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long and thin Hack hairs), the longer joints of its antennce, its thinner tarsi, and 

 somewhat flatter and more acuminate elytra. In fact, it rather more recals elon- 

 gatulus ; from which its slightly larger size, unicolorous and brighter red elytra, of 

 which the interstices are more convex, longer antennae, &c., will serre to distinguish 

 it. Mr. G. R. Waterhouse (Trans. Ent. Soc. 5, n.s., p. 90) originally pointed out the 

 \ongblack thoracic hairs of Stephen's specimen oi pomonce, and of others of his own 

 from the New Forest taken by Tiirner (which I have seen, and of which the males 

 agree with the two above mentioned), as the distinguishing character between that 

 species and sanguinolenttis ; and Dr. Candeze (Mon. Elat. ii, p. 445), merely referring 

 to a single specimen of Mr. Waterhouse's from the New Forest, is evidently somewhat 

 sceptical as to its specific value, and also mentions only the black hairs as separating 

 it from sanguinolentus. He quotes Stephen's " Man. of Brit. Coleopt. p. 179 ;" 

 referring to which work, I find the following description, &c. : — " Eather narrow ; 

 black, clothed y^'iih. fuscous pile (Stephens refers to black hairs in describing other 

 species) ; thorax slightly convex ; elytra blood-red, tip black, punctate-striate ; 

 tarsi pitchy (L. 4j — oi 1.). Darenth Wood ; Barmouth." How this is to be recon- 

 ciled with Candeze's " longitis nigro-pubescens, elytris immaculatis," passes my com- 

 prehension : nor does it appear to me safe to refer Stephens's specimen above men- 

 tioned to the species described in the ' Manual.' — E. C. Rye, Park Field, Putney, 

 S.W. : March, 1873. 



JVo^e on Otiorhynchus tenebricosus.—l should be glad if any correspondent could 

 send me a British type ( c? if possible) of this species. None of my own somewhat 

 long series can, I think, be correctly referred to it. They all seem to quadrate better 

 with 0. lugdunensis, Boh., Schdn., Stierlin (De Marseul, Mon. Otiorhynch., L'Ab. x, 

 p. 147), in which there is no frontal foveola, and the male has the anal segment of 

 the abdomen somewhat deeply foveolate at the tip as well as rather coarsely striated. 

 In tenebrlcosus there appears to be a frontal foveola, and the <J has the anal segment 

 strongly striated, but with no fovea at the apex. De Marseul states that it is common 

 in the Jura, fails in Austria, and is replaced in France by lugdunensis. 



It would be somewhat curious if it turn out that we have neither tenebricosus 

 nor fuscipes in Britain. — Id. 



Notes on winter captures of Coleoptera. — An occasional spare hour or two has, 

 since Christmas, produced the following species, among many others, within less than 

 a mile and a half of Sheerness. As I do not keep a collection of Coleoptera, the 

 insects have been sent to my friend Mr. Champion, to whom I am indebted for the 

 names of most of the species. 



In stack-refuse : — Falagria sulcatula, Callicerus ohscurus, Homalota orphana, 

 Bryaxis Waterhoiisii, Hister neglectus, Atomaria munda (by hundreds) and guita 

 (common), Anommatus 12-striatus, Monotonia spinicollis, rufa, and longicollis, Cor- 

 ticaria Wollastoni, Throscus obtiistis (not very rare), ^p/o» Schoenherri (about.twenty 

 specimens, many of which, unfortunately, were badly broken, possibly through having 

 hibernated), A. confiuens and Iceincolle, and Phyllotreta sinuata (one ^ specimen). 

 Trogoplilceus foveolattis, about eight specimens, in company with T. halophilus : Bagotts 

 JaticoUts and incevatus, in flood refuse on the banks of a brackish ditch. Syncalypta 



