8 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



Mr. Champion has again clone good work in clearing up several 

 doubtful points in our lists ; in the Ent. Mo. Ma;/, (vol. xxxvii., p. 

 255) he points out that the insects which have done duty in our 

 catalogue as Mdaiuln/a canaliculata, Fabr., are really M. harhata, Fabr. 

 Records of the capture of this rarity are given by him, and others are 

 added in the Eut. Record (vol. xiii., p. 377). 



In the June number of the Ent. Mo. Mcuj. (vol. xxxvii., p. lU), 

 Mr. Champion has a valuable note on various species of Bruchm found 

 in Britain. As a result, B. li(tricontis, 111., disappears from our list, 

 being merely the male of B. rufijn's, Herbst, and B. viciae, Oliv., also 

 disappears, the few supposed representatives of it in our collections 

 being in reality B. fahrael, Clyll., a variety only of B. atomarius, L., a 

 fairly common British insect ; the introduced B. jiectinicornis, L., also 

 proves to be another species, namely, incarnatm, Boh., but the true 

 Jiectinicornis has recently been taken by M. E. A. Waterhouse at 

 Putney, it is, however, most probably also an introduced insect. By 

 this note Mr. Champion has completely cleared aAvay difficulties which 

 had been often a stumbling block to many collectors. 



In the Ent. Mo. Man. (vol. xxxvii., p. 91) and in the Ent. Eecord 

 (vol. xiii., p. 337) are articles by Mr. Champion and Mr. Donisthorpe, 

 dealing with the British species of Eiinnius, a plate being given in the 

 Record to make clear the points in dispute. I must say that at present 

 the whole matter is left in a thoroughly unsatisfactory state, and it 

 must remain so, until some careful worker takes up this question and 

 both by field work and by thorough microscopical examination of 

 numerous specimens, settles the point as to which species of this genus 

 really are found in this country. Perhaps Mr. Edwards, who is 

 responsible for the plate, will devote himself to the problem. 



The year has been, if not productive of new species, prolific in the 

 way in which rarities have turned up, in many cases quite commonly. 

 I may mention C'enthor/njnclridius nii.rtus, Muls., at Porlock, Odontaeiis 

 niohilicornifi, F., at Woking and Tuubridge Wells, Mcdon castaneus, 

 Gr., at Eichmond, Tarmtenus univittatus, Rossi, at Harwich, Lytta 

 resicatoria, L., in Cambridgeshire, Antlta.ria nitidida, L., A(/ribis 

 sinnatns, 01., A. riridis, L., I'latijdeiua violacenni, F., ] elleix.s dilatatiis, 

 F., in the New Forest, and Chnjwiiuia cercalis, L., on Snowdon, a 

 rather remarkable list for one year, due perhaps to the exceptionally 

 hot and prolonged summer of 1901. 



The reproach so often made against British coleopterists that they 

 give themselves up entirely to collecting and to synonymical work, 

 can hardly be sustained this year, as we have had quite a crop of 

 valuable papers, dealing with life-histories and other problems of 

 beetle-life. In the Ent. Mo. Ma//, there have been notes (p. 15) 

 on a Braconid parasite of Anobium domesticnin, Fourc, by the Rev. 

 W. F. Johnson, a matter of importance from an economical point 

 of view, considering the serious destruction wrought by this beetle 

 in valuable old furniture ; on the habits of Oroc/iares amjuMatiis, 

 Er., by Mr. Champion (p. 48) ; on Enceji/uiliis cdinjdicans, Westw., by 

 Mr. C. Morley (p. 151), with his observations on the way the abdomen 

 is carried by various species of Braclwli/tra ; on the pairing of 

 Laiiijii/ris nortilnca, L., also by Mr. ]\Iorley (p. 226), an interesting 

 account of a number of experiments he was able to make on this point, 

 and lastly tAvo notes (pp. 256, 280), on the fact that Attclabu^ 



