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Note on Tribolium confiisnm, Duv., and Fiinns testaceus, 01. — Though these two 

 species have not yet been inserted in the catalogue of British Coleoptera, they have, 

 I think, a good claim to a place there. Duval, in describing T. cortfusum, says that it 

 exists in several of the French collections, but is confounded with ferriigineum, and 

 is, in fact, the species described by Mulsant as ferriigineum. Of Ptinus testaceus, 

 Boieldieu says that it inhabits temperate Em-ope, and is rather common in wheat 

 granaries. I have specimens of each of these species in my British collection ; but 

 I do not think that I captured any of them myself, so that I can give no clue to 

 their locality.— D. Sharp, Ecdes, Thornhill : March 11th, 1873. 



[Dr. Sharp some time ago called my attention to these species, pointing out the 

 gradual dilatation of the antennfe towards the apex in the Tribolium, of which I 

 find an example mixed -viith. ferriigineum in my own collection. It is rather larger, 

 broader and flatter than the latter species, with the thorax more rounded at the sides 

 in front. The Ftinus is, I believe, the 5 sp. — ? of Mr. Waterhouse's catalogue, readily 

 distinguishable from P. fur by its want of any tufts of white hair in the middle of 

 the back of the thorax. — E. C. E.] 



Curious localltg for Homalium Allardi. — To the insects mentioned at p. 8 of 

 the Ent. Ann. for 1873, as having occurred in association with birds, may be added 

 the above-named somewhat rare beetle, which (with others) I have taken in my 

 parrot cage, when hung outside the house in warm weather. — T. Moelet, 57, John 

 Street, Pendleton, Manchester : March, 1873. 



[This Staphylinid seems of nomadic habits. If I remember rightly. Dr. Sharp 

 has taken it in the heart of London — I think in the precincts of Guy's Hospital, — 

 about old bones. — E. C. R.] 



Clytus erythrocephalus in J£ngland. — Mr. Rye's recent note reminds me that I 

 took a specimen of this insect in my garden here, many years ago. As I had received 

 some large boxes containing skins of birds and insects from North America dm-ing 

 the previous winter, I thought the beetle had probably been brought over in the pupa 

 state in the wood of which the boxes were made. I think I gave the specimen to 

 the late John Curtis.— Henry Dottbleday, Epping : March 3rd, 1873. 



Xote on Elater porno nce. — I thmk it desirable to note for the information of 

 others whose supposed exponents of this species may have been derived from the 

 same source as my own, that all the specimens (4 in number) bought by me of the 

 late Charles Turner as representing E. pomonce, and stated to have been taken by 

 him in the New Forest, are merely small examples of -B. Igthropterus (wliieh appears 

 to vary from 6j-lin. to 4i-lin.), with fulvous thoracic pubescence. The precept 

 " Caveat emptor" should, of course, have been borne in mind by me. 



As regards the species supposed by me to be intended by the name of IS. pomonce, 

 I have just seen an example, dug, with others, out of a dead birch tree in Sherwood 

 Forest, by Mr. J. Ray Hardy. This one, a $ , agrees with another $ example, 

 obtained by me through Mr. E. W. Janson, in differing at once from the immaculate 

 form of sanguinolentus by its lesser bulk, rather less convex thorax (which is more 

 straightly contracted towards the front, mora finely punctured, and clothed with 



