294 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



whilst, about the middle of the same month, Professor Hudson Beare and 

 I each took a single example, evidently the tail end of the spring brood. 

 This October, when in the company of Mr. Donisthorpe, hard work 

 brought the species to light in fair numbers at two localities in 

 Gibside. — Richard S. Bagnall, Winlaton-on-Tyne. October IQt/i, 

 1905. 



Atomahia grandicollis at Saas-Grijnd, etc. — I have spent the past 

 summer at Hauderes and Arolla, but the result from the collecting 

 point of view has been very poor, both for coleoptera and lepidoptera. 

 These valleys cannot compete with Saas as a collecting-ground. In 

 the report of the coleoptera I captured at Saas in 1904 {mitea, p. 179), 

 Anthdhiuui iiiijnrf<sicolle is a lapsus for fnrcicolle. The rare Atouiaria, 

 supposed at first to be a new species, is (irandunllh, Br. — M. Morel. 

 October Vdth, 1905. 



CtELIODES EXIGUUS, Ul., OF BoLd's COLLECTION = C. GERANII, Pk., 



with notes on the distribution of the same. — Knowing Bold had 

 taken his Coeliodes ewiiiiins:, 01., m a locality where ('. <ieranii occurs 

 to me in great profusion, that C ;/eranii had not been taken by him and 

 that he had not a type of it in his collection, I entertained doubts as 

 to the identification of Bold's so-called e.rii/iins of Oliver, though they 

 were determined by his friend the late E. C. Rye. An examination 

 soon proved the species in question to be C. (/eranii of Paykull, so for 

 the present at any rate we must delete ('. exiijiins from our list of 

 Northumberland and Durham coleoptera. C*. <ieraivii has been taken 

 by the late P. J. Selby at Twizell, the late Dr. Power at Wallington, 

 the late James Hardy, LL.D., at Axwell Park and Hartlepool, more 

 recently by Mr. Gardner from (xeranium saniiumeiiiii on the coast 

 near Hartlepool, and by myself from 6r. sylvaticiun, and, if I remember 

 rightly, G. pratense, at Axwell Park, Winlaton Mill, and Gibside, in the 

 Derwent Valley, and at Gilsland on the Irthing. Where met with it 

 usually occurs in the utmost profusion, but in its habit is strangely 

 local. For instance, between \Vinlaton Mill and Axwell Park there is 

 a large patch of its foodplant {(t. sylvaticxm), yet, though it occurs on 

 either side, it seems quite absent at the patch in question. The larvffi 

 feed in the (Jeravium seedpods, whilst the beetle itself is most usually 

 found with its snout buried in the centre of the flower, sometimes five 

 or six examples in one tlower-head. June is the month to look for it, 

 though I have taken it in September from iieneath the low-lying 

 Geraniiiin leaves. In confinement I have seen it subsist on both the 

 leaves and flower petals riddling them with holes. — -Richard S. 

 Bagnall, Winlaton-on-Tyne. October dtJi, 1905. 



Phymatodes lividus, Rossi, at Reading 1894 to 1905. 



By FRANK BOUSKELL, F.E.S., F.R.H.S. 

 In 1895, I received six specimens of this insect from Mr. A. H. 

 Hamm as Callidimii vartabilc, at the same time I wrote him that they 

 must be a local race, as they were much smaller and less variable than 

 any ('. rariabile I had seen. During the next few years I showed them 

 to several of our leading coleopterists, who all thought them an extreme 

 form of C. rariabile. This year I was confirmed in my opinion that the}' 

 were not rariabile, and on comparison with the European collection at 

 South Kensington they turn out to be Fhyinatudes liridtia, Rossi 



