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informed me that Ptiniis U'ctit.^-'- was now to be got there, I decided to 

 go with him, as I had never taken that beetle before. We accordingly 

 paid a visit together on December 17th last, and found that /'. tfctns 

 was in numbers all over the granary from the attic to the cellars. It 

 must have developed very rapidly of late years, as, heretofore, only two 

 specimens have been obtained from this locality, which were taken by 

 my friend Mr. Chitty, in 1892 (Knt. Mo. Mcuj., 1904, p. 109). 

 Mycetopha<iiis A-nuttatus also occurred in the utmost profusion, and many 

 specimens of Cryptophai/i including C. distinyneudiis'''', C. sayinatnx, C. 

 bicolor'-, and 0. cellaris. On January 10th we went again, and this time 

 the best capture was Olv/ota i/ranaria-'-, of which a nice little series 

 was taken. I was especially looking out for this insect, as the week 

 before, Mr. E. A. Waterhouse had observed that he wondered I had never 

 turned it up at the granary. Canon Fowler writes of this interesting 

 little Staph. {Col. Brit. Idcs, ii., p. 175): " "Very rare ; introduced by 

 Mr. G. R. Waterhouse on the strength of a specimen taken by himself 

 (but without locality), has also occurred at Scarborough. According 

 to Mulsant and Rey it is rare in France and lives in cellars on the 

 black mould {Miicedo cellaris) that grows on walls and casks, etc. ; it 

 is found m company with Cn/ptajdiarfits, Mycetaca hirta, and Orthojierus 

 atomarius. These species are found together in Britain and probably 

 the Oliyota will be found with them if searched for." Linnel records 

 (Nat. ilist. Reiyafe, iii, 1898, p. 29) one specimen taken by his brother 

 near Red Hill Station, in 1859, and B. G. Rye took it in the cellar of 

 a public-house in Shoe Lane, in 1893. We found our specimens on 

 boards which were leaning against the wall in a cellar, and Atomaria 

 niyripemii.r' (also a cellar species), Mycetaea hirta and Cryptophayi 

 occurred in numbers with them. Several specimens of Latliridiua 

 heryrothi'- were taken at the same time. This little beetle appears to 

 be spreading over England in the same way that ConinoDiiis nodifer 

 has done. It has now been recorded from Nottingham (Thornley), 

 Chesham (Elliman), Oxford (Holland), Wells, Norfolk (Joy), South- 

 ampton (Gorham), Winlaton (Bagnall), and London. On January 13th, 

 my friend Mr. Chitty went with me to take the Oliyota and the 

 Atoniaria, both of which were secured. The beetles had left the planks 

 and were on the walls, and under the plaster on the walls, but were not 

 so abundant as before. I obtained the Lathridiiis again. Mr. Saunders 

 tells me that a Psocid which occurs in some numbers on the walls, 

 etc., is Clothilla picea, and some Chelifers I sent to Mr. 0. P. 

 Cambridge are new to Britain ; these make the second new species I 

 have sent him from this granary. — Horace Donisthorpe. January 

 Slst, 1905. 



Dermestes peruvianus, Laporte, at Liverpool. — I have for some 

 time known of the existence of this cosmopolitan species in Liverpool, 

 having received specimens both of the larva and the imago by the 

 kindness of my friend, Mr. Richardson, As the species now seems 

 firmly established in the St. John's Market, it seems worth a record. 

 It feeds upon beef, mutton, and pork, and specimens are sometimes to 

 be seen flying about the market in the middle of summer. The only 

 European record for this species seems to be France. — J. R. Le B, 

 ToMLiN, M.A., Chester. Marc?i 25th, 1905. 



*NoTE. — The species marked with an asterisk are new to my list of the beetles 

 of this granary (see Ent. Record, 1897, p. 77). 



