1910.] 117 



One Oxypoda, obtained in May, 1908, on the sandhills at Bkaunton, was 

 kindly submitted for me by Mr. Newbery to Captain St. Claire Deville and 

 Dr. Sharp — the resiiltant opinions make its synonymy stand as lurida, Woll. 

 {poylexa, Rey) {teste Capt. Deville) = verecunda. Slip, {teste Dr. Sharp), [c/. 

 Ent. Mo. Mag-., xlv, 37]. 



I am very much indebted to the kindness of Mr. E. A. Newbery for the 

 verification of many difflcixlt species. — Philip de la Garde, Manor House, 

 Shaldon, Teignmouth : March 9th, 1910. 



Myrmecoxenus vaporariorum, Guer., near Oxford. — I met with this ctu'ious 

 and somewhfi.t rare little beetle, of which a single example only had hitherto 

 been recorded from the Oxford district {cf. antea, p. 30) in a haystack at Wytham 

 Park, Bex'ks., on April 9th, and again in considerable numlDers on the 11th, in 

 company with S^lnius diversus. Monotonia rufa, spinicolLis, and longicollis, vaviows 

 Atomarias and the usual run of haystack-frequenting Coleoptera. Unfoi'tunately 

 an unduly large propoi'tion of the specimens taken were found on mounting them 

 to be more or less broken and mutilated. 3Iyrinecoxcmis is an addition to the 

 list of Berkshire Coleoptera as given in the " Victoria County History." — James 

 J. Walker, Oxford : April 11th, 1910. 



Winged examples of Diglotta. — In view of Mr. G. C. Champion's remarks on 

 the numerous examples of the genus Diglotta which lie examined and found to 

 be all " apterous," as recorded by him in 1899 in this Magazine (vol. xxxv, p. 

 264), it is interesting to record the capttu-e of a fully winged specimen at 

 Dawlish Warren in June last. With my friend Mr. P. de la <5arde I was search- 

 ing for Bledii, and the Diglotta was found with them. Two examples only were 

 taken : one a small specimen, li mm. in length, with a mere scale-like rudi- 

 mentary wing as described by Mr. Champion, aud the other a large specimen, 

 24 mm. long, possessed of fully developed wings, the length of each being 2 mm. 

 with a maximion breadth of 1 mm. Both individuals have the widened apex to 

 the abdomen. Amongst his long series of Diglotta Mr. de la Garde has an ex- 

 ample which also appears to be fvdly winged, but he has not unravelled them 

 to make sure of the fact. — James H. Keys, 2, Freedom Park Villas, Plymouth : 

 April 14th, 1910. 



Lesteva sicula, Erichs., and Lesteva punctata, Erichs. — The Rev. W. W. 

 Fowler in his Col. British Islands, vol. ii, p. 403, suggests that these two species 

 are not distinct, and that the latter will probably have to be sunk as a variety 

 of the former; this is a mistake, the two species are quite distinct, and 

 easily separable, 



Ganglbauer, in his " Kafer von Mitteleuropa," vol. ii, p. 712, divides the 

 species of the genus he deals with into two groups. . In the one group, Avhich 

 contains only one species (punctata, Erichs.), the sides of the thorax are not 

 bordered on the basal half ; in the other group, which includes the rest of the 

 species, and therefore sicula, Erichs., the sides of the thorax are completely 

 bordered. 



