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occurs in North-East Australia and Celebes ; it varies in having the inner margin of 

 the hind-wings sometimes very broadly suffused with blackish, so that the white 

 colour is reduced to a discal spot; this is certainly a variety only. — E. Meyeick, 

 The King's School, Parramatta, N.S.W. : April 3rd, 1886. 



On tioo species of HisteridcB at present not included in our British List. — 

 Onathoncus punctulatus, Thoms. Among some Coleoptera supposed to have been 

 taken by the Rev. A. Matthews, some years ago, in Oxfordshire, I found three speci- 

 mens, which have been forwarded by Mr. Lewis to Herr J. Schmidt of Gollwitz, and 

 have been returned by him as being (as far as regards two of them) Onathoncus 

 {Saprinus) punctulatus of Thomson, without any doubt or comment. It will bo 

 remembered (as Dr. Sharp has pointed out to me) that this species was recorded as 

 British by Mr. Crotch (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1867, p. 445 ; Ent. Ann., 1867, p. 70), 

 but that Mr. Rye subsequently saw reason for doubting its specific difference from O. 

 rotundata. Certainly upon the two specimens taken by Mr. Matthews the idea of 

 their being identical with G. rotundata did not even occur to me. 



The third specimen Herr Schmidt returns as Saprinus pircBcox, Er., but remarks 

 " this cannot be of Britain." This specimen is superficially very like the Onathoncus, 

 the most evident distinction being the generic one, viz., that in Onathoncus the 

 prosternum in front has its marginal strise suddenly converging, thus being lanceo- 

 late, while in Saprinus the same lines gradually meet, so that the ridge of the 

 prosternum is pointed. This insect appears, from the Munich Catalogue, to inhabit 

 Egypt, and its occurrence here will certainly require corroboration. Onathonci 

 inhabit pigeons' and other birds' nests, and places such as towers where owls breed, 

 and it would be worth while, if any one has the opportunity of visiting such places, to 

 bear in mind the probability of our having more than one species of Histeridce 

 co-existing with the birds.— Heney S. Goeham, Shirley Warren : May \Sth, 1886. 



Diglossa mersa at Ventnor. — On April 24th, I found Diglossa mersa in numbers 

 on the shore at Ventnor ; the morning was very warm, and the beetles were flying 

 in the hot sun and settling on the rocks and shingle ; as they ran they fell into tho 

 small pools on and among tho rocks and so were trapped. — W. W. Fowlee, 

 Lincoln : May 12th, 1886. 



Somalium rugulipenne, Rye, at Wallasey. — I spent the afternoon of March 

 24th on the Wallasey sand-lulls, where I found the spring beetles, Aphodii especially 

 (and A. inquinatus, scyhalarius, and punctatosulcatus more particularly), very 

 abundant. On the shore, beneath a dead gull, I had the good fortune to meet with 

 Somalium rugulipenne in some numbers, but the wind was blowing so strongly at 

 the time that I found the capture of them a thing of difficulty. — John W. Ellis, 

 3, Brougham Terrace, Liverpool : Aj)ril 13th, 1886. 



Acritus punctum, Aube. — This pretty minute Hister has been a rarity in our 

 collections ever since Dr. Sharp and the late Mr. Crotch first found it on the famous 

 Chesil Bank, more than twenty years ago ; and many a handful of tidal refuse have 

 I shaken over paper, in tho precise locality of its original capture (kindly indicated 

 to me by Dr. Sharp), in the vain hope of obtaining it. On the afternoon of April 



