i gg [ December, 



Note on Coleoptera in Cheshire. — In January, in the burrows of Hylurgus 

 piniperda, I met with a single specimen of Haplocnemus inypressus. This must be 

 a rare species near Bowdon, as I have met with but three others during the last 

 few years, and these were beaten out of Scotch firs in June. Hlgialia sahuleti 

 occurred in sandy places on the banks of the River Bollen, and also in its tributary 

 the Birkin ; and in the same places, under decayed vegetation, I have taken 

 some fine specimens of Tropiphorus mercurialis. Mater halteatus was exceedingly 

 abundant on birch trees at Carrington Moss, about the end of June. Phlcsotrya 

 rufipes, 1 S and 2 $ , superb specimens, I met with in August, on a felled beech 

 tree in Durham Park ; along with them I took several specimens oi Abdera quadri- 

 fasciata and Melasis buprestoides. — E. S. Edlkston, Bowdon, Cheshire, November 

 4th, 1867. 



Locality for Otiorhynchus maurus. — I captured about a dozen specimens of this 

 local species on Skiddaw, in July. — Id. 



Boreus hyemalia near Croydon. — If it be of sufiicient importance, it may be 

 noted that on the 3rd instant I found a male and female of this singular insect in 

 moss growing on the ground under furze-bushes at Shirley, near Croydon. The 

 bodies were pale greenish-yellow, which colour, according to Dalman (as quoted by 

 Westwood), would indicate that the creatures are immature; yet they were very 

 lively, and jumped about like Halticce. — J. W. Douglas, Lee, 8th November, 1867. 



[Mr. Scott has since taken a ? at West Wickham. Through the liberality of 

 tho captors all three specimens are now in my collection. — E. McL.] 



Note on Platymischus dilatatus, Westw. ? . — The S only of this curious little 

 insect has been hitherto observed. Finding it to be common among sea-weed on 

 this coast, I have made it my business to unearth the other sex, and have at last, 

 I firmly believe, succeeded. Although I have never seen the sexes in coitu, yet 

 the form which I wish here to introduce so exactly corresponds (barring sexual 

 difierences) with the well-known male, that, taking into considei*ation their peculiar 

 habitat, and other circumstances hereinafter mentioned, I feel no doubt as to the 

 correctness of my conclusion. Both sexes are abundant here, but not equally so at 

 the same time. In the early spring the ? appears in great numbers, while the (J 

 is only to be found sparingly. At the present time (Oct. 23) the case is exactly 

 reversed. In order to complete the generic diagnosis, I have drawn up a new 

 description, including both sexes. 



Platymischus, Westw., Introd. vol. 2, Synops. p. 75 ; Forst., Hym. Stud., 2, 

 p. 121, 123 ; Halid., Nat. Hist. Review, vol. 4, p. 167. 



Antennce (? 14-articulat39, scapointus fortiter dilatato, fomicato, sub-triangulo, 

 art° 3° 2° longiore, oblique inserto, artt. 4 — 9 sub-aequalibus, sub-globosis, 10 — 14 

 gradatim increscentibus, ult° oblongo : ? 12-articulat^, scapo lineari, quai-tam 

 partem totius membri constituente, art° 2° 3° longiore, 4 — 8 sub-aequalibus, sub- 

 globosis, 9 — 12 clavam formantibus, art° ult° maximo, oblongo. Abdomen S apice 

 sub-truncatum ; ? paulo longius, apice rotundatum, deinde abrupte apiculatum. — 

 3 ? Prothorax depressus, cum mesothorace arete coalitus, sutura transversa 

 fere obsoleta ; parapsidum suturas nullae ; metathorax vix declivis, et cum petiole 

 brevi, crasso, dense toraentosus. Scutellum deplanatum, vix conspicuum, fovea 

 basali nulla. Ocelli nulli. Alse nulte. Pedes breviores quam Diapriis ; femora 

 incrassata ; tarsorum articulus ultimus leviter dilatatus. 



P. dilatatus, Westw., 1. c, vol. 1, frontisp. fig. 5: cf. Wailes, Berl. ent. 

 Zeits. 1859, vol. 3, p. 98; Walk., Ent. Mag., vol. 2, p. 117. 



P. niger, nitidus, capite sub-depresso, thorace paulo latiore, supra parcius 



