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examination through a lens, the var. quadriguttatus being shiny, and 

 C. pulcliellus dull. In C. puJchellus the thorax is considerably longer 

 than broad, and rugosely punctured, whilst the elytra are very strongly 

 striate, carinate at the basal third, and pubescent. The yellow mark- 

 ings on the elytra are very variable. 



I have examined a great number of the common species, but have 

 only found three or four examples of the type form, C. dermesfoides, 

 Herbst, either this season or in previous visits, so that apparently it 

 is not very common in the district. 



Peebles : June liih, 1906. 



CARDIOPHORUS ERICH SON l, Buyss., IN LUNDY ISLAND. 

 BY NORMAN 11. JOT, M.R.C.S., F.E.S., AND J R. LE B. TOMLIN, M.A., F.E.S. 



It was with the express purpose of adding at least one more 

 species to the list of British Coleoptera that we visited Lundy Island 

 last April, and on the third day of the trip, when we were examining 

 grass tufts on the western cliffs, a black Elaterid was taken, which 

 we immediately recognised as the object of our quest. Subsequently, 

 we spent many hours on the edge and slopes of the cliffs, taking a 

 nice series each, most of the specimens being found under small 

 stones, or at the roots of grass, and we found the species was very 

 active in the hot sunshine. The larva also was not uncommon at the 

 roots of a small dandelion. As our examples did not correspond 

 exactly with the insect standing under the name of Cardiophorus 

 ru/ipes, Goeze, in the British Museum, we sent one of them to 

 Mons. H. de Buysson, who kindly identified it for us as C. erichsoni, 

 Buyss. (=ru/i'pes,'Ev.), 3, species he has separated from C. rujlpes, 

 Goeze, mainly on account of its brown (instead of grey or black) 

 pubescence, the absence of a shining oblique fascia across the elytra, 

 and the less metallic reflection. G. erichsoni has been taken in 

 France, Germany, Austria, and liussia, and occurs on pines at the 

 end of May and the beginning of June, the larva probably feeding on 

 oak or pine bark. It is very interesting to find an insect of this kind 

 on Lundy, but it may be observed that Melanotus ruftpes, Herbst, is 

 also included in Wollaston's local list, and some elytra we found 

 among grass evidently belong to this latter species. In historical 

 times Lundy has always been quite treeless, indeed, there are not 

 many places on the island where there is sufficient depth of soil for 



