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"animals of a coleopteric form, which bito and tear each other with continued 
" fury. It is easy to comprehend the potato disease when such an intestine warfare 
" is raging.' " 
It is a pity that this paragraph did not appear before the publication of the 
Ent. Annual for 1867 ; since a portion of it, viz., " in this small space can he detected 
some 200 * * a/nimals of a coleopteric form," might have been utilized as a 
motto for that little volume, instead of the Tupperian quotation. The concluding 
part of the same sentence might, also, be considered as an exaggeration of those 
amantimn irm which so often (alas !) disturb the entomologist's mind. — Id. 
Notes on Coleoptera from the French " Amiales," &c. — M. Lucas, in the last 
trimestre of the Ann. Soo. Ent. Fr., p. 442, records the capture, in the wooded 
district near Harfleur, of very bright and light-coloured specimens of Oeotrupes 
veriialis, with the thorax either impunctate, or, at most, only slightly punctulated 
on the disc. On the sandy flats of Lion-sur-Mer he finds the ordinary dark 
specimens, with distinctly and densely punctured thorax ; and enquires whether 
this variation be owing to the conditions attending the different localities. M. 
Grenier appears to have found the brilliant form inland, far from the sea. From 
the publication of such a trivial note in the French " Annales," and from M. Lucas' 
terming the bright insect a very curious variety, which he has only found in that 
part of Normandy, I presume that these two forms, so long famihar to Bi-itish 
Coleopterists, and even specifically separated by Haworth, Stephens, and others, 
are now for the first time known to French Entomologists. Haworth's Icevis, 
according to Stephens' description, can only be considered as a synonym of 
vemalis, as in it the thorax is thickly and coarsely punctured ; Stephens' vernalis 
being the form with very obsoletely punctured thorax. I have taken both vars. 
on Wimbledon Common ; and Mr. Sharp recently found a very large number of 
the insect with punctured thorax near Malvern, many of which were of extra- 
ordinary brilliancy. 
M. Chaa. Brisout de Barueville, at p. 356 of the same part, in his list of new 
Coleoptera from the Spanish excm-sion of the society, describes a Homalota (H. 
glaeialis) which, from its habitat and characters, must be very close to the 
previously described H. eremita, mihi ; it seems, however, to diSer from the latter 
chiefly in its obscure pubescence, and (compared with H. tibialis) its narrower 
thorax. It is, also, apparently of considerably less size than H. eremita. 
In the '* Catalogue des CoUopteres de I'Alsace ,et des Vosges," by Messrs. 
Wencker and Silberman (reviewed in " I'Abeille," Vol. IV., 1867, xlix.), M. Chaa. 
Brisout describes (p. 131) Cewthorhynchus versicolor, which Mr. Crotch has informed 
us is the insect known to us hitherto as C. quercicola ; and also C. e^q^horbice, 
which, on the same authority, represents our C cruw. 
At p. 53 of the last-mentioned journal, M. de Marseul gives translations of the 
diagnoses of M. Kutschera's new species of Halticidw, from the defunct Wiener Ent. 
Monatschrift, including those described from British specimens, and already noticed 
in these columns by Mr. C. Waterhouse ; and, at p. 283, M. Allard, in his revision 
of the same family, gives full characters for the Plectroscelis, hitherto known to us 
as Sahlhergi (and abundant in marshy places on Wimbledon Common), but which, 
as pointed out in another place, is the sKbcmvdea of Kutschera (Wien. Mouat, 1864, 
346, 27). M. Allard, does not, however, note the difference in the length of the 
antennae. — Id. 
