1865.J 259 



In this insect, as in most (if not all) others wherein the male characters of any 

 part of the body are different from those of the female, modifications of the excess 

 of development occnr. In the present instance, some male specimens have nearly 

 straight hinder tibiae. 



I find the example above mentioned agrees with description, and also with a 

 type sent by Dr. Kraatz ; and subsequent to my determination, have compared it 

 with Mr. Crotch's original specimen, with which it also accords. — Id. 



Anisotoma silesiaca. — Mr. Crotch has kindly allowed me to examine the speci- 

 men on the authority of which he introduced this species into his catalogue, and 

 which he informs me was so named by M. Schi6dte. The insect in question is only 

 A. ovalis, and differs in every way from the true A. silesiaca, which is a large, 

 oblong, convex species, with coarsely punctured thorax, and strongly spined 

 anterior tibiae. — Id. 



Note on Carpophilus sexpustulatus, a dubious British species. — I have recently 

 found, among some British Coleoptera, sent to me for examination by Mr, 

 Edleston, of Manchester, an old specimen of C. sexpustulatus (Fab., Ent. Syst., 

 i., 260, 1, Nitidula : Er., Ins. Dent., iii., 137, 4), which was formerly in the 

 British collection of the Entomological Society, and has the name " Kirby " 

 attached to it, printed on a pink label. The species is found in Germany under 

 bark, and may possibly be truly British. 



It has somewhat the appearance of Nitidula flexuosa or 4!-pustidata, but may 

 be known from both of those species (apart from generic differences) by its thorax 

 being more distinctly punctured, and contracted behind. Prom its congener 

 hemipterus, it differs in having six spots on its elytra ; which are, moreover, con- 

 siderably longer. — Id. 



Brachinus glabratus, Dej. — Since my remai'ks in our last number were written 

 upon the insect brought forward as this species, I have examined another of the 

 specimens therein referred to, which has been kindly sent to me by Mr. Edleston, 

 This example is decidedly B. glahratus, having the antennse unspotted, and elytra 

 more roughened than in B. explodens. The fact of the two forms being found 

 together would seem, in some degree, to warrant their being considered as one 

 species by Dr. Schaum ; but I must admit that the insects in question present 

 considerable points of difference. Dr. Power was misled in determining his 

 specimen by the erroneous descriptions in Steph. Illust. — Id. 



To preserve the metallic colom- in the Cassidoe. — Dr. Morsbach, in the Stettin 

 Ent. Zeit., 1865, p. 114, states that a drop of glycerine, placed under the metallic 

 stripes on the elytra of the Cassidw and their allies, will cause the colour to remain. 

 This colour is evidently owing to the moisture of the body, since it fades when the 

 specimens become dry. — Id. 



Locality for Micropeplus tesserula.—l captured nine specimens of this rare 

 insect at Grange, Morecambe Bay, Lancashire, about the end of May, 1863. — 

 R. S. Edleston, Bowdon, March lOth, 1865. 



