80 thb: entomolo(tIst's record. 



F., and Anaspis nt/irollia, ¥., by beating rowan trees. Under a stone 

 below the Garheugh rocks, a single < 'istda miiiina, L., black form, on 

 the 12th ; Qnciliiis iiiaiirnn(fus, Grav., and Stenus pallitarsii:<, Steph., 

 were swept from reeds in lochs, and another Chrysnntda fastuosa, L., 

 on the IHth, this time by sweeping in a hayfield near the White Loch. 

 In July, collecting began to languish owing to the counter attractions 

 of tennis, but y>ro//r//(.s ^/^cr/c/.s, 01., was taken on the shore; Lnnifi- 

 tamits lacris, Duft., swept on the moor ; a couple of the rare Aleochara 

 rnficoniis, Grav., were swept from grass under trees, in a wood, on the 

 3rd. Sweeping herbage produced nolitobius pyrimaeus, F., Mierocara 

 livifla, F., and P/n/lhnlerta rtilf/ot.issinia, L., and Leistotrophns nchulosus, 

 F., was brought into a house in Newton- Stewart by a cat, and given to 

 me alive and none the worse for its adventure. In Aiigust, Annhium 

 itnwf'sticiiw, Fourc. turned up in the house, and Aphodiiifi rnfesircnx. F., 

 was taken in cow-dung on the moor in September. The above insects 

 were again mostly taken in the immediate neighbourhood of Corse- 

 malzie. There are still a good many other captures to work out. and 

 which I hope to record shortly. — J. G. Gordon, F.E.S., Corsemalzie, 

 Whauphill, Wigtownshire. January SOtli, 1904. 



Remarks on M. Louis Bedel's " Coleopteres du Bassin de la Seine," 



Tome 5, Fas. 2. 



By E. A. NEWBERY. 



Although dated 1897-1901, this part has probably only recently 

 been issued in a separate form, since I have not hitherto been able to 

 obtain it. M. Bedel's work needs no commendation : like the former 

 volumes, it repiesents a vast amount of original study of the insects 

 described therein, and a comparison (where possible) with the original 

 types. M. Bedel has been peculiarly fortunate in having access to the 

 types of Allard, Foudras, and other writers on that difficult group, the 

 Halticidae, and has been able to clear up many obscure points in the 

 synonymy. British coleopterists may not be able to accept all his 

 conclusions, but the general accuracy of his work cannot be doubted. 



The short time that the book has been in my hands has rendered 

 it impossible for me to do much more than call attention to certain 

 changes in synonymy, to reproduce some of M. Bedel's distinctions 

 where they appear to be new or useful, and to make a few miscellaneous 

 remarks. For the purpose of comparison, I have taken the order of 

 the genera and species from Sharp and Fowler's ( ataloyue of 1898. 

 The analytical tables of this " fascicule " commence with Liiperufi, 

 but the "Catalogue" which follows includes all the I'lii/tnp/iaiia, the 

 footnotes being by no means the least interesting part. 



In what follows it must be observed that all names in the British 

 catalogue referred to are omitted, in which no change takes place. So 

 also, as a rule, are the names which accord with those in the last (1891) 

 European catalogue, since it must be presumed that our catalogue- 

 makers are cognisant of these changes, but have not thought fit to 

 adopt them. Where, however, I have wished to emphasise these 

 changes, believing that 'Si. Bedel's investigations have given them an 

 added value, I have inserted them. In the unfortunate genus Thmacia 

 we have the following alterations: D. craxaipes. F.. becomes inirans, 

 Hoppe('?(7-«s.s/y;('.s,F.). l>.ilintipcs,F. = coccim'n-fa»iata,lis,vvev. D.liiiibata, 



