258 [November, 



one specimen at Hazelhead, 13.11.13; H. palliatus, Gryll., not common, Skene, 

 11.11.13 ; Aboyne, 21.9.12. Hylastinus obscurus, Marsh., fairly common and 

 general, in dead and dying broom ; the larvae and perfect insect may be found 

 together. Myelophilus piniperda, L., only too abundant in pines. Phlceophthorus 

 rhododactylus, Marsh., very common and general on dead broom, often along 

 with Hylastinus. 



13, Cardew Place, Aberdeen : 

 March 28th, 1913. 



GABRIUS PRIMIGENIUS, Jot, A NEW BRITISH BEETLE. 

 BY NORMAN H. JOY, M.R.C.S., F.B.S. 



When spending a day with Dr. Sharp in the New Forest in April, 

 1913, he showed me a very distinct new species of beetle, Actobius 

 ytenensis, recently taken by him, and very kindly accompanied me to 

 the spot where he had found it, but we failed to catch further speci- 

 mens. On returning home I found that I had an example of it 

 among my series of A. signaticornis, Rey, labelled " Bradfield, 1910." 

 At the end of September, I visited the only ground in this district 

 which at all resembles the habitat of A. ytenensis in the New Forest. 

 It is a very limited area of sphagnum, which is at present, on account 

 of the very fine weather we have had lately, only slightly damp. 

 There were very few beetles in the sphagnum, but I eventually 

 obtained six specimens of the species for which I was looking, and 

 somewhat to my surprise a Gabrhis, which, however, proved to be a 

 female. A few days afterwards Mr. Tomlin accompanied me to the 

 spot, and although for fully twenty minutes we caught nothing, we 

 eventually took a few more of the Actobius, and three more of the 

 Gabrius. On dissecting a ^ specimen of the latter I was very pleased 

 to find it was G. primigenius, Joy, the only other $ being G. penna- 

 tus, Sharp. Since then I have collected a large quantity of the 

 sphagnum in sacks, and sifted it carefully at home, but have only 

 succeeded in taking two more examples of Gabrius, one being a $ , the 

 other a <$ primigenius. In describing G. primigenius (Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 vol. XLIX, p. 25) from a single specimen from N.W. Spain, I stated 

 that the legs are dark. On re-examination of the type, kindly lent 

 to me by Mr. Champion, I find this description only applies to the 

 hinder pair, the others not being well seen. I am quite unable to see 

 any external distinctions between this species and G. pennatus, so 



