204. [September, 



Fig. 4 — Anchomenus quadripunctatns, De Gr. — The figure of this 

 species (drawn by Westwood) in Dawson's " Geodephaga Britan- 

 nica," Plate I, fig. e, presumably taken from the single example 

 captiu'ed by Bold at Long Benton, is not characteristic, and we 

 therefore show one of those taken near Woking in Aiigust, 1900 

 [Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxvi, p. 202, xlv, p. 248]. The allied A. boge- 

 manni, Gryll. — a less elongate, flatter, black insect, wanting the 

 deep fovese on the elytra — has been taken in Austria with A. 

 qiuxdrijjunctatus about charred pines, and it may be found here 

 eventually. 



Fig. 5 — Borboropora hraatzi. Fuss. — We figure a continental example 

 of this rare insect. The luiique British specimen was captured 

 by Dr. Power at Mickleham, on July 13th, 1862, and is now in 

 the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. The species 

 has been taken " at light " at Vizzavona, Corsica. 



Figs. 6, 6a — Melanophlla acuminata, De Gr. — This conspicuous Bu- 

 prestid, found in some numbers last year on charred pines in 

 the neighbourhood of Woking, was a wholly unexpected addition 

 to our very meagre list of species of that group [Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 xlv, p. 249 (1909)]. The lai-va is shown also (fig. 6a), and, so far 

 as we are aware, it has not been described or figured, there being 

 no mention of the species in Kupertsberger's lists (1880 and 

 1894). Perris's figure of the larva of the allied Plieenops cyanea, 

 F., is very similar. A few specimens of the adult beetle have 

 again been captured in the same district this season, from July 

 9th onwards. Dr. Sharp informs us that an example has just 

 been taken by Mr. Ford in the New Forest ! 



Fig. 7 — Aidonium sidcatum, Oliv. (tristdcum, Geoffr.). — Found on 

 July 13tli, 1904, in all its stages, in burrows of Scolytus multi- 

 striatus, in elm-bark at Enfield, by Mr. C. J. C. Pool [Ent. 

 Record, xvi, p. 310 (1904)]. Prof. Hudson Beare (I.e. p. 311) 

 notes that the larva was described and figured by Westwood 

 (Introd. Mod. Class. Ins., i, pp. 146, 147, pi. 12, fig. 5). Cangl- 

 bauer (Kafer Mitteleuropa, iii, p. 852) states that the species also 

 lives in the burrows of Scoh/tvs destructor. This is one of the 

 numerous additions to ovu- list for which we are indebted to 

 Mr. Pool. 



Fig. 8 — Carida affmis, Payk. — Found singly at Strathspey, in July, 

 1905, by Mr. C. Gr. Lamb, and subsequently in numbers, by 



