1910.] 143 



I recently sent a pair of these flies to Mr. J. E. Collin, who 

 informs nie they belong to a species hitherto unrecorded from Britain, 

 viz., Phaonia tr'unactdata Bouclie. These specimens are now in his 

 collection. 



Curtis (Farm Insects, 1860, p. 142) refers to this species as being 

 unknown to him, and he remarks that "it will, in all probability, soon 

 be detected in this country." 



Bouche (Naturgeschichte der Insecten, 1834, p. 80) who first 

 described the species under the name Anthomyia triniaculata, states 

 that it is fairly common in gardens and fields, and that the larvae, 

 which destroy the roots of cabbages, are to be found in summer and 

 autumn, in company with those of G. brassicae. 



It is somewhat remarkable that this comparatively large species 

 (examples with extended wings measure 16 mm. across j should have 

 hitherto escaped observation in this covuitry. 



The larvae from which the flies were bred were obtained at 

 Northenden, Cheshire. I take this opportunity of thanking Mr. Collin 

 for identifying the examples sent to him. 



Since the above was in type two more examples have emerged (on March 

 loth and 18th) from pupae collected on February 11th and March 5th. 



Dept. of A^icultural Entomology. 

 Manchester University : 



March 6th, 1915. 



Hypoiphloeus linearis F. and Cry2)tophagus cylindrus Kies., in the Wellington 

 College district. - 1 obtained a specimen of the former of these two species 

 several years ago by evening sweeping near Wellington College Station, but 

 last July it turned up not rarely in the burrows oi Pityogenesbidentatus,together 

 with a very few examples of Cryptophagus cylindrus. The latter species appears 

 to have been taken only once previously in England, viz., at Chobham — there 

 also in company with Hypophloeus linearis (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1907, p. 234). It 

 needs much care and patience to uncover the burrows without destroying the 

 inmates. - J. E. le B. Tomlin, Reading : March, 1915. 



A note on the synonymy of Gnypeta coerulea Sahib. — In the European Cata- 

 log^ie of Coleoptera, 1906, Norway and Finland only are recorded as the native 

 countries of G. coerulea Sahib., notwithstanding that the volvunes of the Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. previous to the date of the Catalogue contain many records of the 

 capture, in various parts of Great Britain, of the little Staphylinid in question. 

 The omission of the name of our country as a habitat of the insect is probably 

 due to confusion of the synonymy of the species comprised in the genus 



