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out as a pallid or immature example of tlie iusect uauied by ine C. cisteloides, 

 so far as can be ascertained without an examination of the genital armature. 

 The posterior femora are unarmed and rather stout, the posterior trochanters 

 are armed with a sharp, curved spine, and the ventral segments 2-5 have each 

 a small shallow depression in the middle ; the species, therefore, belongs to 

 Bectiou 2 of my table. Dr. Jeanuel does not tell us much about his " vrai 

 C. anc/ustata F.," but as he compares it with my C. sturmi, it presumably has 

 toothed posterior femora; the aedeagus is described hy him as having a small 

 quadrangular plate at the tip, while that of C. sturmi Bris. (cf. Bull. Soc. Ent. 

 Fr. 1922, p. 27) has the apex broad, brusquely retracted into a narrow, feebly 

 bilobed, quadrilateral plate. Accepting his synonymy as correct, except as 

 regards the Fabrician insect, the names of the five British species noticed by 

 me in 1918 will stand thus :— 



Section 1. 



1. faijjiiezi S&&\\n&\ (Jan. 1922). Type, La Grotte de Lheim. 



anyiistata Britten (nee Fabr.). 



2. jeanneli, n. n. Type, Britain. 



sturmi Britten (nee Brisout). 

 Section 2. 



3. (jlauca Britten. Type, Britain. 



4. ungustata Fabr. Type, " Auglia.'' 



cisteloides Britten (nee Frolich, 1799). 



pyrenaica Jeannel (Jan. 1922). Type, La Boude, France. 



5. oldniH/a Lati'eiUe (1807). Type, Southern Fiance. 



intermedia Kraatz, Britten. 

 — H. Britten, Manchester Museum, Victoria University, Manchester: April, 

 1922. 



Coleoptera in Worcestershire iii 1921. — The following species of Coleoptera 

 have been taken in this district by Mr. Perrius or myself during the last 

 seasons; — Dryocoetes alni, found in profusion by Mr. Perrins in an alder grove 

 near Kidderminster; in a plantation of about an acre scarcely a tree was to 

 be found which was not or had not been attacked. Saprinus virescens, in plenty 

 with Fhaedon tumidulus, about 30 specimens were taken from the one locality; 

 two or three specimens of a blue variety were found. Lema melanopa, attacking 

 oats and doing considerable damage to tiie leaves of the plant. Cryptocephahis 

 sexjninctatus, discovered by Mr. Perrins on aspen, on which tree I afterwards 

 took a series ; the insects cling firmlj to the top of the tree, and could be 

 obtained by bending down the main stem and picking them off by hand ; a 

 strong wind which was blowing may account for the departure from the usual 

 habits of the species. Haplocnemus impresses, one specimen taken by sweeping 

 under old oaks. Zeiiyophora Jlavicollis, on aspen in September. Acidota 

 crenata, by sweeping under old trees. Scolytus pruni, in old apple-trees, 

 making its gallery in June. Ptinus sexpunctatus, Corynetes coeruleus, and Trox 

 scaler were all fairly common on the walls of my house at night during June. 

 Opilo mollis, about a dozen specimens taken from an old oak, also at night, 

 apparently preying on Xestobium tessellatum. — G. H. Ashe, Hartlebury, 

 Kidderminster, Ajjril 6th, 1922. 



