.885., ^gg 



Q-nathoncus rotundatus, Margate; Olibrus oblongus, Pegwell and Birchington, 

 abundantly ; Fsammoechus hipunctatus, Birchington, commonly ; Telmatophilus 

 hrevicollis (2), Birchington ; Monotonia spinicollis, Kingsgate ; Corticaria fulva 

 and C. curta, Birchington ; C. Wollastoni,'Kiugsg&te ; Ueterocerus ohsoletus, Pegwell, 

 common ; Aphodius porcus, Kingsgate ; Athous difformis, S. Peter's, three by 

 sweeping at dusk ; Meloe cicatricosa (6), Margate and S. Peter's; Trachyphlceus 

 alternans, Birchington ; Tanymecus palliattis, Pegwell, common, but exceedingly 

 local; Plinthus caliginosus, Kingsgate; Hypera julini (2), Pegwell, bred from 

 cocoons found in sweep-net ; Tychius lineatulus, Kingsgate, commonly ; Ceuthor- 

 rhynchideus frontalis (2), Kingsgate ; Phytobius velatus and P. leucogaster, Pegwell 

 and Birchington, not uncommonly ; Hcemonia Curtisi (1) and Coccinella l9-punctata, 

 Birchington, commonly ; Coc. mutabilis (7) and C. labilis (1) Kingsgate ; Scymnus 

 Blulsanti, Pegwell ; Coccidula scutellata, Pegwell and Birchington, abundantly. 



On the 2nd inst., I again took Bathyscia Wollastoni, eight specimens in all, in 

 the same manner as before. This is the more curious, inasmuch as the piece of 

 ground from which I took them was dug for the first time this year, and the beetles 

 must presumably have travelled for some little distance, in order to reach the potatoes. 



Subsequently to my note upon the subject {cf. ante, p. 138), Actidium coarctatum 

 occurred to me in even greater profusion ; I took upon one occasion 133 specimens 

 from about an egg-cupful of shakings, with it were a few Ptilium foveolatum, 

 Nephanes titan, &c.— Theodoee Wood, Freeman Lodge, S. Peter's, Kent : Novem- 

 ber Uh, 1885. 



Soronia punctatissima and grisea, Sfc. — In the " Revue d'Entomologie " for this 

 year, Nos. 4 and 5, there are several- notes on distinction between closely allied 

 Coleoptera by M. des Gozis, some of which are likely to be of use to British 

 Coleopterists ; one of these notes relates to the two species of Soronia : as a rule, 

 S. punctatissima is very easy to distinguish from S. grisea by its larger size ; smal- 

 ler specimens, however, are of common occurrence, and may easily be confounded 

 v^ith larger specimens of the kindred species ; even although it is quite true that 

 S. punctatissima is a broader and more convex insect, yet practically it will be found 

 that it is occasionally difficult to distinguish some specimens. M. des Gozis points 

 out the following characters : in S. punctatissima the black markings on the elytra, 

 a little behind the middle, are interrupted by a wavy yellowish band ; this yellowish 

 band or fascia is succeeded by a dark band, which is interrupted at the suture, a 

 space near the suture remaining testaceous ; in S. grisea these markings are just the 

 same, but the hinder dark band is not interrupted, and covers the whole sutural 

 space. I have tested this difference on some doubtful specimens, and find that in 

 mature specimens it is a very great help ; in the case of slightly immature specimens 

 it does not seem to be so trustworthy, and, at all events, it must be regarded merely 

 as an auxiliary character. 



Aphodius fastens &nd fimetarius are two insects that are perpetually giving rise 

 to confusion, although they may easily be separated by the colour of the apex of the 

 abdomen, which is red in foetens, and black mfimetarius M. des Gozis, however, 

 says that a more convenient character is presented by the apical region of the elytra, 

 which infatens is finely punctured, but is still smooth and shining, and differs in no 

 respect from the interstices on the disc ; mfimetarius, however, it is rugose and dull. 



