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said to be unusual outside Spain, but Mr. Turner said he 

 had seen quite a number with the spots more or less apparent. 

 Var. zermattensis was the usual form of the $ at Zermatt. 



Nkw and rare British Beetles. — Mr. G. C. Champion 

 exhibited specimens of 3felanophila acuviinata, De Geer, 

 Criocephalus ferus, Muls., and other Coleoptera found on 

 pines near Woking. He called attention to the numerous 

 interesting forms that had been found on pines during recent 

 years, not only in the south of England, but in Scotland also. 

 The Buprestid had probably not been searched for pi-eviously 

 at the inght season — during the driest time at the end of the 

 summer and early autumn — at a period when few insects are 

 to be found. He stated that he had met with various other 

 Buprestids, both in Spain and in Tropical America (e. g. 

 Bitjirestis sanguinea, F., and Actenodes cltalyheitarsis, Chevr.), 

 in the dry season or when the trees had been scorched by fire. 



Mr. Norman H. Joy showed the following new British 

 Coleoptera : Upi2)eda nigricans, Thoms., Pityogenes treixiimtus, 

 Nordl., both taken at Blair AthoU, Perthshire, September 1909 ; 

 Lathrohium dilictuvi, Er., captured at Dalwhinnie, Inverness- 

 shire, September 1909 ; Cri/jjtophagits pallidus, var. argenteus, 

 var. nov. , differing from the type form in having silvery pubes- 

 cence ; he also exhibited Fhilonthus irosstdus, Nordl. (nigrituhcs, 

 Brit. Colls.), from Dalwhinnie ; the genitalia of Gnathoncus 

 nidicola, Joy, and G. rotundatus, Kugel., and of Anisotoma 

 anglica, Rye, and A. cianamomea, Er. ; and a series of Sunias 

 lyonessius, Joy, fi-om the Scilly Isles, and he pointed out the 

 structural characters by which this species may be distinguished 

 from S. angustatus. 



R.ARE British Dragonfly. — Mr. W. J. Lucas exhibited 

 a very fine ? example of fSy7npetrum foiiscolomhii, Selys, 

 on behalf of Mr. F. W. Edwards, of Cambridge, who took 

 it on September 24th, 1908, at Frensham Ponds, in Surrey. 

 Probably this species is always an immigrant with us, and but 

 few specimens have been recorded. One 9 ii" Stephens' 

 cabinet was supposed to have been taken near London. 

 Mr. McLachlan possessed a S from Mr. T. Desvignes' 

 collection. A S was taken at Deal in 1881. Messrs. Briggs 

 took 17 males in June 1892 on Ockham Common, in Surrey. 



prog. ent. soc. lond., IV. 1909. e 



