48 • I I'ebru.iry, 



six species of Alsuonota (four of which are British) may be grouped by their 

 respective male characters : — 



a. — Sixth dorsal segment of the abdomen simple... 



aurantiaca, Fauv. ; atricapilla, Rey ; gracilenta, Er. 



h. — Sixth dorsal segment of the abdomen unituberculate... 



Kiesenwetteri, Kr. ; Icsviceps, Bris. 



c. — Sixth dorsal segment of the abdomen bituberculate... e^re^ia, Rye. 



M. Fauvel has also communicated a specimen of A. Kiesenwetteri, and remarks 



that the species will almost certainly be found in England ; he has found it in 



various localities in France. — Id. 



Nebria complanata and other Coleoptera at Tenhy. — During the greater part of 

 October last, H.M.S. "Northampton" was in Milford Haven; and Tenby being 

 within easy reach, I spent three or four days very pleasantly in hunting for 

 Coleoptera on the fine sand-hills to the westward of that very pretty little seaside 

 town. Nebria complanata, which was one of my principal quests, turned up 

 directly I looked for it, and in unexpected numbers, as I had hitherto supposed it to 

 be quite a rarity at Tenby (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxii, p. 139). For about half a 

 mile along the sandy beach it occurred under all sorts of articles — old clothes, pieces 

 of matting, wood and tin, cut Marram-grass, and even pieces of newspaper — but it 

 seemed to be strictly confined to the beach proper, as not a single specimen could be 

 found more than a dozen yards above high-water mark. The beetle appears to be 

 entirely nocturnal in its habits, and to seek shelter during the day under the first 

 object which presents itself; as on my second visit, after an interval of two days, the 

 same " traps " produced an even more plentiful supply than at first, and this was 

 the case on subsequent occasions. When disturbed, it runs with great speed over 

 the sand ; and the dead and dismembered bodies of sundry examples, and the 

 mutilated condition of a good many living ones, testified to its savage and canni- 

 balistic nature. 



Turning stones on the sand-hills yielded a single specimen of Sarpalus 

 melancholicus (of which rare species I obtained several on the Chesil Bank, in July 

 last), in company with a rather large form of H. anxius, Dichirotrichus obsoletus, 

 Amara bifrons and ovata, Bembidium rufescens, and Calathus Jlavipes, the last- 

 mentioned being much the commonest Carabideous beetle present, and occurring in 

 large numbers. Helops pallidus was by no means rare at the I'oots of various plants 

 close to the shore, being often found buried several inches deep in the sand, in 

 company with a very pale form of Phaleria cadaverina, strikingly different from the 

 strongly-marked examples of this insect occurring at Whitsand Bay, near Plymouth. 

 Psylliodes marcida abounded on its favourite CaJcile maritima, and the little Meli- 

 gethes exilis occurred freely in one spot in the yellow flowers of Leontodon (^Thrincia) 

 hirta ; Bledius opacus was met with, sparingly, in a damp spot, and Aleochara lata, 

 in carrion. Anomala Frischii, Carcinops minima, Saprinus rugifrons and mari- 

 timus, and Necrodes littoralis, were found walking about on the bare sand ; a few 

 days previously I had met with the Necrodes in very large numbers, in a dead 

 "Angler-fish" {Lophius piscatorius) , on the beach at Holyhead. The very last 

 beetle which I bottled was a rather large Anisotoma, which puzzled both Mr. 

 Champion and myself for some time, but it proved eventually to be a ? A. Triepkei, 

 Tenby being a new locality for this still rare species. 



