10 COLEOPTERA. 



gosus; Anisotoma rugosa, duhia, ovalis, scita, lunicollis, 

 calcarata, brunnea, litura, badia (including some astonish- 

 ing black vars.), and parvula, Cyrtusa minuta (not the 

 smaller Southron minuta of Wat. Cat., which is apparently 

 pauxilla), Liodes orbicularis, Amphicyllis globus pale 

 form, &c. ; and very many of them have occurred in large 

 numbers. 



Dr. Sharp, also, has found many specimens of some of 

 the above species near Dumfries, and has also taken many 

 examples of 4 or 5 species of the rare genus Colon in one 

 day at the same place. 



In the South, we have not been idle in this family; the 

 rare Agaricophagus cephalotes having during the past 

 year fallen to l\lv. "Woilaston and myself near Claygate, to 

 Mr. Champion (2) at Caterham, and to the Rev. Mr. Gorham 

 at Rusper; Anisotoma cinnamomea and grandis to me at 

 Mickleham, and to Mr. Champion at Arundel and Caterham; 

 A. nigrita in profusion in the New Forest to Mr. Champion 

 and Mr. O. Janson, and sparingly at Esher to Dr. Power 

 and myself; A. parvula to Mr. Champion at Caterham and 

 elsewhere, and to Mr. E. A. Waterhouse near Bognor, where 

 Hydnobius strigosus also v/as (for a member of its genus) 

 particularly common, in a most unlikely looking place. 



The difficult genus Meligethes has during the past year 

 been discussed by M. Charles Brisout in L'Abeille, viii, 

 pp. 36 (^" Synopse du genre Meligethes"), who has given a 

 useful dichotomous table of 67 species known to him (ab- 

 stracted, as regards food-plants, &c., of most of our species, 

 by me in Ent. M. M. viii, p. 267). The European species 

 have also been exhaustively treated by Herr Reitter in his 

 " Revision der europiiischen Meligethes-Arteu," a separate 

 publication of the " Yerhandlungen des naturforschenden 

 Vereines in Briinn," Bd. ix, 1871, pp. 133, 6 pis. (supple- 



