266 THE Entomologist's recorI). 



puhjijuni, lj.,Mantura rustica,!^., C'rijjituhi/pnusrijiariHs, F., Bracln/pteriis 

 piihescens, Er., previously only recorded rarely from Solway district, 

 with Meiii/ethes aeneus, F., and ]\[. viridescens, F., of course, in the 

 utmost profusion. Sweeping under the fir-trees secured Coccinella 

 liienM/li/jthica, L., Phi/tobitts 4:-ti(berculatus, F., Exomias araneiformis, 

 8chrk., Canon Fowler says this latter is doubtfully Scotch, and that 

 Dr. Sharp had never seen a specimen, but I have also seen this summer 

 specimens taken at Peebles, by Mr. Black, so the old record of Murray 

 is quite correct, and, lastly, an insect which I can only make to be 

 I >il/()cai'tcf; aiitoi/rcipluis, Ratz., which as far as I know has only been 

 taken previously at Scarborough, in 1869. At Musselburgh, on the 

 afternoon of the 21st, I obtained AiiisoUnna calcarata, Er., Majitiira 

 rn'<tira, L., and ( Hiorrhnnchns iiiHsc>irinii,'Biiii, by sweeping in an old sand 

 pit, and the same afternoon I swept L'hactocnema luirtensis, Fourc, in 

 some numbers in the Regent Terrace gardens behind my house. This 

 finished my collecting for June, except for the brief trip to Rannoch, 

 the results of which have been recorded {K)it. Mo. Mar/., vol. xxxviii., 

 p. 179). Several of the above insects have only been taken 

 previously in other districts in Scotland and are recorded as 

 uncommon, the above records are therefore new localities for them. — • 

 T. Hudson Beare, F.E.S., 10, Regent Terrace, Edinburgh. 



L^iOMOSTENUS COMPLANATUS, De.T., AT StROOD AND ChATHAM. Mr. 



Stanley Kemp records the occurrence of LaniKMcnns coiiiplanatiis, Dej., 

 an addition to the British fauna, from Dublin in June last (Knt. Mo. Ma;)., 

 vol. xxxviii., p. 216). This insect is superficially very like Pristoni/rJiiis 

 terricola, Herbst, but is smaller, has considerably shorter legs, and is, 

 moreover, winged, while P. tenicola is apterous, there is also a differ- 

 ence in the shape of the thorax, which is quite marked, as soon as 

 attention is drawn to it. On examining ray series of /'. terricola I 

 at once detected three specimens of L. coiiijilaiiatus mixed Avith them, 

 and a reference to my entomological diary showed that they were all 

 taken in the yard of a granary at Strood in 1901, under bricks. Mr. 

 Champion says {loc cit.) that he has two specimens taken by Mr. J. J. 

 Walker, at Chatham, in 1874. It is possibly, in other collections, mixed 

 with I', terricola, and has no doubt been passed over in the field for 

 that insect. — Ibid. 



QuKDius oblitekatus, Er. — A qui^Rv as to Mr. J. H. Keys' Note 

 IN THE Entomologist's Monthly ]\lA(iAziNE, July, 1902. — In the Knt. 

 Mo. Ma;/, for July last, jMr. Keys, in an interesting article, confirms as 

 British, (Jnediiis obliteratiis, Er. lie points out that, although not 

 included in Canon Fowler's work, nor in Cox's Handhonk, it was enu- 

 merated by T. ^'. Wollaston in his " Note on the Coleoptera of the 

 South of Ireland " {Zoolo;)ist, 1817, pp. 1570-6), and is also ascribed 

 to Great Britam, on rhe authority of Wollaston, by Fauvel in his 

 ^^ Fa II lie Gallo-Ilheiiane," \ol. u'l., i^. 521. ]\Ir. Keys states that this 

 species is " doing duty in our collections as <J. siitiiralix, Kies." Are 

 we to understand by this that there are no true (J. siitaralis, Kies., in 

 British collections ? I have a specimen of a (Jiiediiis, which I took at 

 Gravesend on August 8th, 1891, under refuse, and which I consider to 

 be the true IJ. siitii rails, Kies. Mr. E. A. Newbery, Avho has seen the 

 insect, also agrees with this conclusion. I'urther on Mr. Keys, mentions 

 that he has taken IJ. obliteratiis in some numljers in the Plymouth district, 

 and also that one or two specimens are possessed by other coleopterists. 



