150 [July, 



specially Dunkirk and Calais as localities. It should, therefore, be 

 looked for on the sandhills of our southern coasts. Its nearest ally 

 on our list is Qeotomus punctulatus, Costa, from which it is generically 

 distinct by the spinose margin of the head, and the much greater 

 convexity of the body ; in this latter respect it more closely resembles 

 the species of Gnathoconus, but the very densely spinose legs of 

 j^tlius, a]id the long hairs along the margins of the thorax and elytra, 

 will distinguish it at once. The following is a short diagnosis of 

 the species : — 



J^^THUS PLAYicoRNis, Fab., Ent. Syst., iv, p. 124, No. 170. 

 Dark piceous-brown, shining, short, subelliptic, convex ; margins clothed with 

 a series of long reddish hairs, abdomen beneath also with scattered long hairs ; 

 margins of the head reddish, set with short brown spines ; antennte sometimes pale, 

 but in this example dark brown like the head ; pronotum largely punctured at the 

 base, scutellum dark brown, its apex paler, largely and somewhat remotely punc- 

 tured ; elytra, especially the clavus, generally rather paler than the scutellum, 

 largely punctured ; membrane brownish-white ; tibiee Tcry densely spinose ; tarsi 

 pale testaceous. Ijong., 3| mm. 



This species varies very much in colour, and, according to Puton, 

 in puncturation. 



St. Ann's Woking : 



June 8th, 1899. 



COLEOPTERA OF THE SCILLY ISLANDS: A SUPPLEMENTARY 



NOTE. 



BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S, 



In the Ent. Mo. iVEag. for October, 1897 (pp. 217—219), I gave a 

 preliminary list of the Coleoptera of the Scilly Islands, chiefly based 

 upon my own captures there in July of that year. I have recently 

 come across a paper on the same subject by the late Frederick Holme, 

 published in vol. ii of the "Transactions of the Entomological Society 

 of London" (pp. 58 — 64), containing a list of species found there 

 in July and August, 1836. 



Mr. Holme's paper is interesting from the fact of its containing 

 the original description of Cqfius {Remus) sericeus,S;n insect I did not 

 meet with in the Islands. Amongst the species enumerated by him, 

 the following are additions to my list, omitting those of which the 

 determination is certainly incorrect. 



These additions (36) bring the total up to 162 species, as against 

 the 126 recorded by me. 



