1917.] 277 



Notes on Devonshire i/isects. — In the Jauuary number of this Magazine, 

 pp. 14, 15, various insects were recorded by me from this county, all taken 

 during- July and August 1910. During the pi'esent year, Sept. 12th-0ct. 6th, 

 I have again been staying at Budleigh Salterton, etc., but so far as one's 

 captures are concerned, there is little to add to my previous list, mainly owing, 

 perliaps, to the wet or unfavourable weather prevailing during the greater part 

 of the time. The local Ochthebius, Lesteva, etc., were no longer to be found in 

 their usual habitat, it being no doubt too late for them, as it certainly was for 

 most of the Capsids. A few of the beetles observed are just worth noting 

 for localit}', as some of them are not mentioned from so far west in Fowler's 

 " Coleoptera," though it is probable that all of them have been recorded from 

 Devon. Such are — Notiophilus riijipes, Anchomeniis micans, Laccobins 2)ur- 

 purascens (fairly common as before), Homalota divisa, Thamiaraea cinnamomea 

 (in CossMs-oak), Fhilonthus marginatus (common in wet moss in Ilarpford 

 Wood), Lathrobium fraudnlentmn, Medon brunneus, Stilicus geniculatus, Stenus 

 lustrator, Ptilium kunzei (on a dry fungus), Anisotoma calcarata, Pediaciis 

 dermestoides (in beech), Epuraea longula, Melujethes brunnicornis, Cryptarcha 

 and Soronia, both species of each genus,, in C'ossMS-oak, Paramecosoma mclano- 

 cephalum, both light and dark forms, Aphodius inquinatus (in rabbit-holes), 

 C/irysomela banksi and haemoptera, Mniophila museorum (in moss, Harpford 

 Wood), Haltica lythri, Sciaphilus viuricatus (in very fresh condition), Sitojies 

 suturalis and sulcifrons (both evidently just emerging), Sibinia potentillae, 

 Padiyrrhinus i:-tubefculatus, OrtJiochaetes insiynis, and Apion ebeyiinum and 

 co7ifluens. Amongst the insects of other Orders, the following were captured : 

 IIkmiptera — Metatropis rufescens, freely on its usual food-plant, in Harpford 

 AVood (it was equally common in the New Forest in June last), and Gastrodesfer- 

 ruyineus, one specimen, from the planted pines in the vicinity. Orthoptera — 

 C'onocephidus dorsalis,a, few examples, c? 5 (as in 1916, and also c? and 5 pupae), 

 amongst Scirpus maritimus, by the " Otter " *, Mallophaga — a black form, 

 not represented in the British Museum, possibly Colpocephaluvi maurum Nitzch 

 (? =: jncemii Denny), one specimen, found in the sand on the Exmouth beach, 

 doubtless dropped from a gull. — G. C. Champion, Ilorsell, Woking : Oct. '22nd, 

 1917. 



Synonymic note on the group) Arpediopsini. — On page 123 of the current 

 volume of this Magazine I described a new group and genus of Staphylinidae 

 under the names Arpediopsini and Arpediopsis respectively, overlooking the 

 fact that the latter title has been used by Ganglbauer for a subgenus of 

 Deliphrum in "Die Kiifer von Mitteleuropa," vol. ii, p. 724 (189-5). It is therefore 

 necessary to find new names for the group and genus described by me, and I 

 })ropose to replace them by Arpediondmi and Arpediomimus respectively. — 

 M. Cameron, 7 Blessington l\oad, Lee, 8.E. 13: Oct. \iith, 1917. 



Tetratoma fungornm F.and Deliphrum crcnatitni Gr. in Peeblesshire. — I ha\e 

 pleasure in recording the occurrence of an example of Tetratoma fungornm F. 

 here, under the baric of an ash log, on October 1st. Deliphrum crenatum Or. 

 is fairly common under beech bark. — James E. Black, J^ieut., Dawyck Camp, 

 Stobo, Peeblesshire : Oct. 22,rd, 1917. 



* The allied Metrioptera brachyptera is to be seen equally late in the season at Woking, and was 

 noticed here a f';w days ago, on Oct. 15th. 



