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The genus PHLCEOBIUM, Dej., as in Megarthrus, has the apical joint only of its 

 antenna incrassate, though scareely so evidently as in the majority of the species 

 of the latter : and the keel of the 2nd abdom. segment is sharper than in Protinus. 

 Its single species, P. chjpeatum, Miill., Er., Kr., is at once to be known by its 

 possessing a single oceUus (or polished round prominence resembling an ocellus) 

 in the middle of the vertex, between the true eyes. It somewhat resembles a very 

 long and narrow specimen of M. hemipterus, with the head, in petto, of a 8carab(Bus, 

 the anterior margin being strongly produced, and widely hollowed out in the 

 middle. It averages li lin. in length, and is very duU, strongly punctured, and 

 entirely testaceous, except the eyes and antennae, which (barring the apical, and 

 sometimes the basal, joint) are pitchy -black. It is not uncommon in cut grass, &c. 



In the male the middle and hinder femora and tibiaj are slightly thickened, the 

 latter being curved, and, as it were, constricted on the inner side just below the 

 middle. 



It appears to have escaped the observation of Erichson and Kraatz (Thomson 

 not recording the species), and possibly for the reason above suggested with regard 

 to the same characters in M. hemipterus, that in the male of this insect the apical 

 segment itself has an evident longitudinal groove, the penult, segment has an 

 angular emargination, the sides of which are thickened and elevated, so that the 

 groove of the apical segment is, as it were, carried on to the penult, segment, 

 and the ante-penult, segment is deeply hollowed out in a semicircular way for its 

 entire width.— E. C. Eye, 7, Park Field, Putney, S.W,, January, 1868. 



Notes on Coleoptera at Barmouth, ^c. — Last August I bred a considerable 

 number of Cryptarcha strigata, from a couple of large pear-shaped pufiF-baUs, found 

 on flat sandy pastures near the coast at Barmouth. This seems to be a very 

 curious locality for the insect, which usually occurs under bark, at sap, or in Cossus- 

 burrows, and is generally considered a tree-species. I also took commonly, in 

 small eilvery-grey pufl'-balls, in similar sandy places, the larvae of Dorcatoma 

 hovistcB, from which I bred a good series of the perfect insect. On the sand-hills 

 themselves I found the usual coast beetles commonly ; e. g., Cicindela hyirida, 

 Anomala (one of the green var.), Microzoum, Phaleria, Sapriwus maritimus, Oxytehts 

 maritimiis, Aleochara obscurella, &o. 



On Chatmoss I found a pair of the usually Uttoreal Philonthus umhratilis, at 

 the sap exuding from a freshly-cut fir-stump ; and in October I took a pair of 

 Karpalus rwpicola on muddy deposits of the Mersey, two or three miles from 

 Manchester, and far from any chalk. — J. Kidson Taylor, Thorn Cottage, Lime 

 Grove, Longsight, Manchester, 1st January, 1868. 



Captures of Lepidoptera in the Isle of Wight. — The season of 1867 is past, and 

 I can aver that insects here have not been nearly so plentiful as in 1866. The 

 following remarks may not be uninteresting. Sallows were particularly unpro- 

 ductive, although I worked very hard at them from February 23rd to April 1st. 

 I could take nothing but common species, T. miniosa being the best. June pro- 

 duced several dozens of M. Cinxia, L. Adonis, and A. hictuosa. Autumn turned out 

 more favourable. C. Edusa was plentiful, and I took two fine specimens of the 

 var. Helice. On August 21st I found eggs of Edusa, which hatched five days after- 



