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variety of this species, one of several found by himself and Mr. Donisthorpe, on 

 birch, at Battle, Sussex, in August, 1895. This insect is entirely black above, with 

 the sides and under surface bluish-violaceous. It is the C. barbare(B of Stephens, 

 and possibly the var. c of C. flavilahris, Gyllenhai (Fauna Suecica, iii, p. 623) — 

 " supra niger, subtus nigro-cseruleus ;" C. flavilabris, Gyll. (nee Fabr.), is, however, 

 treated by Weise as synonymons with C. ccerulescens. Sahib., which has not been 

 recorded from Britain. The present insect has the seriate punctures on the elytra 

 very coarse and transverse in shape, making the interstices appear transversely 

 wrinkled. The trochanters are testaceous. Gyllenhai queries his var. c of C. 

 flavilabris as being the C. barbarem of Linnaeus and Marsham ; but, according to 

 recent writers, C. barbarew, L., is a black variety of C. lO^maculatus, L. (= 10- 

 punctatus, L.). Mr. Bennett informs me that he has taken the ordinary form of 

 C. parvulus, Mxill., in the same wood, bat not in company with the black variety. 

 Stephens, misled by the name, gives "barberry" as the food-plant. — G. C. Champion, 

 Horsell, Woking : March I2th, 1897. 



Coleoptera in Richmond Park, cfc. — I met with the following CoJeoptera in 

 Richmond Park in June last : — Epipeda plana, BoUtochara bella and B. lucida, 

 Mycetoporus lucidus, HomaJlum oxyacanthce, Lathrimceuin atrocephaluin. From a 

 rotten beech stump I obtained Euplectus nanus and E. signatus, Liodes humeralis 

 and L. orbicularis, and from old trees in difPerent parts of the Park, Anobiuni 

 denticolle (2), Anitys rubens (dead specimens only), Dorcatoma chrysomelina, Aspi- 

 diphorus orbiculatus, Mycetophagus piceus and M. quadripustulatus, and a single 

 specimen of the very rare Scraptia fuscula. At Claygate I found Megatoma undata 

 on an old willow, and at Leith Hill, Elater balteatus, Ceuthorrhynchus alliarice and 

 CcBtiopsis Waltoni. — W. H. Bennett, Hastings : March, 1897. 



Neoclytus caprea. Say, and N. erythrocephalus, F., two North American 

 Longicorns bred in this country. — While cutting up last January an especially fine 

 ash trunk for the use of the wheelwrights employed by Messrs. Bass and Co., the 

 workmen found numerous larvae and some fully grown specimens of Neoclytus 

 caprea, Say, together with a pair of N. erythrocephalus, F. I made particular 

 enquiries, and found that, without doubt, the tree had grown at Carrick-on-Suir. 

 How this Irish tree became infested with these two species of North American 

 Longicornia I am unable to say, but both larvae and beetles were lively enough 

 ■when brought to me. I have to thank Mr. Champion for their identification. — 

 Philip B. Mason, Trent House, Burton-on-Trent : March 9th, 1897. 



The sale of the SalU collections at Paris on February 2bth to 27th, 1897.— The 

 late M. Salle was always specially interested in the Coleoptera from different parts 

 of America, and hia boxes comprised several separate collections, viz., (1) from 

 North America, (2) Central America, (3) the Antilles, (4) Venezuela, (5) other parts 

 of South America. The North American collection was relatively the most im- 

 portant : the CicindelidcB and Elateridae became the property of M. Fleutiaus ; the 

 StaphylinidoB, Glavicorns, Lucanidce and Coprophaga passed into various hands; the 

 other Families were bought by M. R. Oberthiir. The original collection from 

 Central America was acquired long since by Messrs. Godman and Salvin for the 

 "Biologia," but M. Salle had replaced it by means of duplicates and new acquisi- 



