104 c Ma y. 



H. granularis. The species occurs here in the old marl-pits found in 

 the district, in several places : it has been found plentifully in the 

 North of Ireland by Mr. Balfour Browne — who like myself did not 

 distinguish it from granularis — and it has also been met with at 

 Padstow by Mr. Lamb. I have examined the wings of many examples, 

 and they are quite the same from all the localities. 



H. granularis appears to be very rare in this country ; I found it 

 between Strood and Rainham jn February, 1867, but only a single ex- 

 ample, and Mr. Balfour Browne has found it very sparingly in Donegal, 

 Ireland. These specimens quite agree with examples of " H. granularis " 

 sent from Sweden by Professor Sahlberg. 



H. ytenensis varies somewhat in size and form, but maintains the 

 peculiar wings with remakable pertinacity. The Irish specimens are 

 rather larger and more robust than those found hei*e, and the legs and 

 palpi are a little shorter and stouter. 



Brockenhurst : 



April Uth, 1914. 



MALTHODES CRASS1CORNIS, Maklin. : A NEW BRITISH BEETLE. 

 BY NORMAN H. JOY, M.E.C.S., F.E.S. 



Last year Mr. P. Harwood kindly gave me a specimen of supposed 

 Malthodes nigellus, Kies., which he had taken in June, 1911, near 

 Bishops Stortford, Essex. As it happened to be a male, I compared 

 the external male organs with the excellent drawings given by Reitter 

 in his " Fauna Germanica, Kafer," Vol. Ill, p. 272, and had no 

 difficulty in identifying it as M. crassicornis, Makl. This species is 

 very closely allied to M. brevieollis, Payk. (nigellus, Kies.), but the 

 male has the last dorsal segment of the hind body simple, and not 

 bifid, and the last ventral segment much longer and broader. My 

 specimen differs from a female of M. brevieollis, identified by the 

 late Herr Ganglbauer, and lent to me by Mr. Tomlin, in having the 

 thorax distinctly less transverse and the front angles more prominent. 



Bradfield : 



April 9th, 1914. 



