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presented to the IJritisli Museum by Colonel Yerbiiry in 1904, but have not 

 been recorded. The latter has again been found by me this year. The occur- 

 rence of the black form of Cetonia aurata (var. nigra Gaut.) has already been 

 noted by me in this Magazine for September last. Anobium fulvicorne Sturm, 

 recorded by me from Scilly in Ent. Mo. Mag. 1912, p. 11, should be corrected 

 to A. domeiiticnm Fourcr. ; the species again has been captured bj' me this year. 

 For the ideiititications of the smaller species of Stnphi/Uuidae I am indebted to 

 Dr. Malcolm Cameron, K.N. — K. G. Elaih, Britisii Museum (Nat. Hist.), 

 S. Kensington, S. W. 7 : December Sth, 1919. 



Ilarpnlus ■i-pmictatus var. montivriffus Reitt. in Ireland. — On the return 

 journey from a collecting excursion to S.W. Ireland this year (1919), a short 

 stay in Dublin afforded me an opportunity of visiting the Sugar Loaf Monntaiu 

 in County Wicklow in search of Harpalus 4-pmictatus, and on July 2nd, in 

 Company with Mr. L. H, Bonaparte- Wyse, who had taken several examples 

 of it there in 1917, we were fortunate in securing a fairly good series including 

 about a dozeu specimens each of the var. montivapus, in which the leg.s are 

 black or dark piceous instead of red as in the typical form.* This colour differ- 

 ence is very conspicuous even in life, and gives the insect such a distinct aspect 

 when running amongst the roots of heather that at first sight it might be 

 easily mistaken for some other species. It was scai'oer than the type form, 

 and, with the exception of a swingle female, all the specimens I took are males. 

 Reitter originally described mnntiva(/ns, Verhandl. d. Naturforsch. \'er. in 

 Briinn, 38, 1899, p. 99 (1900), as a black-legged variety of ■i-pnnctatus and 

 retains it as such in his " Fauna Germanica," Kafer, i, 1908, p. 174 ; but in the 

 1906 edition of the European Catalogue it is given as a distinct species. 

 As far as I can learn it has not been found on the Scottish mountains, or in 

 any of the other localities in Britain where the type form has occurred, and it 

 is stated to be rare on the Continent. — O. IC. Janson, 95 Claremout Koad, 

 Highgate, N. 6 : December, 1919. 



Orochctres nngvstatus Er. in Scotland. — On November 18th, 1919, whilst 

 working flood-refuse on the banks of the River Tweed near Peebles, 1 was 

 fortunate enough to find one specimen of this rare species. So far as I know, 

 this is the first record of its capture in Scotland. Through the kindness of 

 Prof. T. Hudson Beare I have had the opportunity of comparing it with an 

 authentic Continental e.xample, with which it agrees in every detail, asAvell as 

 with the description given on p. 82 of vol. vi of Fowler's " Coleoptera of the 

 British Islands." — James E. Black, Nethercroft, Peebles : December 1919. 



Coleoptera in the O.vford district during 1919. — The past season here has 

 been on the whole a poor one for beetles, wintry conditions prevailing up to 

 May 1st, on which date snowballing was possible in Oxford ; and later on there 

 were not many days on wliich the sweeping-net could be used to advantage. 

 This was especially the case in the autumn, and the scarcity of the Aniaotomidae 

 and other beetles usually looked out for at that season was only too evident. 



* A <J of the red-legged form was captured by myself at the same locality in June 1878 (cf. Eat. 

 Mo. Mag. IV, p. 88, Sei)t. IsTS;.— O. C. C. 



