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broiizy-greeii species of Thanasimm, AuHcus, Lemidea, and Eleale, 

 and by tlie more variegated forms of ZenitJiicola, Scrohiger, Stigma- 

 Hum, Cleromorpha, &c. Tlie brilliant metallic-green species of the 

 genus Atractus are the most conspicuous among the Heteromera, and 

 Tanychilus, Allecida, Ananca, Pseudolycus, Zonifis, and other more 

 soberly coloured forms of this section abound, while Mordella is 

 represented by a large number of species, some of considerable size, 

 and as active as they always are. Some weevils, such as Oxyops, 

 Raplonyx, &c., are constantly found on the AngopJwra, and the hand- 

 some shining yellow and black Sagrid, with greatly enlarged hind 

 femora, Mecynodera coxalgica, Bdv., is a common and conspicuous 



species. 



It will easily be seen by the foregoing remarks, how fully and 

 pleasantly the collector is occupied ''uring the comparatively brief 

 period in which these flowers are in their prime, and how copious an 

 Entomological harvest may be gathered in this most interesting 

 locality. With the coming of the new year, the great bulk of the 

 blossom is over, and though fairly productive bushes of Leptos- 

 permum may occasionally be met with even late in February, the best 

 season for Coleoptera may be regarded as at an end. 



" Aorangi," Lonsdale Eoad, 



Sumraertown, Oxford : 

 January, 1906. 



LATHEOBIUM LMVIPENNE, Heer : AN ADDITION TO THE 

 BRITISH LIST OF COLEOPTERA. 



BY W. E. SHAEP, F.E.S. 



In August last I captured in a sandpit near Oxted a red wing- 

 cased Lathrobium, which I imagined at the time to be i. angustatum. 

 More careful scrutiny, however, after the insect was set, dispelled 

 this belief, and I found it impossible with certainty to refer the 

 specimen to any of our British members of the group, I owe to 

 Mr. E. A. Newbery, who saw the beetle, the suggestion that it might 

 be L. Icevipenne, Heer, and this identification has been confirmed by 

 Herr L. Ganglbauer, to whom I submitted the specimen. 



The red wing-cased Lathrohia can perhaps hardly be considered 

 one of the easiest groups of the StapliylinidcB, and I should not be 

 surprised if the present species existed in British collections under 

 some other name. 



