32 THE entomologist's record. 



species, the capture of which is recorded, but on account of the copious 

 notes as to habits and manner of life of many of the species. 



Mr. G. J. Arrow contributes {Ent. Mo. Ma;/., vol. xl., p. 35) a note 

 on two species of coleoptera introduced into Europe from the East, 

 Minthea ri(iiicnllis, Walk., and Laeniotntetim rhizophacioides, Walk., the 

 synonymy of which has been terribly confused. In a note to this 

 contribution, Mr. Champion refers to another of these peculiar species, 

 Phara.ninotha kirschi, Reitt., the synonymy of which has also been very 

 much confused. Small beetles like these, which are transported by 

 commerce to all parts of the world, and which, apparently, readily 

 establish themselves in the districts into which they are introduced, 

 are almost invariably described two or three times over, with consequent 

 confusion in synonymy. Mr. A. J. Chitty describes [Ent. Mo. Mat/., 

 p. 100) an interesting method of collecting, chiefly coleoptera, m old 

 hedges, near Faversham, Kent. He points out that he obtained no 

 fewer than 78 species out of a 38-foot length of old hedge, including such 

 rarities, in fair numbers, as, Anthribiis albinita, L., and Tropideres 

 niveiiostris, F. Having had the pleasure of a day's collecting with 

 Mr. Chitty at these old hedges, I can testify to the interesting character 

 of their fauna, and the striking lessons given of adaptation, for protective 

 purposes, to their surroundings of many of the beetles which occur in 

 these old lichen-covered hedges. In the Ent. Mo. JSIckj., p. 133, Mr. 

 E. A. Newbery points out that certain of the species in the Power 

 collection at the British Museum appear to be erroneously named. 

 Attention, however, had been previously drawn to one of these, and 

 Mr. Newbery does not appear to be correct in regard to, at least, one 

 of the species which he states to be erroneously named. 



The coleopterous fauna of the Isle of Man has received a consider- 

 able amount of attention during the past year. I have already referred 

 to the new species, Lu)i(/Uarsiis cartas, Al., taken there by Mr. Tomlin, 

 and, in the article already referred to {I. c p. 177), Mr. Tomlin gives a 

 long list of his other captures in the island during the month of 

 September, 1903. Dr. Bailey, who is resident on the island, makes an 

 appeal (p. 137) for notes in reference to the coleoptera of the island, 

 as he is busy preparing a local list, and he gives (p. 180) complete 

 details of local captures of the genus Otioi/upichas. Dr. Cameron 

 describes two new species of Dii/lossa [Ent. Mo. Ma<i., p. 157) from 

 the island of Perim ; there are now six species of this strange and 

 interesting genus of Staplnjlinidae, all occurring on the sea-coast. The 

 papers on coleoptera published in the Tranmctions of tlie Entoinoloi/ical 

 Societij of London for 1901 are well up to the average in numbers and 

 in interest, e.ij., Mr. G. J. Arrow in Part IV of 1903 (p. 509), which 

 appeared too late for any reference to it in my " retrospect " for 1903, 

 concludes his account of " Lamellicorn Coleoptera collected in the 

 islands of St. Vincent and Grenada by Mr. H. H. Smith;" the 

 present paper deals with the Laparostict group; of the twenty-two 

 species taken, nine were already known as inhabiting the American 

 mainland, two occur in other islands of the Antilles, and, of the remaining 

 eleven, ten are described by the author in this paper for the first time. 

 Mr. F. Muir and Dr. D. Sharp contribute to the 1904 Transactions (p. 

 1), a paper " On the egg-cases and early stages of some Cassididse." 

 The egg-cases dealt with were discovered b}' Mr. Muir in South Africa, 

 and, for the first time, we have definite facts as to the formation of 

 GOthecaB by members of this family. In addition to details of the 



