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circumstances, it appears probable that the man who obtained it was in the habit 

 of visiting yards in which timber and dye woods and roots were stored. As an 

 importation, it is not very likely to have been introduced with timber, being a root 

 feeder ; but it may have come in with some of the dye roots. It is a native of 

 Germany. 



The second is Lehia hwmorrhoidalis, a fine specimen, beaten out by Mr. Side- 

 botham himself from a wood near Devizes, in the first week of June, 1864.. 



The third is Oxythyrea stictica, also taken by Mr. Sidebotham himself on rose 

 flowers, on the Lancashire coast, in June, 1862. He took two specimens in cnpuld, 

 and Mr. Edleston, who was with him, took one individual. 



The fourth insect is Brachinu^ glairatus, Dej. 



This insect somewhat resembles a small specimen of B. crepitans, but differs 

 from that species in the entire absence of all costatiou from its elytra, which are 

 finely and closely punctate. Moreover, if I am not mistaken, the head is very much 

 shorter, and the eyes are much more prominent, so as to give the head a much 

 more rhomboidal form. 



Dawson, in his Geod. Brit., gives the J5. glahratus of Stephens as a variety of 

 B. crepitans ; if he be right in so doing the insect is still worth recording, though 

 only a variety, for it is certainly a very rare one. In my opinion, however, it 

 must be considered as a separate species. I have examined, I may say, almost 

 thousands of B. crepita/ns, but never saw one hke this before. 



Mr. Waterhouso has a specimen in his cabinet which he has ticketed B. gla- 

 hratus, taken long ago by Mr. Hope. 



Mr. Sidebotham's insect is one of the supposed B. sclopeta, taken the summer 

 before last in Cumberland (and alluded to in the Entomologist's Annual of this 

 year) under the following circumstances : — 



Mr. Murton, of Silverdale, a Lepidopterist, on an excursion into Wastdale in 

 June and Jul}', 1863, had a bottle, into which he put beetles at random for his 

 friend, Mr. Sidebotham, and in this bottle the latter found three or four specimens 

 of a BracJdnus (referred to in this note as glairatus), taken most probably at 

 Wastdale, but possibly at Silverdale, for Mr. Murton is not sure as to the exact 

 locality, though it was certainly in one of these two places. — John A. Power, M.D., 

 52, Burton Crescent. 



*#* Mr. Sidebotham has kindly sent to me, for examination, one of the 

 Brachini above mentioned, which is certainly quite unlike the insect referred to 

 by Dr. Power, as B. glahratus (though supposed to have been taken in 

 its company) ; being larger, with unspotted antennae, more elongate front 

 to the head, and longer elytra, which are moreover not nearly so smooth, and have 

 more prominent shoulders, with a lurid red stain below the scutellum. This 

 species exhibits a superficial resemblance to B. sclopeta, for the reason last above 

 mentioned ; but differs from that species in being much lnrgo>r, with more elongate, 

 less convex, and rather duller elytra, and in having the underside, &c., of the same 

 colour as crepitans, instead of the bright, clear red so peculiar to sclopeta. The 

 stain on the elytra, also, has the appearance of being accidental, as it is not 

 equilateral, nor sufficiently continuous with the scutellum, which latter is rather 

 dark. I can form no decided opinion as to this insect ; it may, perhaps, be a variety 

 of B. o-epitans, in which the antennae are sometimes unspotted. 



