90 [April, 



seventb, and eighth are covered with minute s]>inps on both surfaces; on the 

 ventral surface of the eighth tliere are several .slightly larger spines on eacli 

 side near the anterior margin, and in some specimens there is a complete 

 transverse band of them as shown in the figure. At the latero-posterior 

 margin of tlie eighth there is a rudimentary pleurite, a short and long bristle, 

 and above these a large stigma. Dorsum of the ninth segment with a narrow 

 indistinct transverse band and clothed with minute spines ; on the venter there 

 are five short and one longish hair on each side, spines absent. Genital plate 

 pear-shaped, with a longitudinal row of four minute hairs in the middle. 

 Gonopods each with three hairs at the apex and one near the middle of the 

 inner side. 



cJ, In this sex the apex of the abdomen differs in shape from that of the 

 female (compare figures 1 and 2), and the strong spines on the posterior 

 margins of the abdominal segments are entirely absent. In other details the 

 male, resembles tiie female, except in size. 



Measurements in miUimefrcs. 



Lemjth. Breadth. Lewjth. Breadth. 



Head -23 -1 -216 -9 



Thorax -Oo -116 ^ -03 '1 



Abdomen -SIG -283 -45 -2 



Total 1-096 mm. -Gl^G mm. 



Types in the Veterinary Research Laboratory, Onderstepoort, and a 

 co-type of the female will he deposited in the British Museum. 



January 2ith, 1920. 



Early appearance of Lucanus cervufi. — When going to the station at Box 

 Hill to-day I picked up a very large male Lucanus cervns walking across the 

 road. This is surelv an extraordinary date for tlie appearance of this beetle 

 in the open. — Stanley A. Ulknkaux, ISurford Lodge Cottage, "NVesthumble, 

 Dorking, Surrey : March llth, 1920. 



rolydrusus.flavipes De G. in Yorlshire. — Since reading Mr. F. H. Day's 

 note on this species in Cumberland (cinte, p. 4G), I have come across a doubtful 

 record for Yorkshire. In the "Entomological Magazine" for October, 1837, 

 pp. 1-21 (vol. r>), is an article by John Walton, entitled " Notes upon the 

 Genera Situna, Folydrusus, Fhyllobius, and Apion" He appends a list of 

 the species in these genera, marking with an asterisk those found b}- him in 

 Yorkshire; and a species so marked is Jiaripes Gyll., which, according to G. IJ. 

 Waterhouse (Cat. Brit. Cc;l. 1801, p. 70), is the same insect a^JIavipes De Geer. 

 It is, however, possible that Walton's insect was only pteryyo7nalis Boh. 

 {Jiavipes Marsh.), as he omits this latter insect from his list. The majority 

 of his Yorkshire beetles were taken near Knaresborough and Harrogate. — 

 Wm. Johx Foeuh.\m, Winter Street Hospital. Sheffield : March 8fh, 1920. 



