iVb/e.v oa British Coleoptera, Inchidlng three sjjecies new to our list. — 



iLiBirs ^NESCExs, Tlioms., Opusc. Ent., 125. — According to Dr. Kraatz (Berlin, 

 ent. Zeitschr., xt, p. 166), there is an English example of this species in the late Dr. 

 Schaum's collection. It is closely allied to /. angustior, but is usually somewhat 

 smaller, with less metallic reflections, and has its antennse uniformly ferruginous, 

 instead of pitchy at the apex. I. gutiiger is distinguished from it by being decidedly 

 larger and blacker, with more erident rows of punctures on the elytra. All my sup- 

 posed aiigustior are to be referred to (xnescens. 



IlYDRorours eloxgatultjs, Sturm. — My friend, Mr. T. J. Bold, in the ' Xatural 

 History Transactions of Northumberland and Durham,' vol. iv (1872), p. 376, de- 

 murs to my statement in Ent. Ann., 1872, p. 138, that this species, introduced by 

 him (Ent. Mo. Mag., iv, p. 283), was " erroneously identified ; " remarking that I 

 had not seen his specimen, nor had any description of it. Passing over the latter 

 Siix words, as irreconcilcable with the concise and accurate account of the insect given 

 by Mr. Bold himself (J. c), I wish most emphatically to apologise to him for my 

 wrong doing, and for which, the result of a misconception on my part, my sole excuse 

 is that n. elongatulus was omitted by Dr. Sharp (who was, according to my belief, 

 in communication with Mr. Bold) from his recent Catalogue. 



ilr. Bold, however, informs me that Dr. Sharp did not see this specimen until 

 after the appearance of the ' Annual ' above mentioned, and that, in the opinion of 

 the latter, the insect is "half-way between tristis and eloiigatidus, and it would not 

 be safe to introduce the species on that specimen alone." 



HoMALOTA HEPATICA, Er. — A note on the occurrence during the past spring of 

 various single specimens of this hitherto rare British species may not be altogether 

 uninteresting. Mr. E. A. Waterhouse (whom the insect would appear to follow, 

 judging from former records by him in this Magazine) , has recently twice caught indi- 

 viduals near Hampstead, in the public road, on the wing, and has swept up another 

 from grass under a tree in the same locality. Mr. Waterhouse has also taken another 

 example at Darentli, by sweeping blue-bells (this being the method by which he formerly 

 captured other specimens at Ripon). Mr. Champion has taken four sporadic exam- 

 ples at Caterham, Shirley (in moss), and Chatham ; I observed amongst some other 

 Brachelytra an enormous specimen of it, taken fortuitously by the Rev. T. Blackburn 

 near Grreenliithe ; and I have myself just "fluked" a fine ^ , when beating willows 

 for Erirhinus on Wimbledon Common. I have taken the species formerly by sifting 

 dead leaves at Coombe Wood, and some of Mr. E. A. Waterhouse's former captures 

 were made in birds'-nests in London : but the true habitat of the species seems yet 

 to be found. Mr. E. W. Janson used, I believe, occasionally to find it crawling on 

 fences near Highgate. 



OcTPUS MOEIO, Auct. — The few British specimens (some 12 in number) which 

 I happen to have retained as representing this common species in my cabinet seem 

 divisible into two different races, of which, the larger has proportionably longer 

 antennse and tarsi (the latter members being also lighter in colour), a wider head, 

 and the thorax slightly narrowed behind. This appears to be the type of all authors. 

 A vague latitude as to width of head and other trifling characters (not, however, as 

 to those above mentioned) is allowed by the standard writers on Brachehjtra ; — 



