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1897, xxxiii., pp. 185-136) not only is the colour of the thorax black 



in the Irish species and bhie in the English, but the English is shorter 

 and broader, and all the coleopterists to whom we have shown the two 

 forms quite agree with us, that they are distinct species. In our 

 opinion the English form is the true erich>i(>ni, Huti'r. The Kuglish 

 species is very rare, only three specimens being known. The siiocinum 

 which started the question was taken by us at Ry(d in 1S97. PlnilLmbrta 

 raiuf rolls. — This rare species was swept in the same field as the preceding, 

 only one specimen has been recorded before from Ireland (Armagh). 

 (Hinorliaia iiniliilata was beaten ott' birch, only one specimen has been 

 taken i)efore in Ireland (Kenmare). — Hor.vck St. J. K. Donisthorpe, 

 i'\Z.S., F.E.S., 58, Kensington Mansions, South Kensington. 



CoLEOPTERA IN ScoTLAND. — January and February this year were 

 marked by excessive and continued cold, so outdoor work was impos- 

 sible, and my first outing, after the flood workings in January, was a 

 Saturday afternoon, on the bleak exposed moor near Leadburn, on the 

 road to Peebles, about the middle of March. I took my water-net, 

 but the result was very poor. A(/abi(-s hijnistKlatiis, L., was common, 

 and single specimens of I h/ilraiKn-iis mclaiiariiis, Sturm., and ll.tristis, 

 Pk., turned up, but nothing else worth noticing. Out of haystack 

 refuse, Oxijpoila opaca, Clr., and TailiUins ((illarix, Gr., were sifted, and 

 from under bark of beech trees came Dromins (U/ilis, F., and f'/iyl/a- 

 treta amiulata, Kuts. During the early part of April I was too busy 

 with examination work to spare time for entomology, and the latter 

 part of the month was spent in England. Edinburgh, like the rest 

 of the kingdom, had a cold, wet, inclement May, and only once was I 

 able to get out. I went to Aberlady on the 2nd, there was hardly a 

 trace of the belated spring, so I found very few insects. On the sand- 

 hills, under stones, Harpalits ptincticollis, Pk., and Philont/inn rcnialis, 

 Gr., the latter a scarce insect at all times, put in an appearance, and 

 by fishing with the net in a shallow ditch overgrown with weeds, I 

 secured llhantm e.rolctiis, Forst., before a heavy hail and rain storm 

 forced me to make a hasty stampede for cover. A small stream enters 

 the Forth at this point, and by searching on the undersides of stones 

 taken out of it I found h'luiis aciwus, Miill., very commonly, with a 

 few specimens of K. cuprt'iis, jMiill., and floating in the stream I 

 picked up a single Fhi/llutifta twuiuniin, L. With June, more genial 

 weather conditions began to assert themselves, and, as a result, more 

 frequent excursions were made, and many good things began to 

 appear. On June 10th, near Polmont, Telrphorns obscurus, L., was 

 beaten fairly commonly out of hawthorn blossom, while from general 

 sweeping, in a piece of rough ground much overgrown with hawthorn 

 and bramble, the following were obtained : — L hyllobius oblowinx, L., 

 this insect occurred by hundreds in one very restricted spot (Canon 

 Fowler only gives Moray and Solway districts for it) ; P. ciridicollis, 

 ¥., off" nettles ; Hah/zia IS-'itittata, L., Dr. Sharp says this latter 

 insect is rare in Ihe Solway, Tweed and Forth districts, but 1 have 

 generally captured it wherever I have been if there were any fir trees ; 

 near Perth it is certainly common ; Aiiapliis /iluHtaris, iS'aez., off" 

 birch; Ordirstrs Jiijii, L., and ( 'iiitltDrhipichus ctintractiis, Marsh. 

 On Saturday, June llth, 1 made the first of several visits to one of 

 the most romantic and beautiful spots near Edinburgh, the lovely 

 glen of the North Esk, between llawthoniden and Koslin. Here 



