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" species have considerable resemblance to 31. difficilis, but 

 " are rather naore thickly punctured." Consequently, if 

 M. Brisout be right, it would appear that Mr. Waterhouse's 

 original determination from Erichson's descriptions, before 

 seeing his types, was the correct one. 



Last, and least, but perhaps most interesting, is the present 

 record of the capture by Mr. T. V. Wollaston, late during 

 the past autumn, at Barmouth, of several examples of the 

 very rare (as British) M. exilis, which occurred there ex- 

 clusively on Thrincia hirta^ Roth., "a common Leontodon- 

 looking plant, covering the sub-littoral sand." This insect 

 is also found at the Cape of Good Hope, teste Reitter. 



Aberrant individuals of Notiophilus palustris, Amara 

 trivialis, and Haiyahis ceneus, immaculate Aleochara cuni- 

 culorum, and Corymhites quercus abounding on rocks, are 

 recorded by myself fi'om the Isle of Man ( Ent. Mo. Mag., ix., 

 p. 243). And on the Frontispiece of the present "Annual," 

 fig. 8, will be found the representation of a variety of Pana- 

 gcBus 4:-pustulatus from my own collection, in which the 

 usual transverse black marking on the elytra is so abbre- 

 viated as to leave an irregular longitudinal streak of light 

 colour on each elytron, instead of the usual two spots. I fail 

 to observe any record of such a peculiarity in this species. 

 Snellen van VoUenhoven (Bidr. Faun. Nederl. ; Naamlijst 

 van Schildvl. Ins., p. 9) remarks that his Dutch specimens 

 of P. crux-major are intermediate between that species and 

 P. 4i-pustulatus, and infers that the latter is only a var. of 

 the former ! 



Aphodius sus flies to light at Deal, in some numbers. 

 J. W. Douglas, Ent. Mo. Mag., ix, p. 193. 



Balaninus brassicce. Mr. Albert Miiller (Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 ix, p. 192) adds some particulars to his former account 

 {ibid., vi, p. 1 37) of the oeconomy of this species in its earlier 

 stages. The larva has been observed by him to make its 



