NOTKS UN THK (iKNUS COLEOPHORA. 187 



A case received from Mv. Sich, and taken at Chiswick, was 

 opened on June 18th, 1901, and found to contain a pupa. Unfor- 

 tunately it was damaged in the process. 



At the present time, June 2bth, I have a few cases of this species 

 j^iven me by Mr. R. A. H. Priske. who found them a week or so ago 

 near the shore at Sidmouth, S. Dorset, on bramble and Hemp 

 Agrimony, but he saw no thistles near. The Hemp Agrimony had 

 l)een well blotched, apparently by many larv«, but he was only able to 

 find seven cases. The bramble had only served as a perch either for 

 pupation or for ecdysis. 



CoLKOPHORA NIGRICELLA (V) (a FURTHER NOTE). 



On May yth, 1904, at Catford, I met with a case on hawthorn with 

 which I was unacquainted. It was a small, straight, delicate case, 

 clean brown in colour, with a mouth so oblique as to bring the case almost 

 prone on the leaf. The anal end had three valves, and there was a keel 

 on the lower side of the case moderately well developed at the anal end. 

 The larva fastened up its case on May 10th, probably for change of 

 skin, as on May 14th it was feeding again, and fed on slowly till May 

 Wth, but did not enlarge its case, and as no imago emerged I was 

 unable to identify the species. I did not think it was an aberrant case 

 of ( '. iii(/ricella, from the great obliquity of the mouth, the smooth 

 texture, the light colour, and the general form and shape. 



From a case found in May, 1906, among a number of C iiiiiriceUu 

 of i)lder growth, I am inclined to think that the above was only a case 

 of that species, probably a belated young case, the first possibly after 

 the winter curved case, with the mouth-opening much more oblique 

 than normallv. 



Longitarsns plantajfo=niaritimus, sp. nov. A Coleopteron new to 



Science. 



By HEKEWAHD C. DOLLMAN. F.E.S. 



Typj: si'Eci.MEN : ~ Oblong-ovate, strongly convex, deep black, shining; 

 antennnp long, thickened towards apex, penultimate joints fully twice as long as 

 broad, black, with the basal joints (1-5) deep red-brown; thorax moderately 

 .shining, entirely deep-black, punctured closely with a coarse and somewhat con- 

 Huent punctuation ; winged ; elytra at bases wider than thorax, plainly widened 

 behind, convex, deep-black, the liunieral callosity well developed and very shining, 

 ve)'y strongly, coarsely and closely punctured; pygidium exposed, deeply punc- 

 tured ; legs deep brown ; femora nearly black (posterior femora quite black), 

 anterior and intermediate knees, and all the tarsi red-brown. Length, '2| mm. 



The Type spciciraen taken at Gravesend on I'lantaijo nian'tima, 

 May 5th, 1912. 



This species is most closely allied to /-. nu^er, Koch, but is abun- 

 dantly distinct therefrom. I have taken considerable trouble to satisfy 

 myself that it was not Koch's species, referring to the original 

 description (/-w/f. Heft. II., p. 57, 1803), to the full account and key 

 of Weise in Imcctev DenUcldands, vi., p. 939 (1893), and other works, 

 besides having at my disposal continental exponents of L. ni(jcy, Koch, 

 which latter fully agree with the various descriptions of the species. 



The most easily observed difterentia are its considerably larger 

 size, and the much darker coloration of the legs (those of T.. 

 nifirr being, with the exception of the femora, light testaceous- red). 



