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G. Ji-n/s/'aiiiis Sharp. — Sand}' shore near Ambleteuse, Pas-de-Calais; 

 three specimens, J 2 . 



G. appcnJleuJfttus Sharp. — I have taken tliis species in the wet moss 

 o£ a small alpine lake, near St. Etienne-de-Tinee, Alpes-Maritimes, at 

 about SUOO ft. elevation. 



In the present genus I have always found the form of the penis 

 absolutely constant and to conform strictly to Dr. Sharp's descriptions. 



Qtiedms s/thaj)icalis Joy. — I have not yet seen any specimen of 

 this species from France, but it occurs in the mountains of Corsica 

 and Algeria. 



Q. hammianus Sharp. — This Qnedius is a well-known one on tlie 

 Continent, where it has a southern and western range ; it is, of coui-se, 

 chiefly a coast insect. It has been described previously under the names 

 of: ;?r?//?):>es Lucas, from Algeria ; simplicifrons Fairm., from Corsica; 

 and hispanicus Bernh., from Spain. I have taken it in Brittany (Iloscoff, 

 Le Croisic) and on the Mediterranean shore (Antibes, St. liajjhael). 

 Whether it is really a distinct species or a southern and macropterous 

 form of molochinus I am not able to decide. In any case it must take 

 the name oi pallipes Luc. 



Gyrophaena eonvexicoUis Joy. — Among hundreds of G. hici- 

 diila Er., occurring in fungi on old stumps of willow and poplar at 

 Vitry-le-FranQois, Marne, I have detected four specimens of this very 

 distinct species. 



Myrmecoj)ora hrevipes Butl. — I have taken this species in some 

 numbers under seaweed in Jersey (beneath Gorey Castle), at Begmeil, 

 Finistere, and Le Croisic, Loire-Inferieure. The true M. uvula Er. does 

 not occur in France north of the Islands of Re and Oleron. 



Hydraena hritteni 3oj. — Besides the specimens taken in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Arleuf, Nievre, and already recorded by Dr. Joy, I have 

 succeeded in finding numerous examples near Epinal, Vosges, among 

 dead leaves at the bottom of a ditch of fresh and somewhat current 

 Avater. 



Laccobius purpurciscens Newb. — This beautiful small Hydrophilid 

 has been met with only in the neighbourhood of Castres, Tarn, by 

 M. Galibert, who has recently recorded the precise location of his 

 captures (Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1916, p. 270). One of the spots is on red 

 sandstone, as in Devon. 



Laccobius ytenensis Sharp. — Generally distributed and common 

 throughout Northern and Central France ; further, in Northern 



