THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 



in fact, a genuine addition to our catalogue, as it has never before 

 appeared in our lists, the only reference to its occurrence being in a 

 paper bv ^Ir. Wollaston on " The Coleoptera of the South of Ireland 

 {Znalnjut, 1847, pp. 1570-G), and, in spite of this, it does not tind a 

 place in the recent Irish list. Mr. Keys' note did not make it quite 

 clear whether he was of opinion that Q. siitnralis, Kies, was to be 

 displaced from our lists, but there is no doubt this is not the case. 

 There are undoubted specimens of (J.suturalis m our collections; it is 

 easily separable by the much coarser punctuation of the elytra. On the 

 other hand, there are probably many of the exponents of Q suturabs 

 standing wrongly under that name. They should be placed under Q. nb- 

 UtmttMs. which appears to be commoner in this country than Q.mturahs. 

 The little division of (JiirdiiixAo which fnmatns, uNvirortifiis, sKtnralis 

 iniihriinis, and nhliteratiif! belong, is admittedly a very difficult one, and 

 I am not inclined to place the slightest reliance on mere colour dis- 

 tinctions. The decisive character seems to be the nature and^ amount 

 of the punctuation of the elytra. Diasticticus vulxeratus, Sturm.-— 

 This most interesting addition to our AphnUidcw was taken by Mr. 

 C. Morley,near Brandon, last June, under a flint lying on the heather, 

 and was determined by Mr. E. A. Newbery {Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxxvui., 

 p. 253). Of the small allied species it most resembles superficially 

 0. porcatits, F., but is abundantly distinct. Gynandrophthalma 

 AFFiNis, Hellw.— Canon Fowler {Knt. Mn. Man., vol. xxxviii., p. 281) 

 records the capture of this addition to our Cb/thrinae by Mr. W. 

 Holland, in -June, 1899, in Oxfordshire. As the insect is so very un- 

 like any other beetle of our fauna, it is a pity it was allowed to remain 

 so long undetermined. No doubt careful search will be made in this 

 locality next summer to see if further specimens can be obtained. 

 DiBoi.iA cYNOGLossi, Koch.— Mr. Donisthorpe captured a short series 

 near Pevensey on August 11th {Knt. J'ecnnl, vol. xiv., p. 265). 

 Though, strictly speaking, this is only a reinstatement (as it appeared 

 in our lists up to 1866), still it is practically an addition, for the old 

 records were very untrustworthy. Rye says {Knt. Ann., 1868, p. 76) : 

 " It occurs in our catalogue, though with much dovht,'" and Canon 

 Fowler {British Coleoptera, vol. iv., p. 340) says, " It was probably on 

 an obscure specimen of this species (Lo?(//?>rtrs«.s i-t/iittatns) that Diboba 

 iifHofilossi was erroneously introduced into the British list. Coccinella 

 i 1 -PUNCTATA var. coNFLUENs, Douis. — This new variety, named by Mr. 

 Donisthorpe {Knt. Urcord, vol. xiv., p. 99), has been taken freely in Ire- 

 land, on the Galway and Kerry coast sandhills. Quebits cruenttjs var. 

 viRENs, Rottbg.— Attention was drawn to this in the Irish list, and 

 j\Ir. Donisthorpe {Knt. Record, vol. xiv., p. 297) gives further localities. 

 In addition to these genuine additions there are records of in- 

 troduced species to which it is desirable to draw attention. Mr. 

 Champion {Knt. ^[o. Mat/., vol. xxxviii., p. 88) records Cryptojdiibis 

 /7i«^//^r, Heer, amember of the Tebnatophib'dar iwm a London ware- 

 house ; and Mr. Newbery records {Knt. Ilrcnrd, vol. xiv., p. 338) Tropi- 

 dereshilaris, Fahrs., from a wholesale druggist's in the city of London ; 

 and Mr. Burgess-Sopp {Knt. Mo. Ma;/., vol. xxxviii., p. 9) states that 

 'J'rifionoiienn.s ijlnbubon is apparently spreading, as it has now been 

 taken at Hoylake, Cheshire, in a chemist's shop. It occurs freely now 

 in the Oldham mills. 



In regard to special papers on obscure genera in our lists, the 



