142 THE entomologist's record. 



and notes to the Ent. Mo. Maij. In his first note {loc. cit., p. 16), 

 on the Meloid-genus Honiia and its allies, he deals with a remarkable 

 Sitarid, bred Irom pupa? found in the cells of an Anthnphora at 

 Mogador, IMorocco, belonging to a newly described genus Allciiclesa- 

 lazaria, Escalera, which is apparently closely allied to the American 

 genus Hornia, Riley. 



In a second note, entitled " Note on the Methods used to obtain 

 minute blind Stai'hi/linidae" {Inc. cit., p. 138), Mr. Champion gives a 

 description of the methods employed by Signor Dodero to obtain the 

 minute blind Staphylinidae which live in the dry earth at the foot of 

 old tree trunks, or beneath deeply embedded boulders. 



In a third note {loc. cit., p. 214) Mr. Champion states that he has 

 come to the conclusion that the foodplant of Xauoji/n/cs i/racilis, Redt., 

 is water purslane {Pe/dis portula). 



In an article entitled " A Trip to Sardinia in 1910 " {loc. cit., 

 p. 219), Mr. Champion gives a strikingly interesting account of a 

 collecting tiip in Sardinia with MM. Dodero and Solari, which ex- 

 tended from May 27th to June 19th. A number of interesting species 

 of Coleoptera were taken. The whole article is one of great interest. 



Lastly, in a note entitled "Note on the Forms of Galeruca tanaceii 

 L., occurring in Britain " {loc. cit., p. 258), Mr. Champion says that 

 there is a possibility that G. pomonae. Scop., which has a black aber- 

 ration anthracina, Weise, may occur in this country, its foodplants 

 being Centanrea jacea and its allies, and Knautia arvotsis. 



In the October issue of the Knt. Mo. Maij., p. 241, Mr. J. R. le B. 

 Tomlin and Mr. W. E. Sharp began a series of notes on the British 

 species of Lo»///7fl/'.s;/.s, Latr. The authors point out that this genus 

 remains to coleopterists perhaps the most confused in synonymy and 

 bewildering in specific differentiation of all the genera of the Coleop- 

 tera. They discuss the reasons for this state of things, and point out 

 how characters which are usually so valuable in Coleoptera are in this 

 genus quite unreliable. To assist in the discrimination of the species, 

 they divide the genus into six sections. Two of these sections, viz., 

 those which contain («) unicolorous black species, and {b) black species 

 with distinct testaceous or reddish markings are dealt with in the 

 paper as far as it was published at the close of the year. Two changes 

 in synonymy are made : — Loivjitan^ns pide.r, Schr., should be known 

 as L. oblitcraUdi, Rosenh. ; and L. ater, F., should be known 

 as L. panudiis, Payk. The species L. ni(ier, Koch, is dropped entirely. 

 If one may form a judgment from the portion of these notes which has 

 so far been published, it is quite evident that the genus LoniiitarsKn, 

 which has hitherto been much neglected by coleopterists, owing to the 

 difficulty of identifying species, will in the future prove a much more 

 interesting genus for the field worker. Though no amount of descrip- 

 tion will make this puzzling genus an easy one, still the removal from 

 our lists of mere names will go a long way towards reducing the diffi- 

 culties which have hitherto beset the coleopterist who has attempted to 

 work out the names of his captures. 



Mr. Tomlin has published a further instalment of his " List 

 of Coleoptera found in Herefordshire," No. 4 {loc. cit., p. 271). The 

 new list includes a considerable number of species new to the 

 county. 



Mr. J. H. Keys in an article entitled " Jiarypithes dupUcatas, n. sp., 



