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Note on BlecUus sererdendus, Joy, Sfc. — Amongst the species mentioned by 

 M. Bondroit in his " Notes sur quelquos Staphylinidu; Palearctiqiies" [Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. Belg., LVI, pp. 450—452 (January 4th, 1913)], there are several of interest 

 to British Coleopterists. Bledius fiiscipes. Rye, is recordtnl from Holland; 

 B. occidentalis, Bondr., is stated to occur in Groat Britain — this insect is, I 

 believe, the insect known to us ixnder tlie name of B. crassicollis, Lacord. ; 

 B. secerdendus, Joy (1911), is said to be identical with B. suhniger, Schneid. 

 (1898), the type of which, from Borkum, has been examined by M. Bondroit ; 

 Lathrohium ripicola, Czwal., recently introduced into our list by Mr. Newbery, 

 is confirmed as British; L. letzneri, Gerh., is recorded from Great Britain, on the 

 authority of specimens in Mr. Donisthorpe's collection — this insect is presumably 

 one of the L. geminum, Gr.-group. — G. C. Champion : January Idth, 1913. 



Note on the life-history of Enicnuis fungicola, Thorns. — On April 25th this 

 year (1912), I found a number of Eainnus fungicola, Thoms. {vide Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., 19U7, p. 103), in powdery fungus on an old ash ti-ee at Nethy Bridge, 

 Invernesshire. These I placed in a glass tube, together with a small quantity 

 of the fungus, and on coming to examine them some days later, discovered that, 

 besides the beetles, there were, in the fungus, a number of minute eggs. I 

 replaced these in the tube amongst the fungus, and having laid it on my desk 

 did not pay any further attention to it for some time, until one day in May I 

 noticed that the tube contained a number of larvse instead of eggs. No 

 particular care was taken of these except to give them a little air now and 

 again, and to put a few drops of water into the fungus to try to keep it moist, 

 which, however, had rather a tendency to cake it aiid to cause mould. 



On going south about the middle of Jtme, I took the tube with me, and 

 althoixgh I regret I cannot state the exact period of pupation, the perfect beetles 

 emerged on the 22nd of June, and proved to be seven further examples of 

 Enicmus fungicola. So these beetles, originally from the Highlands, reached 

 the imago state in Hampshire after many journeyings, having completed their 

 entire metamorphosis in a small glass tube half full of the fung'us in whicli 

 they were discovered. — James E. Black, Nethercroft, Peebles, N.B. : Novem- 

 ber 29<?i, 1912. 



Re Pterostichus anthracinus — a helated correction. — In Fowler's "British 

 Coleoptera," Vol, I, p. 65, the remark occurs, concei-ning the species now in 

 question, " Dr. Shai-p took a variety witli the apices of the elytra simple." The 

 specimen alluded to bears in my collection the label " var. elytris apice simp." 

 In this individual it is true that the elytral apices are simple, but the statement 

 that it is a variety is a mistake ; the explanation, of course, being that the 

 specimen is a male, it being well known that in this species the male has 

 unarmed apices to the elytra, while the female has them spinose. I must 

 apologise to Canon Fowler for liaving misled him, but I think it is desirable 

 that the error should be corrected. So far as I know a variety of the kind this 

 was supposed to be does not occvu". — D. Sharp, Bi'ockenhurst : Dec. 28th, 1912. 



