1900.] 203 



perhaps, more the facies, in the field, o£ Badister peltatus than of an 

 Anchomenus, from all our other species of which it may be at once 

 distinguished by the four exceedingly deep foveae on the third inter- 

 stice of each elytron. It is of a brassy colour above, and rather dull. 

 The thorax has two long, erect setfe arising from each lateral margin, 

 and there are two similar setae arising from the inner margin of the 

 eyes. The hind angles of the thorax are obtuse and considerably 

 raised. The legs are very slender. A. quadripunctatus appears to be 

 widely distributed in Northern Europe, occurring in N.E. Germany, 

 8nxony, Westphalia, the Rhine Provinces, Austria. Sweden, Russia, &c., 

 but 1 can find no record of it from France or Switzerland. There 

 are several nearly allied American forms, one of which I have taken 

 at a high elevation in Guatemala. 



Horsell, Woking : 



August \3th, 1900. 



EE-OCCURRENCE OF EERIADES TRUNCORUM, L., IN ENGLAND. 

 BY THE EEV. F. D. MORICE, M.A., E.E.S. 



There has been, so far as I know, no fresh record of Heriades 

 truncorum, Linn., as a British species, since Smith wrote of it in 1846, 

 in the Zoologist, iv, p. 1448, as follows : — 



" This species has hitherto been rare in cabinets ; there is a speci- 

 men of each sex in the Kirbyan cabinet taken by Mr. Trimmer near 

 Hammersmith, where I have myself frequently searched for it, but 

 without success ; it no doubt, like its congener, nidificates in decaying 

 posts and rails, and, therefore, whole colonies will be destroyed 

 occasionally when such are replaced by sound timber. I detected 

 three specimens of the female amongst a mass of unarranged bees in 

 the possession of Mr. Ingall, and one I obtained from a collector, cap- 

 tured in Hainault Forest ; I have not met with the species myself." 



According to Kirby's Monographia, the real locality from which 

 his specimens came was Brentford, and so Smith gives it in his Cat. 

 Brit. Hym., 1st edition, 1855, and 2nd edition, 1875. He makes no 

 mention in the Catalogue of his Hainault Forest specimen, so that I 

 suppose he must have come to feel doubts as to its identification or 

 authenticity. Of Mr. Ingall's specimens he says in 1855, that the 

 captor had forgotten where he took them, but in 1876, that they came 

 from Dulwich — a discrepancy which, as Mr. Saunders has pointed out 

 (Hym. Acul., p. 311), throws some doubt on the latter locality. IVo 



