'■^^^ [November, 



[The two Cnral)idao mentioned by Mr. TT.arAvood must he f^radnally spread- 

 ing in our Southeru Counties and finding- their way in some mysterious 

 manner to tlie charred pine-woods. The Anc/wmenus disappeared for many 

 years from the Wokinp: district, but it again put in an appearance for a time 

 when the conditions were once more favourable. It is almost certain that 

 this will prove to be the case at Crowthorne, Berks. The AncJwmenus, unlike 

 the Pterostichns, is extremely active and readily takes to wing, and is usually 

 abundant where it occurs. Specimens of the latter are often broken or have 

 one or more of the elytral striae abnormally formed.— G. C. C] 



LeistMs montanus Steph. in An■an.—^When collecting with Master Ro"-er 

 Waterston during the month of August last at the moulh of a stream'at 

 Catacol in the Island of Arran, we were fortunate enough to discover a few 

 specimens of Leistns montanus. The beetles occurred under stones on a bank 

 of shingle, which was only a few feet above sea-level and about 30 yards from 

 high-tide mark— not a place wliere one would naturally expect to find this 

 beautiful mountain species. As the bank of shingle had obviously been formed 

 by repeated floods of the stream, I could only come to the conclusion that, at 

 some tune or other, the insects had been carried down from the mountains 

 whicli rise to a height of oyer 2000 feet in the area drained by the stream. 

 When in Arran again during the montli of September, I made a more thorough 

 investigation of the shingle banks at the month of the stream and for a short 

 distance up its course, and I then found that the beetle was present in small 

 numbers in most of the banks.- A. Fergusson, 22 Polwarth Gardens, Glasgow • 

 October llth, 1922. ^ 



[Mr. Fergusson (Scottish Naturalist, 1919, p. (U) has recorded OchtheUus 

 U^ohsi Muls. et r.ey froai the same locality. He tells me that Mr. Balfour 

 JJrowne has found it in several of the Western Islands, and that the insect 

 also occurs on the Ayrshire Coast. Specimens of this species were captured 

 by myself at Looe, S. Cornwall, in Sept. last.— G. C. C] 



The Generic Name Calycella Blair (ro/eo;;to-«). -My attention has been 

 drawn to the fact that the name Calycella, proposed by me for a genus of the 

 Coleopterous family Mordellidae {ante, p. 222), has already been used in 

 zoological nomenclature by Allnian for a genus of Hydrozoa Hydroidea (Ann 

 &_Mag. Nat. IL*t. (3) xiii, 1864, p. 376). In this case, however, it was a 

 misspelling (there is nothing to suggest an intentional correction !) of the 

 generic name Calicella used by Ilincks in 1861 for the same Ilydroid, and 

 the name does not appear in Scudder's " Nomenclator Zoologicus." and was 

 consequently overlooked by me. That I should have overlooked the name in 

 Its original form is a much more heinous offence on my part, for I need hardly 

 say that had I been aware of the existence of Calicella I would never have 

 perpetrated such an homophonous misdemeanour as Calycella. According to 

 the rules of nomenclature such a name, though greatly to be deprecated, does 

 not become absolutely invalid. We have, therefore, double grounds of objec- 

 tion to the name Calycella (mihi), and it appears to me best to propose the 

 alternative name Calycina for it, which will either sink at once into synonymy 

 or be available as the major name by those who are unable to accept the 

 validity of Its predecessor.-K. G. Blaib, British Museum (Natural History) • 

 October IGih, 1922. ^^ 



