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While walking down to the ship 1 picked up from the pavement 

 ;i fine water-beetle, Kydrophilus insularis, Casteln. 



So ended my fortnight in Venezuela, yielding in butterflies alone 

 492 specimens, of 124 species, of which 53 were represented by single 

 examples. Let me add that I found the Venezuelans civility itself, 

 and my operations were in no wise interfered with. 



Twitchen, Mortehoe, K.S.O. : 



December 12th, 1907. 



CRYPTOPHAGUS LUVENDALI, Ganglb., IN THE NEW FOREST. 

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



On July 23rd last I found a number of Cryptophaqi (mostly 

 C. scanicus, Linn., and C. saginatus, Sturm) and Mycetophagus quadri- 

 qtittatus, Mull.,* amongst dry dead leaves and fungoid growth in 

 a hollow beech tree in the New Forest. The Cryptophaqi included 

 two specimens of a species unknown to me, which I have now been 

 able to identify, thanks to the assistance of Captain Deville. It is 

 the C. l0vendali of Ganglbauer [Kaf. Mitteleuropa, iii, p. 678 (1899)], 

 treated by him, and also by LoWendal previously [Ent. Meddelelser, 

 iii, pp. 245, 246 (1891 — 92)], as a variety of C. pubescens, Sturm, 

 with a 3-jointed antennal club. The insect in question resembles the 

 typical dark form of C. scanicus in colour, from which it differs in its 

 broader shape, coarser sculpture, and slightly less dilated ninth antennal 

 joint, this being not quite so wide as the eleventh. From C. pubescens 

 it may be easily separated by its darker colour, the dilated ninth 

 antennal joint, and the rounded sides of the prothorax. Captain 

 Deville informs me that he has seen five specimens of C. l</>vendali 

 from France, all from hollow trees, and there can be no doubt that it 

 must be treated as specifically distinct. O. Uoendali, in fact, forms 

 a connecting link between the Cryptophaqi with a 2-, and those with 

 a 3-jointed antennal club. Ganglbauer, I must add, has examined 

 one of my examples, and returned it as a species unknown to him ; 

 but this may be due to the fact that he appears to have named the 

 Danish insect from L0vendal's description alone, without having 

 seen a specimen. 



On April 24th I again visited the particular tree in the New 

 Forest, only to find that the cavity had been filled with broken 

 bottles left by picnic parties, and the contents therefore could not 

 be examined. 



Horsell : May 8th, 1908. 



Cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., xliii, p. 207 (1907). 



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