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by Dr. Sharp. The variety is named after Baron Hopffgarten who look it in 

 Tliuriiigia. In these the outer rim is described by Schilsijy ds being so indistinct that 

 the whole insect appears entirely black, while tlie absence of the band on the elytra 

 renders the insect scarcely distinguishable from the black varieties of granu- 

 laris, L. In colour the British insects would therefore seem intermediate between 

 the type and the var. hopffgarteni. Dr. Sharp informs nie that he actually 

 possesses specimens from I'huringia agreeing exactly with those taken by me. 



So much for colour : turning to punctuation, in the c? , the punctuation of the 

 forms is in my opinion indentical. I have examined them under a I" objective 

 ( X 55) and both are equally alutaeeous. In the $ this is not the case, the typical 

 form is duller and the punctuation and the alutaeeous surface is much finer, and 

 may be termed obsolescent, while in the English form it is hardly distinguishable 

 from that of the ^ , and the pubescence in the typical form seems so me finer than 

 it is in the English specimens. In this connection it must be borne in mind that 

 some of thf' $ V of this genus are dimorphic. 



The male characters as described by Mr. Newbery (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1903, p. 223) 

 seem to me identical. Under these circumstances the British insects, though widely 

 differing from the type, do not appear to me to be worthy of a new varietal, much 

 less of a new specific name. I think it probable, however, that they ought really to 

 be placed under the variety hopffgarteni, Schilsky, inasmuch as if this variety were 

 a distinct species, it is to hopffgarteni, Schilsky, rather than to bilineatus, Sturm, 

 that I should refer the British insect. It is much to be hoped that the insect will 

 be again turned up at Deal. It should be looked for early in the year about Easter, 

 and if not found near the 2nd Battery, a search in the ditches more in the neighbour- 

 hood of Sandwich might be tried. — Arthur J. Chittt, 27, Hereford Square, S.W. : 

 January \dth, 1905. 



Casual Capture^ of Coleoplera in 1904. — The following records of species of 

 Coleoptera met with by me at various times and places during the past year, may 

 be of interest to readers of this Magazine : — Nothing of any note turned up until 

 April, when a pond at Oxshott produced Bidensus geminus, P., Agabus unguicularis, 

 Th., and Philgdrus minutu-i, F., in numbers, and also a couple of Ilyhius xnescens, 

 Th. In the same month, at Enfield, a single specimen of Quedius ventralis, Ahr., 

 occurred, and from under the bark of a holly Opilo mollis, L., was taken, only, how- 

 ever, to be lost a little later whilst bottling something else. 



Three visits to Richmond Park during May, in quest of Anobiuni denticolle,Vz., 

 proved successful on each occasion, sixteen specimens in all falling victims to my 

 bottle ; the finest example occurred under oak bark, which I removed from a large 

 excrescence upon the trunk. Xestolium iessellatum F., was dug out of a decaying 

 beech, and Megatoma undata, L., was taken at rest on a portion of the Park 

 fencing, whilst Aphodius scybalarius, F., and Aleochara cuniculorum, Kr., occurred 

 in the entrances to rabbit burrows. 



At Woolwich, in the middle of May, I was surprised to accidentally discover a 

 very strong colony of Helops cwruleus, L., under the bark of a portion of an old 

 apple tree which was lying on a piece of garden ground near the middle of the town. 



An unsuccessful visit to Suffolk in search of Anchomenus gracilipes, Duft., 

 yielded two additions to Mr. Morley's List of the Coleoptera of the county, viz., 



