RETEOSPECT OF A COLEOPTERIST FOR 1902. O 



most admirable piece of work published this year has been 

 Mr. Newbery's revision of Boi/aKs, printed in the June number 

 of The Eiif(i)iiulitiiiM's Rrcnrd (xiv., p. 149). This paper it may be fairly 

 said has straip^htened out a croolved path, and made possible the 

 identification of captures in this genus in a way not previously 

 possible except on the part of those who have access to continental 

 collections and works of reference. It is, however, interesting to note 

 that Mr. Edwards {Knt. \Lo. Maij., xxxviii., p. 240) claims that Bayous 

 Iiif.osKn, Gyll. (which Mr, Newbery omitted in his paper on the ground 

 that neither he nor Mr. Champion had been able to find an authentic 

 specimen {Ent. Mu. Met;/., xxxiv., p. 52)), is a genuine British insect, 

 he having taken an example in August, 1890, at Wretham Heath, 

 Norfolk. I only mention this as an illustration of the difficulty of 

 coming to any final conclusion when writing a memoir on such a 

 difficult genus as Bmiom, Avhen, owing to their retiring habits, the species 

 must be, and, as a matter of fact are, frequently passed over ; even if 

 captured, the confusion into which the nomenclature of the genus had 

 fallen was enough to deter any one from attempting to identify and 

 record their captures. As a result of Mr. Newbery's paper, the follow- 

 ing changes were made in our catalogue in this genus. The species 

 called frit, on p. 240 of vol. v, of Canon Fowler's work, is split up 

 (see also/7«^ Mo. Mai/., xxvii., p. 81) into B.frit, Hbst.(=/j. mibcar- 

 inatus, Gyll.), and 1>. rlniidicaus, ?>oh. There are also two new 

 varieties, one of which, I regret to say Mr. Newbery has not named ; 

 these are B. teiuprstiviis var. /teaderi, and B. i/labrirnatris var. ? 



The cold sunless summer and late spring would have been sufficient 

 reason for scanty records of the capture of rarities, but, on the 

 contrary, the records are well above the average, and a few are worth 

 drawing attention to. Tacln/^i jiarniliis, Dej., long a doubtful species 

 in our list, has been taken now at such widely separate points as 

 Woking, Lyndhurst , Cornwall, and Lancashire ; Ij/rtns bnnincux, 

 Steph., has been found at Hanwell, in an old post ; ('eHtJiorhi/nchidins 

 lai.vtufi, Muls. and Rey, at Woking ; Gnorinimnohilif^, L., at Towcester 

 and Ealing; Liitta rcsicatoria, L., at Bradfield, and in plenty at Dover 

 and Newmarket, in June ; ('etunia tioricola, Hbst., and I'of/nHocherns fm- 

 cici(lati(s, De G., at Rannoch ; H/iizotroniis ochraceiis, Knoch, in Corn- 

 wall, an interesting record, as it has not been taken for a good many 

 years; AucJionieniis A-pnnctatiis, De G., (hlontaens iDobilirorni^, F., and 

 Pissodt's notatns, F., all at Woking ; Prinnoci/phon st'rricnrnix, Miill., in 

 Epping Forest ; Aeiliits cancdiciilatm, Nic, in Berwickshire ; Meloe rii- 

 liosiis, Marsh., at Broadstairs and Weymouth ; Supfrda firalaru, L., in 

 Derbyshire and Cumberland; Otinr/n/nnis liiiiistiri, L., at Matlock; 

 < 'ryphaliis fai/i, Fab., in Surrey and Sussex ; Hijdropnni^ fernii/ineus, 

 Steph., Philnnthns sviitatus, liv., Placiiso cotnplanata, Er., and Hi/dro- 

 t/iassa liannoverana, F., ail in Cumberland ; Hi/drtiratiis rli/pmlis, Sharp, 

 in the Isle of Wight; Lom/itarxns anchnsae, Pk., from Peebles; 

 Perileptiia areoLatus, Creutz, Klater pomonae, Steph., and Hi/lccortiis 

 deriiiestoides, F., all additions to the Irish list due to Messrs. Donis- 

 thorpe and Bouskell ; Aei/ialia riifa in great abundance on the 

 l^irkdale sandhills ; Malac/iiiin iiiariiinelliiH, 01., at Peebles ; tlu- 

 second capture in Scotland ; Larinm^ carUnae, 01., at Rye; Maiitinu 

 (■hri/s(i)ithi'iiii, Koch, AiiniineriKs birrin, Er,, (iymnetrnn coUiinis, Gyll., 

 and (i.IiiKdiae, Panz., all from the Southport district; these, with many 



