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We have thus a definite strixctiu-al cliai-acter, which enables any one to at 

 once separate those two species, but in addition the shape of the thorax is quite 

 different, it is much sliorter in sicula and not so suddenly contracted behind 

 the middle. 



I am afraid that Fowler (misled perhaps by his correspondents) has mixed 

 the localities for the two forms, certainly the Luccombe Chine insect (I have 

 taken it there commonly) is punctata, that is the species with the thorax not 

 completely bordered ; I have also taken it at Berwyn on the Dee, Wales, but 

 nowhere else. 



The other siDCcies, sicula, is by no means confined to Scotland ; I have 

 taken it at Wimbledon and Wicken Fen, and in Scotland at Nethy Bridge, 

 Aviemore, and near Edinburgh, in my opinion neither of the species is really 

 rare, they are both local but common when found, thoiigh Ganglbauer says 

 sicula is very rare and punctata rare. 



The synonymy of the two species as given by Ganglbauer and in the latest 

 European Catalogue agrees with that given by Fowler. 



Lesteva sicula, Erichson = heeri, Fauvel and Kraatz = punctata, Duval and 

 Thomson. 



Lesteva punctata, Erichson, Kraatz and Fauvel = riparia, Hecr ;= muscorum, 

 Duval. — T. Hudson Beaee, 10, Eegent Terrace, Edinburgh : April 9th, li)10. 



A note on Tychius hsamatopus, Gyll., Sfc. — I have taken the above species at 

 Tilgate Forest, Sliej)herd's Well, and Saudown, Isle of Wight. Thanks to Mr. 

 Edwards' excellent table and paper on the genus Tychius (antca, pp. 80-83), it 

 is noAv possible to correctly name our species. 1 may mention that the specimen 

 of Tychius polylincaMis I took when staying at Ditchling Avith my friend Mr. 

 Dollman, was actually found by him. I was sweeping and he was " grubbing " 

 at the roots of plants for Tychii, and he called to me to come and take a Tychius 

 off his i>aper. He has found three specimens so far of this very rare insect. 

 I can only claim to have identified the species. — Horace DoNisTHOBrE, 

 58, Kensington Mansions, S.W. : April 6th, 1910. 



A suggestion for future records of Colcoptera. — It would gTeatly facilitate 

 the labovu' of those who are compiling local or county lists, or of any one 

 Avorking at the British distribution of Coleoptera, if all Coleopterists would 

 mark with an asterisk, when recording captures of beetles, such species as are 

 new to the district or the county ; or when this is not possible, from a locality 

 not given for the species in Fowler's "Coleoptera of the British Islands." In last 

 year's Ent. Mo. Mag. Mr. Tomlin pviblished some most interesting and useful 

 lists of beetles from Herefordshire ; nearly all the species, say nine-tenths of the 

 whole, were new records for the county, but the remaining tenth would be perhaps 

 noted in "Fowler" from "the Malvern Hills" say, whence Mr. Tomlin also 

 recorded them ! It thus meant that every one of these insects had to be checked 

 with " Fowler " before the records coidd be made use of, a gi-eat waste of time 

 and labour which could have been avoided if the hitherto unrecorded species 

 had been marked with an asterisk ! I ventiu-e to say that I now know the 

 British localities of most of oiu" beetles as well as any one, but it is obviously 



