Vrtrt [December, 



first, and the sides of the thorax more rounded. It differs from the second in not 

 having the frontal fovea widened in front, and in having the elytra even more 

 strongly crenate-striate than in that species. L. 3.7 mill. Angleterre (Pandelle')." 

 Dr. Sharp regards both B.planicollis and R. strigifrons as varieties of H. csneipennis, 

 and the above would seem to be another variety ; it is, however, worth recording, 

 and may be identified from the above notice by entomologists who may have it 

 among their Eelophori. — W. "W. Fowlee, Lincoln : Octoher 2Qth, 1884. 



Captures of Coleoptera near Lincoln.— On October 23rd, in company with Mr. 

 J. J. Walker, I went to Langworth Wood, about eight miles from Lincoln, for two 

 or three hours' collecting. This wood is chiefly known to Entomologists as one of 

 the localities for Eesperia paniscus,^h\c\i has been fairly abundant this year during 

 the end of May and beginning of June. The best beetle we took was Epurcea par- 

 viila, of which we beat about two dozen from faggots, from which we also obtained 

 Bradycellus placidus, Litargus bifasciatus, Alexia pilifera, Conurus immaeulatus, 

 and Ocalea castanea in some numbers ; I have never before found this widely dis- 

 tributed insect plentiful in any one .spot ; by sweeping we obtained Erirhinvs salicis 

 "and Batophila riibi, and by shaking moss Mniophila viuscorum, Agathidinm nigri- 

 nuni, Coeliodes fiiliginosus, Myll(Bna brevicornis, and Bytkinus puncticGllis. Among 

 other beetles I have at different times taken in this Wood are the following : Choleva 

 spadicea, Amphicyilis globus, Meligethes erythropi(,s and viduatus, Scaphidema 

 aneum, Corymb lies pectinicornis, Trachys minuius, Agapantlda lineatocollis, Rhyti- 

 dosomus globulus, RhyncMtes pubescens, Coeliodes subrufus, EUeschus bipunctatus, 

 CeuthorhyncJms marginatus, Apoderus coryli. Thy amis patruelis, and Lina longi- \ 

 collis, the latter abundant on sallows in all stages of development. On May 24th j 

 I took a very fine pair of Aleochara rujlcornis ; the female occurred on some long | 

 grass in a broad ride, and after an hour's fruitless sweeping for further specimens, I ". 

 came back to the same spot and swept the male off evidently the same place where f 

 the female was taken. i 



In Nocton Wood, near Lincoln, I found last year, on May 19th, several speci- 

 mens of Symbiotes laius and Mycetophagus populi in an old stump, accompanied by 

 Cis bidentatus in some numbers ; Gyrophcena affinis was common in fungi. 



In flood rubbish near the town I have taken Beinopsis erosa, Ilyobates nigri- 

 collis, Trogophloeus halophilus, Lathrobium longulum, Anisotoma litura, Rhinonchua 

 inconspectus and bruchoides, and many others. 



Saperda carcharias occurs close to the town, and Ocypus fuscatus, Oxypoda 

 nigrina, PhlcBocharis subtilissima, Trichopteryx longula, and Psylliodes picina may 

 be added to the above list. 



The water beetles are singularly poor for a fen district, as far as I have worked 9 

 them, which is, certainly, very little ; not one rare species has turned up, the best i 

 that I have found being Liopterus agilis. — Id. : 



Idiocerus distinguendus, KirscJib., = I. cognatus, Fieb.—AXthowgh. the accessible 

 evidence warranted the conclusion stated by me, at p. 127 ante, that Kirschbaum's 

 name for this species had priority over that given by Fieber, it yet appears that I 

 was in error, for Dr. Franz Low, of Vienna, who at my request has kindly referred 

 to the works in which the respective descriptions were published, informs me that i *ra 

 Fieber had priority of publication : the name to be adopted is therefore /. cognatus, 

 Fieb.— J. W. Douglas, Lewisham : October Zlst, 1884. 



