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%2lierae outlined in tliis circular. Contributions should be sent to Mr. C. E. 

 Fagan, Hon. Treasurer, Godman Memorial Fund, Natural History Museum, 

 Cromwell Koad, London, S.VV. 7. — Eds. 



Note on the getm-a Phucobius Sharp and Orf/ndus lley {Staphylinidae). — 

 Sharp in Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1874, p. 35, founded the genus Phucobius 

 for a maritime species from Japan, describing it as simulator. Hey in Ann, 

 Soc, A^ric. Lyon (4) viii. 1875, p, 339, founded his genus Orthidus on 

 Philonthus cribratus Er., a species found on the Mediterranean coast in salt 

 marshes. To Phucobius properly belongs Oci/pus contp-uus Walk,, from 

 Ceylon, and a comparison of this insect with Orthidus cribratus shows that there 

 is no structural difference whatever between this genus and Sharp's Phucobius, 

 -s*hich having priority stands. So far as is known, the genus appears to be 

 entirely maritime. There are two examples of conf/ruus Walk., from Ceylon, 

 in the Lewis Collection in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, 

 bearing the label " Horton Plains, 6000 feet " ; but on the lower surface of the 

 mount is written " sea-weed," and a-: it is not probable that sea-weed would be 

 found at that altitude it would appear that the locality -label is incorrect. — ■ 

 M. Cameron, 7 Blessington lluad, Lee, S.E. 13 : August 10th, 1919, 



Adimonia oeJandica Boh. in Dorset. — On July 2.5th, 1919, I captured a 

 specimen of this interesting Galerucid flying low over the Playing Fields, Sher- 

 borne School, Sherborne, Dorset. — E. J. Pkarce, The Lodge, Corpus Christi 

 College, Cambridge : August 5th, 1919, 



Lytta resicatoria L. in Norfolk and in the Isle of Wight. — Several living 

 specimens of this species have been sent to the Natui-al History Museum bv a 

 cfirrespondent at Feltwell, Norfolk, where tliey were reported to be defoliating 

 an ash-tree. They were fed on lilac, and three or four batches of ova were 

 obtained from them. In about a month's time the latter hatched and the 

 young triungulins were provided with eggs and pollen-masses from the cells of 

 Andrena nitida and Halictus spp., but this diet was not acceptable to them, 

 and, though some lived for about a niontli, the attempt to rear them was not 

 attended with any success, A single individual of the same species was taken 

 on the wing during the present season near Sandown, I. W., by Mr. Hug-h Main. — • 

 K. G, Blair, British Museum (Nat, Hist.), S.W,7 : August 20ih, 1919, 



Atheta inhabilis Kr. and A. valida Kr. in Berkshire. — I took a solitary 

 example of A. inhabilis Kr. near Wellington College, from under the loose 

 bark of a decayed pine log on June 29th. This species, which was introduced 

 to our fauna by Dr. Joy as Epipeda nigricans Th. (Ent. Mo. Mag. xlv, 1909, 

 p. 268), and subsequently (Ibid, xlvii, 1911, p. Ill) corrected bv him, has 

 hitherto only been recorded from Scothxnd. Close by I found a female of 

 A. valida Kr,, kindly identified by Dr, Cameron, on June 8th, among the damp 

 ashes of burnt pine tops. — G. W. Nichoi>son, Oxford and Cambridge Club, 

 S.W.—Julg 24th, 1919. 



Some Coleoptera taken in So7nersefshire : a cm-rection. — In the list inider 

 this heading in the last number of the Eut, Mo. Mug. (August 1919, p, 179) 



