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SOME INTEEESTING BEITISH INSECTS (III).* 

 BY G. C. CHAMPION, P.Z.S., AND R. W. LLOYD, F.E.S. 

 (Plate IV). 



We now give figures of nine more species, all GoJeoptera this 

 time, in continuation of those shown on Plate I of the present 

 volume f. ' 



Fig. 1 — Salpingus (Babocerns) bishopi, Sharp. — Found by Mr. T. G. 

 Bishop and Dr. Sharp at Grantown, luverness-shire during the 

 summer of 1909. Fifteen specimens in all were captured by 

 shaking twigs and branches of birch [Ent. Mo. Mag., xlv, pp. 245, 

 246]. The allied B. tnutilatus, Beck, and B. champion! , Sharp, 

 have been taken in beech and sallow respectively, whereas the 

 true Salpingi are probably all attached to Conifers. 



Figs. 2, 2a — Euded'iis whitei, Sharp. — This species is sunk in the last 

 European Catalogue as a variety of E. giraudi, Eedt. The single 

 known example (kindly lent by its describer for figuring) was 

 captured by Dr. Sharp on the summit of Ben-a-Bhuird, Braemar, 

 in June, 1871. The minute ocelli are shown in the detached 

 figure 2(X. We have seen examples of E. giraudi from Germany 

 and the Austrian Tyrol, and they differ in various respects from 

 the Scotch insect, which is almost wholly black. E. gerhardti, 

 Pietsch, again, seems to be very nearly related to E. giraudi. 

 These continental forms have been found in moss or under bark, 

 E. gerhardti in maple. 



Fig. 3 — Bembidium argenteolum, Ahr. — Specimens of this handsome 

 insect were captured by the Rev. W. F. Johnson, at Ardmore, 

 Lough Neagh, Ireland, in Jime, 1899, and recorded as B. palu- 

 dosum, Panz. Soon afterwards, however, the mistake was detected, 

 and the species appears for the first time under its proper name 

 ui Messrs. Johnson and Halbert's " List of the Beetles of 

 Ireland," p. 587 (1902). It is larger, more robust, and more 

 shining than B. paludosum, and has the prothorax much broader 

 than long, and with sharp, prominent posterior angles. The 

 earlier Irish records of the last-mentioned insect probably refer 

 to B. argenteolum. 



* CJ. Ent. Mo. Mag., xlv, pp. 196, 197, pi. Ill ; xlvi, pp. 1-3, pi. L 



t In the explanation of Plate I (onfen p. 1), line 9, Odyneri'.x herrichii, for 1878 read 1868. 

 This insect was also figured in the " Annual " for 1869 under the name 0. basalis. 



