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THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 



Mail, a very interesting note (p. 223) on the characters by which 

 H. bilineatus and H. (jranularis can be separated. Mr. Bouskell has the 

 credit this year of adding also another new beetle to our list in 

 Aphodius stitniii, Harold {Eat. Record, vol. xv., p. 92) ; the beetle was 

 taken by Mr. Keys near Plymouth, and sent to Mr. Bouskell while he 

 was working at the variation of the genus ; it is superficially not unlike 

 nitiduluK, but is very much smaller. Mr. 0. E. Janson records (Ent. 

 Record, vol. xv., p. 128) Pentaplnjllus testaceiis, Hellwig, which he took 

 in June, 1876, under a decaying Boletus in the hollow trunk of a 

 partially decayed oak in a field at Hornsey. Lastly, Mr, Donisthorpe, 

 who has also added two species to our list this year, was fortunate 

 enough to take Aphanisticitx eniari/inatKs, F., in large numbers in Park- 

 hurst Forest, Isle of Wight, in August last {Ent. Record, vol. xv., 

 p. 265) ; it is a more elongate insect than A.pmilliis, 01., and more 

 narrowed in the middle. Considering how rare the other British 

 species of this genus, A. pusillus, is, it is interesting to note that the new 

 species was found in large numbers. 



In addition to the above new species, we have one new variety in 

 (Hhius fulripennis ab. donisthorpei, which was taken by Mr. Chitty in 

 the New Forest, and has been described and named by him {Ent. 

 Record, vol. xv., p. 151), and another in an unnamed variety of 

 PhytosvH ni;/riventris, Chevr., found by Mr. Keys at Whitsand Bay 

 {Ent. Mo. Ma<i., vol. xxxix., p. 19). It has three or four of the 

 abdominal segments black. INIr. Keys {Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxxix., 

 p. 174) has also taken a quite black variety of CarobKs nevioralis, 

 Miill., on Dartmoor. 



It may be mentioned here that a new Ptinus, which has been 

 identified as tectum, Boildieu, has been taken freely in London by 

 Mr. Pool, and previously (also in London) by Mr. Newbery, and by 

 the writer at Strood. This, of course, has been introduced by 

 commerce, but appears to be establishing itself in this country. 



Many good species have been taken this season, in spite of the 

 prolonged spells of heavy rain which ruined the summer and autumn 

 months, but I only propose to mention a few of special interest. 

 Calosowa sijcoplianta, L., has been taken both near Hastings and at 

 Weymouth. Probably there was a small invasion of this species, as 

 it is extremely unlikely that the two taken Avere the only ones which 

 succeeded in effecting a landing on our shores. (jrynandropthahna 

 ajfinis, Helhvig, has been taken again in numbers in Wychwood 

 Forest by its original captor, Mr. W. Holland, and I warmly 

 congratulate him on his good fortune. Lnthridium beryrothi, Reitt., 

 has turned up at Chesham, Southampton, Oxford, and in Norfolk, 

 in every case within doors. Sitarif. vmralis, Forst., after a long 

 absence, makes its reappearance at Chobham ; and Coripiibites 

 castaneiis, L., at Sandown, and TrecJius rindoris, Gyll., at Wicken Fen, 

 are both interesting records, as it is many years since either was taken. 

 I took what has hitherto been called in our catalogues Lathrobiinu 

 atripalpe in numbers in flood refuse near Edinburgh in the spring, 

 and at that time Mr. Donisthorpe submitted specmiens of our species 

 to M. Fauvel, with the result that he states the following change in 

 our synonymy must be made — our atripalpe is ptmctatum, Zett., and 

 what we have called pmictatnni is fundum, Steph. {Ent. Record, 

 vol. XV., p. 180). It is worth mentioning here that Harpalu^ frvhlichi, 



