54 r March, 



A FURTHER NOTE ON THE COLEOPTKRA OF THE SCILLY ISLES. 

 BY NORMAN H. JOT, M.R.C.S., F.E.S. 



As already mentioned in Ent. Mo. Mag. {anted, p. 2), I examined 

 during last year three bagtuls of birds' nests, &e., from the Scilly 

 Isles, and found in these 110 species of Goleoptera. including 47 new 

 to the islands. Since then I have received a large sackful of haystack 

 refuse from St. Agnes, which had a great number of small beetles in 

 it, nine species being additions to the list. These bring the number 

 of beetles recorded from the Scilly Isles to the total of 331. The 

 first small bag was sent to me in June. It contained dry earth, the 

 contents of the '' nests " of six puffins from Annet. The only living 

 beetle found was one Trox scaher, L., and there were the remains of 

 three other species. On October I2th there arrived a small sackful 

 of cormorants' and gulls' nests from the same island. These nests 

 were constructed chiefly of thrift, dried grass and roots, but there 

 were many pieces of egg-shell and the remains of dead birds, even the 

 whole leg of a young gull. As might be expected, Gholeoa watsoni, 

 Spence, and Omosita colon, L., were very common, but 27 other 

 species occurred. The most interesting of which were several Sunius 

 lyonessius, Joy, and Scydmcenus harnevillei, Reitt., the latter being new 

 to Britain. 



Sunius lyonessius I now regard as a good species, not an insular 

 sub-species of S. angustatus, Pk., as it was described (Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., vol. xlix, p. 177), and certainly not a '' variety " of that species, 

 as it is entered in the index of that volume. Mr. Donisthorpe, 

 moreover, has taken two specimens of it in the Isle of Weight 

 which exactly match my own examples in structure. These have 

 the elytra entirely dirty testaceous, as also have nearly all the 

 specimens I have received lately from Scilly. It is hardly necessary 

 to add that I have carefully compared my insect with S. neglectus, 

 Mark., the only species on the Continent closely allied to *S'. angus- 

 tatus. 



Scydmcenus harnevillei was kindly identified for me by Herr E. 

 Reitter, but he regarded it as synonymous with S. poweri, Fowler, 

 but this is certainly not the case, as I have compared it with the 

 co-types of the latter in the Power collection. S. barnevillei only 

 resembles S. poioeri in being pitchy-black, and in having the anterior 

 femora of the male evidently thickened, not angularly dilated as in 

 S. pusilhos. It differs from S. poweri in being rather smaller, and in 

 having the thorax more transverse, and the elytra narrower. The 



