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places. The occurrence of the insect, therefore, in the locality above 

 given seems strange. In the last European Catalogue the genus is 

 placed between Coryphium and Olophritm.* 

 Lincoln : November 6ih, 1900. 



Pachyla sexmaculata, Linn., in Scotland : another record. — Mr. W. Evans, of 

 Edinburgh, has called my attention to a record of the capture of a specimen of this 

 species by himself at Loch Morlich, near Aviemore, in June, 1893 (Ann. Scott. Nat. 

 Hist., 1893, p. 249; 1900, p. 98). This will make the fourth recorded British 

 example. — G. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking : November 8th, 1900. 



Stray notes on a few Southport Coleoptera. — Pneudopsis sulcata, Newm. — This 

 species is apparently very generally distributed in the district, occurring in garden 

 refuse, &c. ; but, in my experience, it is never common. Only once have I taken 

 more than one or two at a time ; on that occasion I secured eleven examples by 

 searching a very large quantity of rotting haystack refuse. Owing to its habit of 

 coming to a standstill after a few steps, its dull surface renders it quite inconspicuous. 

 Trogophloeus tenellus, Erichs. — A single specimen was obtained from a heap of cut 

 Salix repens. Hydnohius punctatisaimu.i, Steph. — A very large <? specimen was 

 found during October on the sandhills. The margins of the elytra are furnished 

 with hairs, a characteristic that Canon Fowler assigns to H. Perriai, as distinguishing 

 the latter from H. punctatissimus. Antherophagus silaceus, Herbst. — A male was 

 taken just outside the town last year by roadside sweeping. Mantura chrysanthemi, 

 Koch, is apparently quite confined to the ditches skirting a road near Scarisbrick, 

 and only occurs along a stretch of some 100 yards. This year a single specimen 

 was taken that affords a good example of melanism ; the entire insect — antennee 

 and legs, as well as the body — being wholly black, the thorax having a slight bluish- 

 metallic reflection. Anthicus bimaculatus, III. — Of this rare species two specimens 

 were found under a dead dog on the Birkdale sandhills. Its re-discovery in the 

 original British locality is interesting.— Geoboe W. Chastbk, 42, Talbot Street, 

 Southport : November 2nd, 1900. 



Ceuthorrhynchidius mixtvs, 3Iuls. and Rey, in Britain : an additional record. — 

 On May 10th last, about 3 p.m., I swept a ? of this extremely rare species from 

 low herbs of various descriptions in the middle of tangled undergrowth in a damp 

 wood at Wherstead, Suffolk. The soil there is decidedly heavy, and the afternoon 

 was warm, vegetation being scarcely dried after preceding showers. Mr. Champion 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxi, 194, and xxxii, 31) gives us the distinctions between C. 

 nigroterminatus, WoU. (alone described by Cox), and the present species, from which 

 it is evident that the characters given by Fowler require slight modification. C. 

 mixtus, of which Bedel's description is, perhaps, the best, is scantily and evenly 

 covered on the upper surface with white scales, which are not thicker around the 

 scutellum ; thorax with obvious, though very obtuse and not prominent, lateral 

 tubercles ; legs black, tarsi ferruginous, with apical half of last joint black. 



* Fauvel(Faune Gallo-Rhenane, Staph., p. 100) says that it is found in dung and in rotten 

 vogetatiou, and also on flowers, on plains and on nioimtaius, from November to early spring. 

 Gauglbauer also records it from N. America. — G. C. C. 



