30 the entomologist's record. 



species mixed with C. serrate/, and there are one or two other specimens 

 in British collections. 



Cryptomorpha desjardinsi, Guer. {lor. cit., p. 275). — This cosmo- 

 politan species has been taken by Mr. E. S. Bagnall in a cellar at his 

 house at Winlaton-on-Tyne. A single specimen was taken by Mr. E. 

 A. Waterhouse some fifteen years ago in London on a bunch of 

 bananas. Though these specimens were most probably introduced, 

 there is every possibility that the beetle will eventually become 

 acclimatised and will, therefore, be quite as much entitled to a place 

 in our list as many of the other cosmopolitan species which have 

 gradually been introduced into this country. 



Gardiophorus erichsoni, Buyss. (Ent. Mo. Mag., xlii., p. 156). — This 

 species was taken by Dr. Joy and Mr. J. R. Tomlin during their visit 

 to Lundy Island last April. The specimens were found under small 

 stones, or at the roots of grass. This species was introduced into our 

 list by Mr. Champion under the name oirufipes, Fourc, nearly twenty 

 years ago, but there was probably some mistake about the actual origin 

 of this specimen, and, therefore, the Lundy Island captures are really 

 additions to the British list. 



Ptinus pusillus, Stm., (Ent. Record, xviii., p. 45). — Mr. Donisthorpe 

 records this species from captures by Mr. Pool at a corn shop at 

 Edmonton. It is a common species in France and Germany, and lives 

 in granaries ; it is probably another of those species which are being 

 distributed by commerce all over the world. 



Carida aflinis, Pk., (Ent. Mo. Ma;/., xlii., p. 220). — Dr. Sharp 

 introduced this species on the authority of specimens taken by Col. 

 Yerbury and Mr. G. C. Lamb, in Strathspey, in July last. The species 

 occurred in fungus on old trees. 



The following new varieties were also introduced into our list: — 

 Drowins agilis ab. bimaculatus, Dej., by Mr. Donisthorpe (Ent. llecord, 

 xviii., p. 75) ; this aberration was taken by scraping the lichen off the 

 bark of a tree at Battle, near Hastings. Homalium caesum ab. sub- 

 rulieorne, n.ab., by Mr. B. S. Bagnall (loc. cit., p. 72), specimens were 

 taken from a rotten Polyporus, at Gibside ; the Rev. T. Wood has also 

 taken this aberration at Rannoch ; Stenus ossium var. insularis, n.var., 

 taken on Lundy Island in August, 1905, by Dr. Joy, and described by 

 him (Ent. Mo. Mag., xlii., p. 5) ; Lathrobium elongatum var. nigrum, 

 n. var., described by Dr. Joy (loc. cit., p. 271) from specimens taken in 

 Devon, in 1902. 



The only note dealing with synonymy is one by Mr. G. Lewis (loc. 

 cit., p. 255), in which he states that, in his opinion, Hister 12-striatxs, 

 Schrk., and Hister 14:-striatus, Gyll., are distinct species. 



Of the above additions to our list, only one, I think, should appear 

 in the supplementary list of "Beetles introduced by commerce since 

 1900, and since breeding in this country," which I suggested last year, 

 namely, Cryptomorpha desjardinsi. 



A considerable number of beetles, usually considered to be very 

 rare, have been put on record during the past year, and a few of these 

 records are now given : — Enmierus rufus, Mull., taken by Mr. Pool at 

 Enfield, and by Mr. Butler at Hendon ; Quedius longicornis, Kr., 

 captured by Mr Britten in flood refuse in Cumberland, and by Mr. 

 Morley at Monk's Soham, Suffolk; Donacia obscura, Gyll., appears to 

 occur in some numbers at Sutton Broad, where it was first taken by 



