58 COLEOPTERA.. 



ohlita, Tetratomafangoruinj &c., at Putney ; and Mr. Lacy 

 records Drypta in plenty near Gosport. 



Apart from the usual vehicles of Entomological informa- 

 tion, I am only aware of one Biitish publication on Coleop- 

 tera during the past year ; viz., Mr. E. Parfitt's Catalogue 

 of the Coleojyf.era of Devon, foi'ming part of a proposed 

 work on the general Natural History of that county. 



In this Catalogue (which is scarcely sufficiently elaborated ; 

 grievous mistakes in orthography, nomenclature, type, &c., 

 being very nnmerons,besides the existence of such errors as the 

 location of Ejjhhtemus, varied to EpistewMSy in two differ- 

 ent families, the occurrence of Lamprosoma in two widely 

 separated groups, and the transplantation of ScydmcBnus and 

 Euthia into the Heteromera) there appear some statements 

 with respect to certain insects which are likely to be of par- 

 ticular interest to the British Coleopterist. The insects to 

 which I refer are (omitting divers Leachian and Stephensian 

 species, which are mei'c revivals of the original records) as 

 follow : — 



Falagria j)icea, Grav., Stcph. This, teste Erichson, is 

 E. nigra, Grav., var. ; a species not hitherto correctly re- 

 corded as British, according to the best of my knowledge. 



Aleodtara agilis {K\vhy), Steph. This insect is supposed 

 to be identical with A. bilmeata, Gyll. ; it is, however, 

 separated in Mr. Parfitt's Cat. from that species, which is 

 also included therein, immediately preceding A. agilis. 



Philonthus cyaneipennh. '* Exeter, very rare, aho taken 

 by Dr. Leach." The '^also" would seem to imply that 

 the former part of the sentence refers to another capture (or 

 other captures) of this species, more recent than that men- 

 tioned in the latter part. The insect is generally considered 

 to be doubtfully British. 



Agathidium nanum, Merg. (? Megerle); Steph. Stephens* 



