1900.] 65 



At Ehyl on the Denbighshire coast I was pleased to discover Kyperafanciculata 

 at the roots of :E'ro<£iMOT on the sandhills, and in the same place Psilothrix nobilis 

 ■was exceedingly abundant in the flowers of the sea pink.— W. E. Sharp, 13, 

 Broughton Road, Ealing, W. : February, 1900. 



The old British localities for Lihellula ftdva, 3IiiU.— The following may be of 

 interest at the present time. Moses Harris, " Exposition " (L. fugax) gives no 

 locality. Stephens, "Illustrations," 1836 (L. conspurcata, F.) says — "Found, 

 though not very commonly, in the marshes round Bermondsey and Deptford, in 

 June, but abundant in the neighbourhood of Norwich." Stephens described the 

 insect a second time under the erroneous name of bimaculata, Charp., and of it he 

 said—" Taken in the neighbourhood of Whittlesea Mere in June." Curtis, " British 

 Entomology," 1838 {conspurcata, F.), has—" Hedges, lanes, &c., from middle of May 

 to the middle of July, Parley, Glanvilles Wootton and Newnham, Bedfordshire, 

 Mr. Dale ; Sprowston near Norwich, and Deptford." Evans, " Brit. Libell.," 1845 

 {conspurcata, F.) says—" It is found during June round London, near Heme Bay 

 in Kent, and at other places." 



I think this insect was probably more common formerly tlian it is now. I have 

 in my British collection six individuals, viz., 4 <? (3 immature and 1 nearly mature) 

 and 2 $ , obtained more than 30 years ago at the sale of an old collection, of which 

 I unfortunately kept no particulars, but of the genuineness of which I have no doubt. 



Mr. Lucas, in his excellent new book, hardly does justice to the localities for 

 Dragon-flies given by Stephens and Curtis, and seems to have taken them somewhat 

 at second-hand. L.fulva is a case in point.— R. McLachian, Lewisham, London : 

 February, 1900. 



A Monograph of the Coleopterous Families Corylophid^ and Sph.e- 

 riidjj: by the late Rev. A. Matthews; edited by P. B. Mason: pp. 1—220, 

 with nine plates. London : O. E. Janson and Son, 1899. 



Coleopterists are much indebted to Mr. P. B. Mason for the trouble he has 

 taken in editing and causing to be published the late Rev. A. Matthews', MSS. 

 dealing with some very obscure and little-known forms of Micro-Coleoptera. The 

 work, as issued, forms a complete monograph of all the species of these very minute 

 insects known to the author, illustrated by numerous structural drawings of each 

 genus made by him in his usual masterly style. Four families altogether are noticed 

 in the work, the Pseudocorylophida and PhmnocephalidcB, each represented by a 

 single genus, being treated as distinct from the true Corylophidm. Of the latter, 

 twenty-one genera are enumerated, four of which, Meioderus, Meizoderus, Hophc- 

 nema, and Lewisium, are described as new. The SphferiidoB include a single genus 

 only, Sphcerius. Four of the genera of Corylophidce had been previously described, 

 and three of them figured, in the Biologia Centrali-Americana (Col. II.. pt. 1), the 

 structural details of these being fully illustrated for the first time in the present 

 work. Mr. Matthews' drawings have been successfully transferred to zinc by Mr. 

 J. Collin, of Newmarket, and occupy eight plates; the other plate (A), added 



