62 Mr. F. Holme’s Notice of Coleopterous Insects 
Opatrum sabulosum, which usually occurs in company with 
Phijlan gibbns, I did not detect : neither could I find Allecula 
sulphured, though it abounds on the same heath near the 
Land’s End. 
*Phaleria cadaverina. — A single specimen under or-weed on the 
beach. 
Helops striatus. — Found under every stone throughout the Islands. 
Lagria hirta. — Not uncommon. 
*Anthicus humilis. — Not uncommon among the gravelly sand, and 
even under the or-weed, on the beach at St. Mary’s ; but dif- 
ficult to catch, from its diminutive size and extreme agility. 
I found it last year on the sands near Ryde. 
Polystoma obscurella. — The Aleochara micans of Stephens’s Illustr. 
very common under or-weed, &c. I took one specimen of 
Al. Kirbii, which Stephens has placed as a variety of this spe- 
cies in the second edition of the Nomenclature : it appears to 
differ merely in being twice the size of the common variety, 
and I have several intermediate specimens. 
*Bolitochara xantliopa, and *termincdis. — One specimen of each, 
under or-weed on the beach : the antennae in B. xantliopa are 
remarkably long. 
assimilis. — Common in the same locality: the specimens 
smaller than those about Penzance. 
Aleochara fuscipes. — Common: I found one specimen in the dry 
broken carcase of Typhccus vulgaris, on the Garrison Hill in 
St. Mary’s. 
cursor? — ' This species, which is very common in Scilly 
and on the shores of Mounts’ Bay, in dung, under stones, &c. 
I do not remember ever to have seen elsewhere : it agrees 
better with the species described by Stephens as A. cursor, 
Kirby, than with any other: but as I do not feel satisfied of 
their identity, I subjoin a description of my insect. 
Length 1 — lin. Shining brassy black, with very slight pu- 
bescence : thorax rather widely punctured, with a polished 
dorsal line, bounded on each side at the base by larger punc- 
tures running into each other : elytra widely punctured, with 
a short hair in each puncture, and a large triangular fulvous 
spot, not quite touching the suture, at the inner angles of the 
apex : abdomen rather broad, linear : antennee and limbs dull 
black ; hinder knees sub-rufous. 
nitida, * Pella Junes ta. — Found with the last, but much 
less common. 
Tachyporous hypnorum and *putridus . — Passim. 
