.1922.] 53 



I swept up a yellow-leg'g-erl Meligethes in a Fen near Watevbeach, Cambridge- 

 shire, which proved to be this species. 



Corticaria eppelsheimi Reitt. On October 7th this beetle occurred in 

 some numbers, both in tlie "packing" oi afuliyinosus nest situated in a bircli- 

 tree near Wolfing and under bark of an oak tree near by. I am indebted 

 to Mr. Champion for the identification of the insect. It will be remembered 

 it was first added to the British list [Ent. Mo. Mag. xliv, p. 127 (1908)] on 

 s])ociiuens taken by him at Woking and in the New Forest. As lar as I am 

 aware, no other collector has recorded this species from Britain. 



Laemophloeus bimaculatus Pk. On June 21st and July 1st L. bimaciilatus 

 was present in numbers under bark of a dead hornbeam and some dead beeches 

 in Richmond Park. The drought had no doubt killed these tine trees, which 

 were situated in a grove in one part of the Park : in the autumn they were cut 

 down and removed. Richmond Park is a very old record given by Fowler 

 for this beetle. Although I have collected there regularly for many years 

 past I never found it there before. 



Henoticus californicus Mann. I reared a series of this beetle from larvae 

 which were feeding on the mould on parchment covers of jam-jars from a 

 Loudon jam factory, given to me in 1920. The perfect insects hatched out 

 from February 2nd to 27th, 1921. On putting them aAvay in my cabinet I 

 perceived that they were identical with a beetle which had been named for 

 me Henoticus serratus Gyll., and which I had captured on a window in 

 Newbury Station on August 2ord, 1906. Moreover, Mr. Black kindly lent 

 me a specimen of the true H. serratus, which species he had recently 

 captured in Scotland, and I found my specimen did not agree with it. Mr. 

 S. A. Blenkarn first recorded II. californicus Mann. {=gerv amicus Reitt.) in 

 Britain from a London warehouse in 1912 [Ent. Mo. Mag. xlviii, p. 263, 286 

 (1912)]; it will thus be seen that my capture has six years' priority. The 

 correction in the synonymy has recently been made by Mr. Champion [op. cit. 

 Ivii, p. 12 (1921)]. 



Trogodenna k/iapra Arrow. Towards the end of last year a sample of 

 malt was sent to me from a brewery at Salisbury, which contained a number 

 of dead specimens of this beetle and very many living larvae of the same. 

 Some of the malt I placed in a small plaster-of-Paris cell, and the rest in a 

 large glass-topped box. The larvae do not seem to have eaten any of the 

 orain since I had them, though some holes have been eaten in the plaster, and 

 are now all huddled together in corners of the boxes, evidently hibernating. 

 I believe most of the iJermestidae hibernate in the larval stage ; I have now, 

 in my study, living larvae of Trinodes hirtus, Tiresias serra, Anthremis 

 {ckn-iger?}, and the Trogodenna, none of which are eating, but are in good 

 condition, though quiescent. T. khapra is becoming a most serious pest in 

 this country, the insect having increased and spread to an alarming extent: 

 Salisbury is quite a new area for it. An interesting paper on .the beetle may 

 be found in the "Brewer's Gazette " (July 7th-August 4th, 1921), written and 

 illustrated by Mr. James Scott, The author is not an entomologist, and some 

 amusing remarks occur— "Mr. G. J. Arrow, Entomologist to the British 

 Museum, who eventually identified them as Trogoderma khapra. In con- 

 sequence, his own name was bracketed behind that of the insects ! " etc. — 

 otherwise the paper is accurate and instructive, and explains the origin and 



