196 THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD. 



Oxford — Harpalus attenuatus, Homalota succicola, Thamiaraea cinna- 

 momea, Mycetoporus clavicomis, Philonthus albipes and P. cephalotes, 

 Oxytellus inustus, Trogophloeus rivularis, Soronia punctatissima, Olibrus 

 liquid-us, and Longitarsus lycopi. To mention a few points which strike 

 us in this list, we should not consider Xaniholinus tricolor a coast 

 species, having taken it at Wicken Fen, Tewkesbury, Wallingford, 

 Sevenoaks, Chippenham Fen, etc., Dr. Joy has taken it at Streatley, 

 Fowler records it from Gloucester, and it is not uncommon at 

 Rannoch and in the Scotch Highlands generally. Bembidium 

 minimum, on the other hand, we have always regarded as entirely a 

 coast species, but we notice it is recorded as generally distributed in 

 the Oxford district. We cannot believe in Hope's record of Liarus 

 algirus taken off rushes and water-plants, when it is exclusively a 

 thistle feeder, especially as he speaks of L. paraplecticus as only a 

 variety of it, when the two species are totally unlike each other. 

 We do not quite understand the system by which rare species are 

 marked with a single and double asterisk, for example — Helophorus 

 nanus is marked with a single asterisk, whereas H. brevicollis, one of 

 the rarest species, of which there are hardly any records, taken by 

 Mr. Holland at King's Wier, has no asterisk at all ! Again, very 

 common species like Cryptocephalus aureolns, Batophila riibi, and 

 Agathidium carious, etc., have a single asterisk, and a very local and 

 rare species like Coccinella 5-punctata also has only a single asterisk, 

 whereas Anisotoma nigrita, which is certainly common and widely 

 distributed, has two. However, on the whole, the list is a very useful 

 piece of work, and should be in the hands of all British coleopterists. 



SOCIETIES. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society. 

 — May 23rd. — Exhibits. — Aberrations of Noctuids. — Mr. Brown 

 exhibited (1) varieties of Trachea piniperda from Oxshott, in some the 

 red markings were dominant, and in others the green ; (2) a dark 

 Agrotis exclamationis from Folkestone ; and (3) a very light A. puta 

 from Deal. An ant-beetle. — Mr. Ashby, a long series of the ant- 

 beetle, Thanasimus formicarius, from Oxshott, where it had occurred 

 commonly. June 13th. — Darenth insects. — Mr. West, of Greenwich, 

 the rare coleopteron, Triplax lacordairei, and the uncommon hemip- 

 teron, Verlusia rhomboidea, both from Darenth. Larva of Issoria 

 latona. — Mr. Tonge, a living larva of Issoria latona, reared from an 

 ovum sent from Hyeres by Dr. Chapman. Tinea cloacella. — ■ 

 Mr. H. J. Turner, a specimen of Tinea cloacella just taken in 

 Greenwich Park. Coleophorid larvae. — Also the living larva3 of 

 < 'oleophora discordella, sent by Mr. Wilkinson, of Workington. Strange 

 choice of foodplant by larva. — Dr. Chapman exhibited a living larva 

 of Calocatnpa exoleta, and remarked on their curious custom of feeding 

 on stale foodplant ; several species of larvae were noted as having the 

 same habit as C. exoleta, and, in their final instars, voluntarily changing 

 their pabulum. Aberration of Papilio machaon. — Also an example 

 of Papilio machaon, in which the costa of the forewings was much 

 more arched tban usual towards the apex, whilst in another the black 

 inner line of the dark submarginal band was wanting, and the black 

 basal circle of the ocellus was absent. 



