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same fungTis, which is, I think, a Daedalea. The beetle was found only 

 in this particular fungus, and is the sole species of Epuraea that we saw. 



It was iden-tified by us as Epuraea distincta Grimmer, and the 

 determination l>as been confirmed by Mr. Champion, to whom all 

 the specimens in our possession were sent. The following are the 

 most distinctive cliaracters : the thorax is broadest behind the middle,, 

 and is suddenly and deeply excised on either side, in front of the 

 posterior angles, which form almost right angles ; the elytra are some- 

 what pai-allel-sided, with moderately broad lateral margins and rounded 

 apex, and are suffused with dark markings, which were very obvious during 

 life ; the antennae have the club slightly infuscate, and the last joint, 

 almost as broad as the penultimate ; the intermediate tibiae of the S are 

 emarginate in the middle within, the emargination terminating in a 

 tooth. Length 2-3 mm. Habitat : Mid-Europe, France, Italy, Ural, 

 Baikal. 



vSuperficially E. distincta closely resembles E. ohsoleta F., but is 

 easily distinguished from it, as well as from all tlie other British species^ 

 by the emargination of the sides of the thorax. 



Great quantities of wood are brought to Swansea and to Burry Port 

 on either side of the Gower for use in coal mines. The wood comes, 

 mainly, I understand, from South France and from Norway. A large 

 amount of driftwood from these countries is cast up on the Gower coast.. 

 It is just possible that the species has been introduced in this manner 

 more or less recently; if so, it would seem at least to be very well 

 established in its new home. 



1^66 Willesden Lane, N.W. 2. 

 May 1919. 



NEW AND LTTTLE-KNOWN SALTATOEIAL DASCILLIDAE : 

 SECOND SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE. 



BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



On pp. 26, 27, ante, two Scirtes, from Fiji, were added to those* 

 enumerated by me in the 1918 Volume of this Magazine. The very fine- 

 collection of Coleoptera made by the late lamented H. C. Dollman in 

 N. lihodesia in 1913-15, recently presented by his father to the British 

 Museum, contains representatives of several new species of the same- 

 genus, and the opportunity is now taken to describe them, as well as 

 another Scirtes found by Mr. Neave on the shore of the Victoria 

 Nyanza. These African forms should be added to my last year's paper, 

 between Nos. 25 and 26. 



