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New British Homalium. — I have great pleasure in recording the capture of 
Hotnalium Heerii, Heer, 571, a species new to Britain. 
This insect ia very closely allied to H. iojpterum, but presents the following 
distinctive characteristics. It is a little smaller and more linear ; the thorax is 
rather more contracted behind, and more invariably bi-foveolate, and the punctua- 
tion of the head, thorax, and elytra, is much closer than in iopterum, while in the 
latter species it is much deeper than in Heerii. 
Heer, in his description, omits to remark on the closeness of the punctuation of 
Heerii, though he says that that insect is punctured " minus profunde" than 
lucidum (iopterum., Steph.), and does not notice its thoracic fovese, — but the latter 
is a variable character. 
I took this insect, not uncommonly, from fungi on rotten birch trees near Loch 
Rannoch, in July of this year. — Id. 
New British EpurcEa. — I have lately met with Epurosa variegata, Herbst 
(Er., 146), an insect new to Britain. 
This species is hkened to E. ohsoleta by Erichson. It is, however, a little 
smaller, rather broader, and less depressed. Its colour is a full red ; antennae 
concolorous with the elytra, having the apical joint of the club slightly narrower 
than the two preceding ; thorax short and broad, rounded at the sides, but con- 
tracted in the hinder fourth part, very widely margined, straighter behind than in 
ohsoleta, with the hinder angles somewhat acutely produced ; elytra broadly mar- 
gined, with a large dark brown central spot, and the apex generally dark. 
Erichson describes the joints of the club of the antennse as of equal size, and 
fails to notice that the thorax is not quite regularly rounded at the sides, but is 
rather more contracted behind than the mere word " rounded" would imply ; 
otherwise his description of E. variegata and my specimens agree. 
I took four examples of this insect, from fungi on rotten birch trees, near Loch 
Rannoch, in Perthshire, in July this year. — Id. 
Notes on Scotch Coleoptcra. — The following account of my captures in North 
Perthshire, in July of this year, may prove not uninteresting to some readers of 
the Magazine. Those who have read Mr. Rye's " Notes on Coleoptera at Loch 
Rannoch," and observed that I joined him " after a time," will scarcely expect a 
good report, especially if they know anything of that gentleman's exhaustive 
method of collecting. I can add few to the list of captures in the forest, as I had 
to walk miles in search of the few unbarked logs that I found, and they were not, 
when detected, of the best quality, or, I suppose, they would not have been left. 
I obtained, in much smaller numbers, several of the species mentioned by Mr. Rye 
as occurring in the forest, including three specimens of Homalota fusco-femorata, 
and also, from cracks in the stumps of felled fir trees, Ischnoglossa corticaUs, 
Scydmcenus exilis, and Euplectus hicolor. In the forest one Agathidium rhinoceros, 
Sharp, also occurred (under bark of a log), and Quedius lateralis; and, when I 
sugared there for Lepidoptera, Dromius agilis and Carabus glahratus were frequent 
visitors at the banquet, preceded, before dusk, on old sugar,by numbers of Cetonia 
cenea. 
