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Uarpalus anxius from the Oxford District. — Mr. Claude Morley, in his inter- 

 esting note, "A quarter of an hour on the Breck " (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1900, p. 288), 

 speaks of Harpalus anxius as never taken inland in Britain except at Lakenheath 

 Warren, Suffolk. It is, therefore, worth while to place on record the fact that this 

 species is abundant on a sandy common near Oxford. In the same place also occur 

 Crypticus quisquilius and Cteniopus sulphureux, both generally looked upon as ex- 

 clusively coast species. Microzonm tibiale, and the genus Calathus, usually es- 

 pecially abundant on the coast, are also very plentiful in the same locality. — W. 

 Holland, Hope Department, University Museum, Oxford : December 4th, 1900. 



Lathridius Bergrothi, Reitt.,and other beetles in a herbarium. — I have received 

 from Prof. Carr, M.A., a number of small beetles taken from a dried specimen of 

 Burdock {Arctium) in the herbarium of the University College, Nottingham. They 

 consisted largely of Corticaria fulva. Com., a few Cartodere filum, Aube, with 

 Enicmus minutu.i and half a dozen examples of a pretty Lathridius, which Mr. 

 Champion kindly informs me is L. Bergrothi, Reitt. I have learnt that the speei- 

 men of Arctium was of English origin, but no doubt the beetle is an introduced 

 species, derived from some of the dried foreign plants in the same herbarium. -- 

 Alfred Thornlet, South Leverton Vicarage, Lincoln : December 5(h, 1900. 



[Father M. J. Belon, of Lyons, who has been kind enough to examine one of 

 Mr. Thornley's specimens of L. Bergrothi, tells me that it has been found at St. 

 Petersburg and various other places in Russia, and also in Finland, Denmark, Germany 

 (Dresden and Hamburg), Austria, Silesia, and France (Dept. of Calvados). The insect 

 was not described till 1880, and it seems probable that it is gradually spreading on 

 the continent, after the manner of Coninomus nodifer (Westw.), as has been rioted 

 by Ganglbauer. It is recorded (Rev. d'Ent., xvi, p. 174) as having been found in 

 mould and in faggots. In general appearance L. Bergrothi is not unlike Enicmus 

 tran.<: versus (Oliv.), from which it differs in its larger size, and in the sharply 

 carinate alternate interstices of the disc of the elytra (there are three prominent 

 carinse on each elytron, and the suture also is raised), the margins of the latter being 

 also conspicuously explanate towards the base. — G. C. C.J. 



Larinus scolymi, Oliv., at Colchester. — Amongst a number of Coleoptera sent 

 me for names by Mr. Harwood, of Colchester, there is a specimen of this conspicuous 

 South-European species. The insect must, of course, have been imported in some 

 way to the locality where it was found, possibly with plants of Cynara svolymus or 

 C. cardunculus, which are much cultivated in gardens. Mr. Harwood's account of 

 its capture is as follows : " I had been collecting Aculeate Hymenoptera near the 

 railway at Colchester one afternoon in June last, and as it came over dull I gathered 

 a handful of the flowers of Knautia arvensis and took them home in my net, which 

 I hung up on the umbrella-stand on arrival. Next morning, when going out again, 

 I took down the net and found the Larinus crawling on it! As I could not make 

 the insect out, I went off again to examine the scabious flowers carefully, and to 

 sweep the embankment, but found no more of the beetle. There is a junction for 

 Clacton and Walton at the place mentioned, and it was on the southern slope of the 

 branch line embankment where I gathered the flowers to take home." L. scolymi 



