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Gnypeta, as well as also to the i-easonable conclusion on the part of continental 

 authorities that coerulea, being a Scandinavian insect, would not be likely to 

 occur in Britain. As a matter of fact, however, quite a number of northern and 

 hill covmtry species occur in the moorland parts even of Devonshire, tlie insect 

 under notice being one of them. Fortunately I have the dictum of one of the 

 highest authorities for stating that our insect is the true G. coerulea Sahib. It 

 is rather belated now, perhaps, to publish the facts, but it seems desirable to do 

 so. In December, 1901, when communicating with Monsieur A. Fauvel, I asked 

 him if he would accept a few specimens of G. coerulea. He replied : " Gnypeta 

 coerulea Sahib, est une espece distincte de ripicola Kiesw. C'est ripicola qvie 

 vous avez en Angleterre, et avec plaisir, j'en recevrais un ou deux exemplaires. 

 La coerulea est propre a la Scandinavie et Finlande. J'ai public une note a ce 

 sujet." Having received the promised specimens from me he wrote as 

 follows: — " Votre Gnypeta est coerulea Sahib, (ripicola Ksw. est u^ne espece tr^s 

 differente). J'ai des types de Sahib, et Kiesw." Sharp's Homalota carhonaria 

 is therefore synonymous with coerulea Sahib., and not with ripicola Kiesw. 

 (Eevision, p. 114). In Fowler's " Coleoptera," Vol. II, p. 143, ripicola Kiesw. 

 should be deleted as a synonym of coerulea Sahib., and in the European Cata- 

 logue, carhonaria Sharp should be deleted as a synonym of ripicola Kies., and 

 be added to coerulea Sahib. G. ripicola Kiesw. has not as yet, been found with 

 us. The synonymy of our two species is as follows : — 



carhonaria Mann, nee Sharp. 

 lahilis Er. 

 coerulea Sahib. 

 carhonaria Sharp. 



I have taken G. coerulea in damp moss, etc., in many of the moorland streams 

 in the Plymouth district, and sometimes in considerable nvunbers. — James H. 

 Kets, Whimple Street, Plymoiith : Fehruary 22nd, 191.5. 



[I captured six specimens of this species on the banks of the Inn, below 

 Guarda, in the Lower Engadine, on July 21st, 1900. Switzerland may there- 

 fore be added to the distribution. G. coerulea is not mentioned by Ganglbauer 

 in his work on the Central European Staphylinidae. — G. C. C], 



The distrihution o/Helophorus mulsanti Rye. — In Fowler's work this species 

 is recorded as occurring in variovis inland localities near London. I have not 

 seen any specimens except from the coast, and should be much obliged if anyone 

 who has fresh-water examples of the species woiild let me see them. I should 

 also be very glad of information as to the distribution of nanns, dorsalis, and 

 strigifrons.—J). Sharp, Brockenhurst : Fehruary 5th, 1915. 



Evetria buoliana Schiff., in America. — A few notes culled from the recently 

 published " Bulletin No. 170 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture," con- 

 cerning the appearance of this common and destructive European Tortricid, 

 may be of interest to British Lepidopterists. Serious injury to European pines 

 was reported from a nursery in Long Island, N. Y., early in the siimmer of 1914, 

 and Mr. A. Busck, the writer of the Bulletin, and Mr. Heinrich undertook an 



