80 COLEOPTERA. 



6S. Ptilium saxonicum, Gillm. ; Wat. Cat. ; G. R. 

 Crotch, Zool. 8999 (1864). 

 Mr. Crotch states that this and the next species were 

 omitted from his Cataloc^ue, on the authority of the Rev. A. 

 Matthews, who considers the examples on which he intro- 

 duced them to be varieties of ah-eady recorded species. 



69. Ptilium discoideum, Gillm. ; Wat. Cat. 



E. C. Rye. 



284, King's Road, Chelsea, S.W. ^ 



12ih November, lS64i. 



P.S. Since concluding the above notes, I have been enabled, by rhe 

 courtesy of Mr. J. Sidebotham, to examine the specimens of Pcritelus 

 griseus, Sibynes canus, Lixus JiUfovjuis, and CeutlwrliyncMdeus 

 Pon'cri, referred to at p. 74 et seq., all of Aviiich are fresh, carded, and 

 well set. ]Mr. Sidebotham has also, in the most lilieral manner, con- 

 ceded to me examples of the first and last of these species. 



Several specimens of the Peritelus were taken by Mr. Waimn'ight, of 

 ^Manchester, at or neai- Ventnor, Isle of Wight, in April last. IMi-. Side- 

 botham thinks they were most probably obtained by shaking herbage on 

 banks over paper. Mr. Wollaston tells me that he has often wondered 

 we did not possess this species, which is abundant on the continent ; and 

 that he should certainly have selected the Undercliff as a likely place 

 for it. 



A Darv\inite would describe the insect as a cross between Otiorkyn- 

 cJms plcipes and CneorMnus geminatus. 



One example only of the Lixus was foimd b}^ IMr. Sidebotham, when 

 beating oak or bu'cli, in a plantation on the side of Eoundwey Hill, near 

 Devizes, "Wiltshire, early in last June. This was doubtless only a 

 straggler. The insect Avould most likely be obtained, if tlic thistle stems 

 found in that neighbourhood were brought home and secured in a 

 breeding-cage. It is somewhat like L. hicolor, but smaller and much 

 less robust ; the thorax has two dull-grey dorsal lines, and the elytra re- 

 semble dark specimens of Urh'hlnifs maculating in colour and marking. 



Two specimens of the Sibynes were taken by Mr. Sidebotham, early 

 last June, by sweeping in a lane between De\dzes and Potteru. Mr. 

 Sidebotham thinks they came off Bj'y?'Ofiia dlolca. Another example 

 was also taken, about the same time, by Mr. Edleston, at Knutsford, 

 near Bowdon, in Cheshire. 



Of the Ceutkorhyticliidens tu'o specimens were taken at Silverdale, 

 near Lancaster, by LIr. Sidebotham, between the 14th and 18th IMav last. 



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