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the club is slightly broader than in A. parvula, and the last joint is narrower in 

 proportion to the penultimate ; the c ? has a large, sharp, thorn-shaped tooth at the 

 apical angle of the posterior femora and in the ? (at any rate in my specimen) the 

 posterior femora are distinctly angled beneath ; in A. parvula they are quite simple 

 in both sexes. 



A. ftavicornis appears to be a very rare species on the Continent. 

 I took a ? specimen on the evening of June 8th by sweeping grass 

 at the side of a watercress bed. I have visited the same locality on 

 three ideal evenings for sweeping since then, and have obtained two 

 $ $ within ten yards of the same spot. The $ , of course, is abun- 

 dantly distinct from A. parvula, and the 9 also can be easily recognised 

 by the colour and shape of the club of the antennae. 



Bradfield : July 1st, 1908. 



A NOTE ON THE COLEOPTRRA OP THE SCILLY ISLANDS. 

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



The only note I am aware of on the Gohoptera of the Scilly 

 Islands is one by Mr. Champion in Ent. Mo. Mag., ser. IT, vol. viii, 

 pp. 217-220 (1897). He here gives a list of 102 species taken by 

 him on a trip of nine days to the Islands during July of that year, 

 and adds to these 40 species taken by Mr. J. J. Walker on July 28th, 

 1879, and 13 species by the Rev. H. S. Gorham on August 16th, 

 1893, making a total of 126 species recorded from Scilly. Hoping 

 to add to this list by visiting the islands earlier in the year, I crossed 

 over on April 13th last, and spent four days on Tresco. The weather 

 conditions were anything but favourable, a strong and extremely cold 

 north-east wind rendering collecting impossible, except in quite a few 

 sheltered spots, which however fortunately included one side of the 

 large fresh-water lake ; the only beetles seen in the open the whole 

 time were Cicindela campestris and Melo'e proscarabceus. In spite of 

 this I collected 200 species, of which 139 are additional to the list 

 already noted. Comparatively few of these are at all uncommon, but 

 one has not before been recorded from Britain, and another is a very 

 interesting and distinct insular form, which I describe here as a new 

 sub-species. I had hoped to be able to visit Annet to examine the nests 

 of the puffins which breed there, but the sea was too rough to allow 

 me to land. The only other island I collected on was Bryher, quite 

 close to Tresco, but I found it very dry, and it only produced four or 

 five species new to the list. 



