92 [April, 



S. rubidus, Rey, for comparison ; it is evidently distinct from S. ryei, Woll. The 

 synonymy therefore appears to be -.—Scopmus minimus, Er. 



ryei, Woll. 



rubidus, Brit. Cat., nee Rey. — 



E. A. NewbeeTj 13, Oppidans Road, N.W. : March 15th, 1914. 



Ocyusa defecta, Rey, in Westmorland. — Among a number of more or les6 

 interesting beetles, taken during a flying visit to Witherslack last June, was a 

 small Homalota-like insect which I suspected might be the above. Mr. Newbery, 

 with his usual kindness, passed the specimen on to Capt. Deville, who confirms 

 the naming. This is only the second record of 0. defecta for the British Isles. 

 The first specimen was taken in Devonshire by Mr. S. G. Eendel in 1908, and 

 introduced by Mr. Newbery as British in Ent. Mo. Mag., 1909, p. 150. The 

 capture of the species in such widely separate counties as Devon and West- 

 morland, suggests the probability of its occurrence in some of the country 

 intervening. My specimen was taken in the sweeping-net while working over 

 a marshy piece of ground. Apparently it is a rare species on the Continent. — 



F. H. Day, 26, Currock Terrace, Carlisle : March 3rd, 1914. 



Proteinus limbatus, Wahlb. {crenulatus, Pand.) in Westmorland and Cumber- 

 land. — Another of my Witherslack captures worth recording is the above, of 

 which I took one specimen by sweeping. It is a male, and the remarkable 

 crenulations on the anterior edge of the intermediate tibia? are very distinct. 

 The species was brought forward as a British insect by Dr. Sharp (Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., 1909, p. 267), he having taken four specimens at Nethy Bridge a year or 

 two previously. On showing my specimens to Mr. Britten, he examined his 

 series of P. brachypterus, Er., and promptly found two examples of the rarer 

 insect, taken in the parish of Great Salkeld, Cumberland. — F. H. Day : March 

 3rd, 1914. 



Aradus lawsoni, Saunders — synonymical note. — I have long had a suspicion 

 that Aradus laivsoni, Saund., described in 1877 from a single specimen from 

 Lawson's collection, was not a native of this country, so many doubtfully British 

 Scolytidte (Xylechinus pilosus, Polygraphus pubescens, Tomicus typographus, &c.) 

 having been captured by him in timber (probably imported for pit-props) in 

 the Scarborough district. On calling Dr. Bergroth's attention to this insect 

 he writes me as follows : " Saunders' description and good coloured figure of 

 A. lawsoni agree perfectly well with Finnish specimens of A. truncatus, Fieb. 

 There can be no doubt that the two insects are synonymous, and this is also the 

 opinion of Prof. Sahlberg and Dr. Poppius. A. truncatus occurs in Germany 

 and four or five places in France, as well as in Finland, but it has not yet been 

 found in Sweden or Norway. It appears to be very rare everywhere." In 

 Saunders' continental collection of Hemiptera, which is now in the British 

 Museum, there is a specimen of A. truncatus, Fieb., from Mt. Dore, Auvergne 

 (received during recent years from M. de Buysson), agreeing perfectly with his 

 type and figure of A. lawsoni, thus confirming Dr. Bergroth's identification. — 

 G. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking : February 5th, 1914. 



