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8th. The large black spiracles are very conspicuous by having a white 

 border round each. On the 2nd and 3rd thoracic segments the lateral 

 whitish of the spiracular region is largely replaced by red, and on the 

 2nd, and less on the 3rd, is a dorsal red circle, shading out laterally, 

 and so much diminishing the yellow. On the prothorax the sub- 

 spiracular red line passes forward directly from the spiracles, and, in 

 some movements, ranges with the oblique lines ; it is really neither, 

 though a yellow band below it seems to range exactly with the yellow 

 flange. The general appearance of the larva is of seven yellow 

 segments, changing into red at each end, suddenly at 7th abdominal, 

 and nearly as suddenly at 2nd thoracic. The spiracles are con- 

 spicuous black dots along the sides. The larva feeds well on Lotus 

 eonu'cidatits, and buries itself largely in the top buds, leaving the red 

 tail most exposed, and under a weak lens this exposed portion has 

 very much the look of an animal's head, the spiracles being the eyes, 

 two pairs (pi. xiii., fig. 4). 



(To be concluded.) 



(grOLEOPTERA. 



Some additions, etc., to the Coleoptera of the Northumberland 

 and Durham district. 



By EICHAED S. BAGNALL. 



CaLATHUS ilELAXOCEPHALUS, L., VAR. NUBIGENA, HaL. Not UUCOm- 



mon on the Blauchland Moors, and similar localities. I have also 

 taken it near Winlaton Mill, the thorax not being so dark in these 

 latter specimens as in those from the higher lands. 



AxcHOMENUs sExpuNXTATus, L. — On April 13th, 1903, 1 met a fellow 

 coleopterist who had just taken a strange Anchduienus from the moors 

 near Blanchland ; the six " punctures " being distinctive, I naturally 

 put it down to A. scvpiinctatus, L., but hope shortly to make a closer 

 acquaintance and so record it definitely. 



Creophilus m.\xillosus, L., VAR. crLARis, Steph. — This rare variety 

 of a very common coleopteron is recorded by the Eev. Canon Fowler 

 from the Tweed, Clyde, and Argyle districts, and as having been taken 

 by Mr. Champion at Deal. Mr. Donisthorpe tells me he took it at 

 Ashstead {Ent. Mo. Mai/.) ; also common in Ireland (7r/.s7i Lint and 

 Irish Xatiiralist, Donisthorpe and Bouskell). In 1901 (July?) it 

 occurred to me near Winlaton Mill, from a dead dog, literally alive 

 with CreapJiilus, XecropJioriis, Xecrodes, Sil2)Iia (including the fine S. 

 thuracica), tiister, various Staphylinids, etc., all in one writhing 

 heterogeneous mass. Again, on September 2nd, 1902, I took another 

 example of the var. cilia ris, this time from under a dead cat "resting" 

 in a field near "Winlaton. These several localities are so widely spread 

 — north, south, east, and west— that it seems to me that if all collectors 

 paid the common Crenphibts particular attention, they would very 

 likely come across var. cilia ris, and so add to our knowledge of the dis- 

 tribution of a most interesting beetle. 



SiLPHA atrata VAR. BRUNNEA, Hbst. — Occasioually in the Derwent 

 Valley, where I once took a remarkably small example. It has also 

 occurred to me at Eiding Mill, in Tynedale. 



Triplax russica, L. — Fell to Mr. H. S. Wallace, of Heaton, New- 

 castle, and myself, on July 22nd of this year, from fungi growing on 



