NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1872. 13 



considers the previously published accouut of Vou Gernet 

 (Hora3 Soc. Eut. Rossicas, vi, 1868) to belong to an insect of 

 of another genus {ibid. p. 196 et seq.); and of Hypera 

 polygoni, found on Lychnis vespertina^ by Mr. C. G. Barrett, 

 {ibid. p. 205). 



The larva of Clythra ^-punctata is described with its 

 case (which is not hairy), by Mr. R. Hislop, ibid. p. 269; 

 who has also (/. c, ix, p. 39) remarked the occurrence of the 

 larva of Magdalinus carbonarius in birch. 



The habits of A/utsjns macidata have been observed by 

 Mr. Albert MllUer, who has bred that species from woody 

 excrescences on the trunks of birch trees. 



A small race of Lebia cJiIorocephala, from Shirley, re- 

 ferred by myself in 1868 to chrysocephala, Motsch., is evi- 

 dently the same as that recognized by Baron Chaudoir (Bull, 

 Mosc. xliii.) as Motschoulsky's insect, and as a var. o^chloro- 

 cephala. 



Cryptophagtis punctipennis^ Brisout (not always smaller 

 than pilosus)^ with Atomaria badia and fumata, have re- 

 ceived further corroboration as British ; but the insect 

 brought forward by me as possiblj^ the Corticaria obscura 

 of Brisout is considered by that author to be possibly longi- 

 collis^ Thoms., an opinion in which I cannot agree. 



The following observations have been published by myself 

 in Ent. Mo. Mag. : — Pogonus littoralis, Dawson, is probably 

 only chalceus, var., according to Chaudoir (/. c, viii, p. 269); 

 ScydmcEUUs pimiilio, Schaum (miiiutus, Chaud., 7iec Fab. 

 7iec GylL), of which the only supposed British exponents 

 that have been seen by me are small Sparshallii, is in all 

 probability erroneously recorded as British, and had better 

 be withdrawn (/. c. ix, ]3. 8); Clambus punctulum, Crotch, 

 nee GylL, = minuhis, and should be withdrawn as British 

 {ibid.); Cryptophagus grandis, Janson and Crotch (? also 



