4 COLEOPTERA. 



Gorliam has also detected our blind Adelops in a bees' 

 nest at Staple. 



Messrs. Morley and Broadliurst have recorded from the 

 Manchester district, amongst other things, Gymnusa brevi- 

 collis and varieyata, Acidota cruentata, Choleva spadicea, 

 Agathidium conveocum, Homalium Allardi and exiguiim^ 

 Homalota autumnalis and ereiyiita, and Bolitobius incli- 

 7ians ; and Mr, J. Ray Hardy (who notes the Irish Tachy- 

 'porus ohtusus var. nitidicollis from Sherwood) has on Chat- 

 moss found in fungus the rare Cryptophagus ruficornis, 

 Stephens (redescribed by me in Ent. Mo. Mag. ix, p. 38). 

 Mr. J. Chappell, another w^ell known Manchester entomo- 

 logist, has been so lucky as to find several specimens of 

 Lymexylon navale (figured on our Frontispiece), apparently 

 in most of its stages, in oak, in Dunham Park (this species 

 is not included in Dr. Sharp's Catalogue); and recently the 

 i-are Heterothops prcBvius has occurred to Messrs. Morley 

 and Hardy near Manchester. 



Mr. Wollaston has described the habits of the beetles oc- 

 curring at Slapton Ley, S. Devon, conspicuous among them 

 being an apparently new species of Scojyceus, Hydroporus 

 minutissim us as before, Lithocharis ripicola, apeculiar race of 

 Cephennium thoracicum, a small form of Scydmcenus scutel- 

 laris (recorded as pusillus), PcBderus fnscipes and Philon- 

 thns piinctus, — the two last mentioned occurring in numbers. 



Engrossed in the study of the Trichopterygia, Mr. 

 Matthews has had no time to devote to the capture of ordi- 

 nary British species; but he writes to me that he has taken 

 a few more Throscus carinifrons, near Chislehurst (as be- 

 fore), and another specimen of Cryphalus picece. 



Teretrius picipes, Cryptophagus serratus, 3Ionotoma 

 A-foveolata, and Lyctus hrunneus (on a fence) have been 

 found at Peckham by Mr. Marsh; the latter rarity also was 

 once taken in flood refuse of the River Lea by Mr. Champion. 



