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type-species apiyroximahim, the ouly difference being in the darker 

 colour of the general pubescence of the body. It is a darker species 

 than quadrinotatum, the disc of the thorax being uniformly grey with 

 only one pair ot strong dorso-ceutral bristles near the grey scutellum. 



Newmarket : April, 1913. 



Note on Bembidium velox, Er. — This name stands in oiir catalogues as a 

 variety of B. lampros, Hbst. In addition to the characters hitherto mentioned 

 as distinctive, I find another one of some importance, namely that in velox the 

 wings are fully developed, but are aborted in lampros. The form may not 

 improbably prove distinct as a species. In the Beare-Donisthorpe catalogue, 

 celere, Er., is given as a var. of lampros, but it appeal's to be a mere synonym. 

 Reitter in " Fauna Grermanica " gives a var. cyaneotinctmn. This occurs here, 

 but is a variety of velox not of lampros. According to my experience, both 

 velox and cyaneoti7ictum are rare in Britain, but la^npros very common. — 

 D. Sharp, Brockenhiu-st : May oth, 1913. 



Note on Homalota crihriceps, Shp. — This insect, of which a single specimen 

 (?) is in the Power Collection, is the Ccenonica puncticollis of Kraatz, described 

 in " Linna?a Entomologica," 1857, from Ceylon, as found in the nests of Termites ; 

 it is also fovind in Grenada, West Indies. Kraatz gives the characters of the ^ , 

 but both he and Sharp have omitted to give those of the other sex in which 

 the last dorsal abdominal plate is furnished at the posterior margin with six 

 small teeth, two being close together to one another and also to the middle 

 line on either side, and a third more externally on either side. In the British 

 specimen this plate is much retracted and only the four central teeth can with 

 difficulty be detected, so that it is easy to see how they were ovei'looked. — 

 M. Cameron, 7, Blessington Eoad, Lee, S.E. : April 19th, 1913. 



Acalyptus rufipennis, Gxjll., in Oxfordshire. — On March 27th last, while 

 hunting for Coleoptera at that famous old locality the "peat-pits" at Weston- 

 on-the-Green, Oxon., I tiirned a small weevil out of damp vegetable refixse, and 

 bottled it as a Tychius; and it was not until its turn came to be set a few days 

 later, that it was recognised as a fine fresh specimen of the long-lost Acalyptus 

 rufipennis, Gyll. {carpini, Brit. Cat.). Natui-ally I wished to "follow up" this 

 lucky find, but the persistently bad weather of April was all against working 

 for the insect. I succeeded, however, in finding a few specimens imder the 

 same conditions and in the same spot as the first, in the moss and debris about 

 the roots of one small sallow-bush, from the catkins of which two or three more 

 examples were beaten. 



This pretty little weevil is apparently very local and rare with us, and has 

 not been taken for many years past. Its discovery in Britain is due to the late 

 Mr. Samuel Stevens, who met with it in some numbers on April 28th, 1851 

 (c/. Zoologist, 1851, p. 3186) by beating sallow catkins in a small wood near 



