is somewhat 

 reminiscent of 0. rnpicoloides. Variation of this kind has given rise 

 to the idea that most of our British species are really only one, but my 

 study has convinced me that this is entirely erroneous. 



The name in the case of 0. cordatus is satisfactory. The species 

 was figured by Sturm (Deutsch. Ins. iv, tab. 94, fig. C) from a 

 specimen from the Duftschmidt collection, and Sturm's figure no 

 doubt represents the insect under consideration, though it has a 

 ridiculous blunder as regards the front margin of the thorax. 



Lawnside, Brockenhurst : 

 July 12th, 1912. 



{To be continued.) 



NOTE ON A PECULIAR FORM OF NOTIOPHILUS. 

 BY JAMES E. BLACK, F.E.S. 



Some years ago I took a NotiopJiilus at Peebles, Scotland, which 

 appeared to differ from any of our British species, especially by a 

 patch of testaceous- brown on the outer posterior side of each elytron. 

 This colovir-mark is entirely different, both in colour and position, from 

 the ordinary testaceous apex characteristic of some of our Notiophili. 



Unfortunately this example was lost, but in 1906 I took another, 

 also at Peebles, though in a different locality, which I believe to be the 

 same species. 



Mr. Donisthorpe then kindly compared the specimen with the 

 British and European Notiophili in the South Kensington collections, 

 but could not find any to agree with it. 



Herr Reitter, to whom I sent the specimen, has returned it as 

 bigeminus, Th. = pusillus, Wat., var. 



