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In the Cat. Col. Eiu-ojjte, publislu-d in 1890 — the authors of which appear 

 to like as many changes of names as possible — the two species are maintained 

 as distinct, in opposition to Bedel^ but the doubt as to synonymy has in this 

 work induced an entire change of name : sagittarix, Gyll., is placed as a variety 

 of nymphasae, but Weise's sagittarias is considered distinct and the name gri- 

 sesccns, Joannis, is adopted for it. According to this our two species are to be 

 called nymphxie and grisescens. This seems to me to be quite a mistake, and I 

 shall continue to use the old names ; and there is no reasonable doubt that 

 I shall be correct in doing so. Joannis described his G. grisescens in 1865 

 (Abeille, iii, p. 98) ; he adopts both nymxjlixx and sagittarise as distinct, and 

 describes grisescens as a third species, founded on a single specimen from 

 Sicily — and separated from sagittaria; by the interposition of four other species. 

 The description does not apply to sagittarise ; still it is possible that it may 

 refer to a variety thereof. 



I have been induced to investigate this matter by some very remarkable 

 specimens that I believe are a form of G. sagittarise, recently captured by 

 Mr. Anderson Fergusson near Glasgow. There is only one record of the captvire 

 of G. sagittarise in Scotland, and that is my own, as in September and October 

 1867, I captured a series at Dabton Loch, Thornhill. The specimens are very 

 dwai-fed, bvit I consider them to be sagittarise, as a careful examination has 

 revealed no satisfactory specific distinction. Mr. Fergusson's series agrees with 

 the Thornhill examples except in colour, and this is somewhat variable ; Init 

 some of his examples are entirely black. 



This i-emarkable form may be thus characterised : — 



G. SAQlTrAlil/E, VAE. B. 



Minor (42 — 5 mm. long.), nigi-a, elytroriun epiplexxris pedibiisqvie plus minus 

 flavescentibvis. — D. Sharp, Lawnside, Brockenhiu-st : February 2Sth, 1910. 



Cathormiocerus maritimus in Cornwall. — I owe an apology to Mr. Butler for 

 being ignorant of the fact that he has already recorded the occiu-rence of a 

 specimen of this species in Cornwall (Ent. Mo. Mag., Feb. 1909, p. 39), and I 

 should like to explain my mistake, which arises from the fact that until now 

 I had not looked through that particular number of the Magazine. During 

 February and March last I was away at Cambridge, and the Magazine was sent 

 to Brockenhurst as usual, and when I retiu'ned I looked at the March No., but 

 passed over the Febrviary one, probably under the impression that I had seen 

 it before. If C. maritimus comes to vis from N.W. France, it is curious that both 

 of the captures in Cornwall shoidd l)e in the north of the county. — Id: 

 March Uli, 1910. 



Coleoptera in South Cumberland. — The field work of resident Coleopterists 

 in Cumberland has hitherto been largely confined to the middle of the coiuity. 

 The extreme ends, north and south, being leather inaccessible, have been 

 neglected. With the intention of adding something to local knowledge, I spent 

 the early part of last June at Seascale, about ten miles south of St. Bees' Head, 

 a locality I found in every way an ideal one for a siunmer holiday. Unfortu- 



