106 t^»-^' 



4 (5) Males: having the upper apical angle of side lobes of pygofer completely 

 rounded oft"; style narrower than that of cuspidata, pointed at the 

 apex producta Germ. 



6 (4) Females : having the last ventral segment sub-equal in length to the 

 preceding cuspidata Fab. 



6 (3) Crown longer than broad, the sides very evidently indented at the 



ocelli: females. 



7 (8) Last ventral segment sub-equal in length to the preceding. 



.producta Germ, 



8 (7) Last veutral segmBnt Jit leaat one-half long;er than the preceding. 



depressa Germ. 



No definitive account of the apex of the male abdomen in E. depressa 

 has been publislied, and one can only say with certainty that we have in 

 this coujitry two kinds of males and three kinds of females. I have no 

 direct evidence that the female here assigned to jjroducfa really belongs 

 to that species. 



The object of this notice is to incite field entomologists to the col- 

 lection of material in this genus so that the doubtful points may be 

 cleared up ; and there is, therefore, no advantage in discussing the 

 literature of the subject in detail. 



Colesborue, Cheltenham. 

 April 7th, 1919. 



Phheopora angustiformis Baudi. — In Fowler's "British Coleoptera'' (vol. ii, 

 p. 43) he mentions a specimen of this genus under the name of transita Muls. 

 and Rey, and he treats it as a variety of P. corticalis. In Newbery and NV. E. 

 Sharp's very useful and careful list of British Coleoptera (1915, p. 11) the 

 name transita is given as a synonym of anyustiformis Baudi, and treated as a 

 distinct species. I know of no other reference to the insect in British litera- 

 ture, and the example mentioned by Fowler is without any other locality than 

 England. I may therefore record that 1 found three specimens at Sherwood 

 that agree with the description of angustiformis given by Ganglbauer (Kaf. 

 Mitteleur. ii, p. 104), and that it is undoubtedly a good species nearer to 

 reptans than to corticalis, distinguished by its smaller size, narrower form, and 

 dark colour. P. reptans is identified by Ganglbauer as testacea Mann. As at 

 present understood, it is a variable species, and it is not improbable that there 

 may be more than one under the name. I liave a specimen from Thornhill 

 that has a slightly different head as well as being unusual in colour and punc- 

 turing, but looking to the variation of other specimens it cannot at present be 

 satisfactorily separated. — D. Sharp, Brockenhurst : March 2lst, 1919, 



Note on Pterostichus angustatus Dufts. — The warm weather to-day tempted 

 me to visit a sawmill in our pine-woods, mainly to ascertain whether any of 

 the special Coleoptera observed there during the past two years were still 

 to be obtained. Only one of them, Pterostichus angnstatus, put in an appear- 

 ance. This insect occurred sparingly round the mill in the sawdust from the 



