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OCCURRENCE OF AN OLIGOTA NEW TO BRITAIN. 

 Oligota PYGMffiA, Kraatz, in Berliner Entomol. Zeitschrift, 1858, p. 352. 



I have determined this species from some specimens taken last September in a 

 refuse heap on Shirley Common, near Croydon, by Mr. D. Sharp (in company with 

 Mr. E. Shepherd). It scarcely equals 0. pusilUma in size, and is of the same 

 narrow, linear form ; but differs from that insect in having brown elytra, and the 

 terminal segments of the abdomen bright yellow. Its punctuation, moreover, is 

 decidedly finer and more dense. 



Dr. Kraatz (loc. cit.) describes four species of Olignta in which the terminal 

 portion of the abdomen is of a bright yellow colour, and of these there are two of 

 a slender linear form, viz. : 0. ruf/pennis, and 0. pygmosa ; the former, amongst 

 other differences, is distinguished from the latter by having four dilated joints in 

 the club of the antennaD. The specimens above mentioned agree with 0. pygmoea 

 in having but three broad joints, the joint preceding them being scarcely broader 

 than the middle joints of the antennae. In having the legs entirely pale they differ 

 from 0. atomaria ; and their much smaller size and narrower form distinguish them 

 from 0. injiata. — G. R. Wateehouse, British Museum, W.C, 6th October, 1864. 



OCCURRENCE OF AN ENNEARTHRON NEW TO BRITAIN. 



Ennearthron rRONTicoENE, Panzer, Ent. I., 98,/. 7 (Apate) ; Mellid, Ann. de la Soc. 

 Ent. de France, 1848, 865, 3. 



I have recently determined the above species, of which I found a considerable 

 number of specimens in a fungus upon an old willow at Weybridge, on the 11th 

 September last. 



Mellie (loc. cit.) makes two sections of Ennearthron ; one pubescent, and the 

 other glabrous. The first of these includes three species (the only known European 

 exponents of this genus), of which we have two previously recognized as British, 

 viz. : E, cornutum, GylL, and E. affi/ne, Gyll. ; E. fronticorne, the third, is at once 

 recognized from these by the more equal distribution of its pubescence, whioh 

 (although short and fine) is scattered thickly and evenly over the whole of the 

 elytra, and not arranged in rows of scant hairs. There is a slightly golden re- 

 flection from the pubescence, also, much as in Cis hispidus. It is very small, my 

 largest specimens being about the size of the smallest E. affine, and decidedly 

 narrower than that insect. The punctuation also is much finer and closer, and the 

 thorax more narrowed in front. — J. A. Power, M.D., 52, Burton Crescent, W.C, 

 Gth October, 1864. 



Capture of Quedius truncicola. — Early in the present year I recorded the cap- 

 ture of a large quantity of Ischnodes sanguinicoUis in some old trees near Esher. 

 In the same trees I also took some half-dozen specimens of Quedius truncicola, and 

 its larva. 



The depression on the vertex of the head in this species (as in Philonthus 

 jimetarius), mentioned by Mr. Rye in the Ent. Ann. for 1863, p. 112, is exhibited 

 also in all my examples ; and, in conjunction with the punctured scutellum, will in 

 my ojiinion afford a constant diagnostic character. It is generally supposed that 

 the abdomen is always ferruginous in this insect, but amongst my series are two 



