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Cryptophagus foivlcri, Joy, from France. — Captain Deville has sent me 

 a Crytophagus which he suggested might be C. fowlcri. This it nndoubtedly 

 is. It was taken in the Forest of Haute Seve, near Fougeres, on a felled oak. — 

 Norman H. Jot, Bradfield, Berks : November 10th, 1910. 



Cryptophagus fowleri, Joy, at Oxford. — On i-eading Dr. Joy's paper on 

 Cryptophagus fowleri, p. 205, Ent. Mo. Mag., it occurred to me that I had 

 sevei'al specimens of an unnamed Cryptophagus that might possibly be the new 

 species. Having tried them with the description of C. fowleri and in com- 

 parison with the allied forms, I thought they agreed so well with Mr. Joy's 

 new species that I would ask him to examine them for me This he very 

 kindly did, and returned them all (4 specimens) as his C. fowleri. Of these I 

 got one in dry touch-wood in a dead elm at Water Eaton, Oxon, l.xi.09; one in 

 wood refuse under a dead hedge at Enslow Bridge, Oxon, 4.vi.l0 ; one from 

 Weston-on-the-Green, 24.iv.10; and a specimen from Wytham, Berks, ll.x.08 ; 

 the last two were probably swept. From the occurrence of C. fowleri in four 

 different localities, miles apart, in tlie Oxford district, it is apparently fairly 

 widely distributed. — J. Collins, Oxford University Museum : Nov. \Sth, 1910. 



Note on the Meloid-gcnus Hornia, Riley, and its allies. — My friend, Manuel 

 Martinez de la Escalera, during a visit to Horsell last week, showed me two living 

 examples of a remarkable Sitarid he had just bred from pupaj found in the 

 cells of an Anthophora in walls at Mogador, Morocco. This insect has recently 

 been described by him as a new genus and species under the name Allendesa- 

 lazaria nymphoides (Boletin Soc. Espaii. Hist. Nat., 1910, pp. 379 — 382), but he 

 was apparently unawai'e of the fact that there were two extremely closely allied 

 known American forms. One of these latter, Hornia minutipennis, Eiley, from 

 Missouri, has simple tarsal claws, the other, Leonid Hleyi, Duges, from Mexico, 

 has the tarsal claws armed with a veiy long tooth, and both insects also attack 

 Anthophora. Allendesalazaria has the tarsal claws formed as in Hornia, and 

 there can be little doubt that these two genera must he. very closely related.* 

 The American insects have been very fully described and figvired, and their 

 habits noted in detail by Eiley f and Duges + respectively. Duges placed them 

 under a separate section (Horniides) of the Meloida^, mainly on account 

 of their minute elytra, and this arrangement was adopted by me when dealing 

 with the Mexican forms (Biol. Centr.-Am., Coleopt., iv, 2, p. 370). The two 

 genera, however, are very nearly related to Sitaris, which also attacks Antho- 

 phora. The American and Moroccan insects are recorded as having been found 

 upon walls in the vicinity of the nests of these mason-bees, after the manner 



* Since tlii.s note has been in type M. Escalera writes me as follow.s : Allendesalazaria is valid, 

 and may be sejiarated from Hornia by the following characters : — 



Scutelhim eordiform ; wings one-fifth .shorter than the elytia ; antennse short (in the $ a 

 little longer than the head, in the <J as long as the head and thorax together), the third joint 

 longer than the others Hornia, Riley. 



Scutellum transverse ; wings wanting ; antennae longer (in the ? reaching the posterior 

 border of the prothorax, in the S extending considerably beyond it), the third joint not longer 

 than the others Allendesalazaria, Esc. 



t Trans. Acad. St. Louis, iii, pi. 564, t. 5, figs. 13, o— t?(lS77). 



} Insect Life, i, no. 7, pp. 211—213, figs. 47, &— /"(1889J. 



