171. July. 



The Manual was issued in numbers, No. 29, which contained the description of 

 O. ocellatella, being published in the same cover with No. 30, on May Ist, 1859. 

 Eustace R. Bankes, The Rectory, Corfe Castle : May ^Ist, 1895. 



Scymnus pulchellus. — It may interest Coleopterists to know that I am still 

 taking this rarity off the same ti-ee, and on the same side of the tree from which I 

 took so many specimens last year, as recorded in the Ent. Mo. Mag. I have much 

 pleasure in bearing testimony to the accuracy of a statement made by Dr. Sharp in 

 a communication to myself in August last, viz., " That I need not be afraid of ex- 

 terminating the Scymnus, as by taking it freely the food would increase, and the 

 insect will become more abundant than ever." — Feederick Fox, Coddenham, near 

 Ipswich : June, 1895. 



Coleoptera near Dumfries. — Being out one day during the first week in May 

 collecting Agahus affinis in a shallow marshy place, in the middle of a fir wood 

 much overgrown with long sphagnum, I was most agreeably surprised to find in my 

 net with A. affinis a single specimen of Helophorus tuherculatus. So far as I know, 

 the first specimen found in Scotland was taken by myself in the autumn of 1879 in 

 flood refuse along the banks of the Nith, below Dumfries ; my second specimen, 

 however, is more satisfactory, because I found it at home, so to speak, far removed 

 from any running water whatever. 



I presume the following seven species may be additions to the Solway list, if not 

 to Scotland, namely, Acupalpns exiguus (3), among damp sphagnum ; Lochar moss, 

 Lochrutton Loch, yielded Hydroporus neglectus (1), H. umhrosus (4), Stenus pro- 

 vidus (1), Corymbites metallicus (4), by cutting up tufts of damp moss, Oymnefron 

 villosulum (1), by sweeping the railway banks, Hedohia imperialis (2), also railway 

 banks near Dumfries. 



Also the following species put in an appearance during the month of May : — 

 Anchomenus ericeti, not common, very local, Ccelambus quinquelineatus , this last 

 named species is becoming very scarce, H. rufifrons, not common, also new to 

 Solway, Myrmedonia collaris (4), by cutting up tufts of damp moss, Acidota 

 cruentata (3), Deleaster dUhrous (1), very rare, Salpingus ater (2), beaten from birch, 

 Cryptorhynchus lapathi (4), from old decayed sallow, Qymnetron beccahungce, aXso a 

 few more things which I have not yet identified. — W. Lennon, 11, Brooke Street, 

 Dumfries : June loth, 1895. 



Ccenoscelis (Afomaria) ferruginea, Sahib. — The insect doing duty for this 

 species in Britisli collections should bear the name C. {Atomaria) pallida, WoUaston 

 [Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., xviii, p. 452, t. 9, fig. 1 (1846)]. C. ferruginea. Sahib. 

 (= subdeplanata, Bris.), is larger — 2-3 mm. (as against li-l| mm.) — and has 

 etouter antennae and a more coarsely punctured thorax ; the thorax, moreover, has 

 a sharply defined submarginal carina extending from the base to the apex (in C. 

 pallida the submarginal carina is faint, obliterated in front, and viewed from above 

 it appears to join the margin before tlie apex). C. pallida, WoM. {= Brisouti, 

 Seidl.), was described from specimens found near Cambridge ; it appears to be 

 widely distributed in Europe. I have seen two specimens of C. ferruginea — one 

 kindly communicated by M. Fauvel, the other in the British Museum. — G. C. 

 Champion, Horsell, Woking : April 22nd, 1895. 



