THE 



ENTOMOLOGIST'S 

 MONTHLY MAGAZINE: 



SECOND SERIES-VOL. XVIII. 



[VOLUME XLIII]. 



NOTES ON VARIOUS BRITISH COLEOPTERA. 

 BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



The following notes on various British beetles may interest 

 Coleopterists : — 



Lathrobium elonqatum, L., var. nigrum, Joy, = L. elongatum, L., 

 var. fraudulentum, Ganglb., see Eeitter, Wien. ent, Zeit., 1907, 



p. 209. 



Rydnobius punctatus, Sturm.— Dr. A. Fleischer (Wien. ent. Zeit., 

 1907, pp. 265—268) treats R. punctatissimus, Steph., as a variety of 

 thi species. H. multistriatus, Gyll., is a very close ally of H. punc- 

 tatus, Sturm, and may perhaps occur in Britain. 



Anisotoma curta, Eairm.-Mr. Gardner, of Hartlepool, has taken 

 this rare British insect at Hesleden. He gave me a pair of it some 

 time back, and they have remained in my collection as A. dubia var. ? 

 till recently, when Commander Walker showed me a single female ex- 

 ample of the same form that he had taken near Oxford on October 19th, 

 1907, A. curta may be known from large A. dubia, which has very 

 similarly-formed posterior femora and tibiae in the male, by its more 

 elongate shape, the more rounded sides of the prothorax, and the 

 smaller apical joint of the antennae. I am indebted to Dr. Fleischer 

 for confirming the identification of these insects, which agree perfectly 

 with the example taken by myself at Esher in 1873. 



Bruchus affinis, Frol. (flavimanus, Boh.). - Some years ago 

 Schilsky examined the so-called B. affinis of my British collection 

 and pronounced them to be B. rufimanus, Boh., var. velutinus, Muls.* 



* Cf. Schilsky, in Kiister's Die Kafer Europa's, xxxxi, 22. 

 NUABT, 1908. 



