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spot, and was olad to iind the beetle on tlie selfsame 8!in(ll)aTik where I had 

 orisinallj^ turned it up in 1914. Unfortunately, an oncoming thunderstoim 

 allowed me but a bare ten minutes' collecting. In tliis time I took five speci- 

 mens and lost about as many more owing to the rapidity with which this 

 species burrows into the sand when alarmed. Cryptohypnus riparius F. and 



C. dermestoides var. A-ynttatus Lap. were plentiful at the same place : these 

 latter species I found among shingle and underneath stones, but C. suhnticola 

 occurred only on the sand under the shelter of the 1 aves of various plants. — 

 J. A. Dyson Perkins, Daveuham, Malvern : Decembe?- 1919. 



An Oriental Cucvjid-heefle in CfiesJiire. — In sorting over some bags of 

 material from a bone-crtisliing works at Acton Bridge, Cheshire, I came across 

 an unfamiliar little elongated red beetle some time ago which I was quite 

 unable to place. Mr, Arrow has now b^en kind enough to identify it as an 

 Oriental species of the Cucujidae — Lacinotinefus rhizopltayoides Walker. The 

 type-specimen, which is in the Brit. Mus., came from Ceylon, and the collec- 

 tion also has examples from Formosa, Sumatra, Borneo, Timor, Celebes, 

 Ceram, Dunga in liritish ]"]ast Africa, and New Guinea. I fiumd only a single 

 living specimen amid the hordes of beetles which naturally frequent such a 

 savoury habitat. The raw material for crushing comes almost exclusively 

 from local slaughter-houses in sacks, and is usually dumped for two or three 

 months before going through the mill. I was surprised at the small number 

 of species of beetles : Ptinus tectiis and Dermesfes were far the commonest, 

 I), vidpinus being present in countless myriads, and very careful examination 

 resulted in the discovery of D. f}-iscki at the rate of perhaps one-half per cent.; 



D. lardnrius and D. murinus occurred sparingly. It was at this same bone- 

 works thiit Somofiichus (Lehia) elevatus turned up a few years ago*, but as 

 my visit was paid in late autumn I failed to tind it. — J. K. le B. Tomlin, 

 Lakefoot, 120 Hamilton Boad, Reading: Deceiuber 21d, 1919. 



PolydrususJlampesDe G. in Cumberhmd. — This beetle appears to be known 

 in Britain mainly as a southern species, the most northerly locality given fur it 

 being Langworth Wood, Lincoln (Fowler, Col. Brit. Isles, vol. v, p. 201). 

 From its close resemblance to the common and widtdy distributed I', pteryyv- 

 vialis Boh. it is quite likely that it maj' sometimes be passed over, this indeed 

 being m}' own experience in June last when meeting with a green Polydrosus 

 while beating round the edge of a wood in this district. The locality being one 

 in which pteryyoniulis had not before occurred to me I took two specimens 

 home, but it was ouly when about to add them to my series of that species 

 that I noticed their duller appearance, and a closer examination proved their 

 identity with specimens of Jlanipes fr^m the New Forest. This adds an 

 interesting species to the Cumberland list, which in consequence may 

 reasonably be expected to occur in other of the northern counties if Lanca- 

 shire, Yorkshire, and other Coleopterists will keep a critical eye on pteryyo- 

 malis when they meet with it in the iield. — F. H. Day, 26 Currock Terrace, 

 Carlisle : December ISt/i, 1919. 



* Cf. JSnt. Mo. Mag. lii, p. 203, 1916, 



