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A. Baumanniana. Kimberland ; April and May : rather 

 common, thoup;h scarcer than usual. — H. IV. Marsden ; 

 Brook Street, Gloucester, February 5, 18G8. 



Notes on some doubtful British Coleoptera. — The following 

 notes, extracted from Bavbut and Dilhvyn, may perhaps be 

 held to confirm the indigenous origin of some species gene- 

 rally doubted. Mr. Dillwyn also refers, amongst others, the 

 Psylliodes Hyosciami as being not rare on the Myoscyamus 

 in the Burrows. It has not been taken for a long period. 



Hispa atra, L. Stephens figures this insect, and says that 

 he possesses a pair of it ; one taken near Rochfort, in Essex ; 

 the other from the Marshamian cabinet. Both these are very 

 doubtful, but it appears not to have been noticed by him or 

 others that Barbut, * Genera Insectorum of Linneus,' pub- 

 lished in 1781, also figures this insect (PI. iv. Gen. 12). He 

 describes it briefly, and adds, " 1 met with this little insect 

 in the month of July, at the root of long grass, in a field near 

 Paddington. It is rather hard to catch, letting itself fall 

 down on the ground as soon as approached." This notice, 

 I think, renders it certain that one example at least has been 

 taken in England, though very probably it is not really 

 indigenous. 



Cassida ferruginea. Dillwyn, in his ' Coleopterous Insects 

 of Swansea,' quotes a letter which he received from Dr. Leach, 

 where he says that he possesses the true C. ferruginea, taken 

 at Woodlands, Devon, and also from Sweden and Germany. 

 This, I think, is decisive as to the claims of this insect to be 

 considered indigenous. 



Eumolpus pygma3us. Mr. Dillwyn's account of the capture 

 of this insect is very circumstantial, and is confirmed by tho 

 fact that he subsequently got another specimen in the same 

 place. 



Scydmaenus rutilipennis. Mr. Dillwyn (1. c.) says that in 

 Dr. Leach's MSS. this is said to be a Swansea insect. There 

 is still a specimen in the British Museum, which, however, I 

 have little doubt was sent to Dr. Leach by his correspondent, 

 Herr G. Kunze, of Leipzic. 



AstrapsBus Ulrai, F. Mr. Dillwyn (1. c.) says, " One of the 

 Brachelytra taken in the neighbourhood, Dr. Leach said 

 belonged to the genus Astrapteus, LatrP 



Philonthus cyanipennis. Said by Stephens to be from 



