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p. 16. One of these, however, must be deleted as it is incorrectly named, viz., 

 Ephistemus glohosus, Waltl. We presume this is what Newbery means by 

 Ephistemus cjlohulus, Waltl, as E globulus, Pk. (not Waltl) = gyrinoides. Marsh., 

 and is not new to the Isle of Wight list, moreover, in his list to Taylor he 

 distinctly states " The two end ones are gyrinoides, Marsh., the middle one is 

 glohosits, Waltl, new to Isle of Wight., gyrinoides, Marsh. = globulus, Pk." 

 Taylor has now sent these specimens to me: E. globosus, Waltl, is a very 

 different insect, it is longer, more oval, more distinctly punctured both above 

 and below, and the legs and antennae are much shorter. Ganglbatxer (Kiifer, 

 Vol. iii, p. 737) fits globosus into a new genns Ootypus, on account of the shape 

 of the raeta- and meso-sterniun, &c. The specimen of Ootypus globosus, Waltl, 

 in the Bates' Collection agi-ee in all these points. Ephistemus globulus, Pk., varies 

 somewhat inter se in size and punctuation, in fact in the Bates collection glo- 

 bulus, Pk., and gyrinoides. Marsh., ai'e treated (following Crotch) as distinct 

 species. — Horace Donisthoepe, 58, Kensington Mansions, S.W. : Jan., 1910. 



Corymbites cupreus var. seruginosus, F., in Devon. — In reply to Mr. Bucknill's 

 question about Corymbites cupreus in this month's Ent. Mo. Mag., p. 15, I took 

 a specimen of the var. seruginosus at Belstone, near Okehampton, in May, 1901. 

 — Philip de la Garde, Manor House, Shaldon, Teigmnouth: January I2th, 1910. 



Oxytelus saulcyi, Pand., in Kent. — In view of Dr. Joy's note in the January 

 number of tlie Ent. Mo. Mag., it may be of interest to record that I took a J 

 specimen of this insect on January 6th last in a moles' nest in the Isle of Grain. 

 — M. Cameron, H.M.S. " Attentive," Chatham : January 17th, 1910. 



Platystethus alutaceus. Thorns., in Sussex. — I beg to add one more locality 

 for Platystethus alutaceus, Thoms., to Mr. Newbery's list in the last number of 

 this Magazine. I took this species last May at Pulborough, Sussex, in cow- 

 dung. — G. W. Nicholson, University College Hospital, London : January Srd, 

 1910. 



The food-plant of Otiorrhynchus auropunctatus, Gyll. — In view of Mr. 

 Champion's note on this interesting species (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xlvi, p. 2) — 

 so well depicted in tlie plate which adorns the January issue of this Magazine — 

 it may be of interest to record the fact that I was able recently to ascertain its 

 food-plant. Being in Dublin in September last, I visited, at the suggestion of 

 my friend, Mr. F. N. Halbert, Portmarnock, on the coast to the east of Dublin. 

 Sweeping a bank of mixed vegetation there I soon took a few specimens of 

 O. auropunctatus. On this bank grew clumps of ragwort, burdock, thistles, 

 and other plants, with a few straggling thorn bushes. Proceeding then to 

 carefully beat each of these plants separately into the net I discovered that it 

 was only from the thistles {Carduus arvensis) that the beetle could be dislodge ', 

 and on these they were quite abundant. It appeared evident that they were 

 actually feeding on the thistle leaves, which seemed to have suffered consider- 

 ably, presumably from the depredations of their larvae, although only the 



