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Carpo2)hilus liyneus Murray in Britohi. — On several occasions recently 

 specimens of tliis beetle have been sent to the Natural History Museum for 

 determination. They come from different localities and in each case were 

 found in connection with merchandise, e.g. dried Californian plums (Liverpool 

 per H. Britten) ; dried apples (Penarth, Tomlin) ; jelly blocks (London); also 

 from Birmingham and the Isle of Wight. The species was described from 

 Mexico and later taken in some numbers by the collectors for the " Biologia 

 t'entrali-Americana," but dues not appear to have been hitherto noticed in 

 Europe as a pest to commerce. Its congener, C. hemipterus L., widely 

 known as the " Dried-fruit Beetle," is now of almost cosmopolitan distri- 

 bution as a pest of dried fruits and other provisions, and if the adoption 

 of similar habits by C. li(ineus is at all general its i-apid spread as a com- 

 mercial pest is to be anticipated. Of the species recorded by Fowler it is 

 most nearly related to C. se.rpustalutus F., the affinities of these species 

 being indicated by the following key : — 



1. Thorax strongly convex from side to side, its base as wide as that of elytra : 



elytra not as long as together broad. ... 2. 

 Thorax dorsally depressed with lateral margins notably explanate, base 

 narrower than that of elytra, the sides sinuate before the posterior angles ; 

 elytra longer than together broad 3. 



2. Thorax much narrowed at apex, elytra each with large pale spot at apex. 



.... hemijjtenis L. 

 Thorax scarcely narrower at apex than at base, elytra without apical ]iale 

 spot dimidiafits F. {niutilidus Er.). 



3. Base of thorax truncate, puncturation of upper side strong, form more 



elongate ; elytra distinctly longer than broad (7 : 6), each with 2 or 3 



indistinct pale spots scvpudulotus F. 



Base of thorax broadly rounded, sinuate in middle, puncturation fine ; 

 elytra scarcely longer- than together broad, without pale spots 



.... liyneus Murr. 

 — K. G. Blair, British Museum (Nat. Hist.) : February 2nd, 1922. 



Lissodema cursor Gyll., etc., at Box Hill. — I have pleasure in recording 

 the capture of a specimen of Lissodema cursor under bark on Ranmore Com- 

 mon, on August 1st last. Tlie season here has, in common with most places, 

 been very erratic, Cassida fastuosa occurred in its usual haunt fairly abundantly 

 in the spring and early summer, but species like Licinus depressus and Lehia 

 chlorocephala were almost, if not entirely (in the latter case), absent. Two 

 specimens each of Lebia cyanocephala and Bythinus glabratus resulted from 

 hours of hunting. — Stanley A. Blenkarn, Burford Lodge, Box Hill 

 Dorking : January 20^A, 1922. 



Deiopeia pulvhella L. at Southsea. — In the latter end of September I took 

 a specimen of Deiopeia pulchella J in a small field near the sea at Southsea, 

 Hants. As I gather from the works of reference which I have at hand that 

 the species is a rare immigrant, I thought that it might be worth recording. — 

 Norman L. Cole, Moncrieff, Cirencester, Glos, : February 10th, 1922. 



