8 COLEOPTERA. 



collector, who has for some years possessed the secret of its 

 habitat), has been taken on the wing near London in num- 

 bers by Messrs. Douglas, Scott, and Bishop, and also 

 (singly) by Mr. Somerville, at Glasgow. Potamimis, whose 

 habits have remained unrecorded, in spite of the numerous 

 midland-county captures of it, is now found near Scar- 

 borough, where Mr. Lawson states it to occur in moss on 

 timber waterfalls, and submerged pieces of wood. Macro- 

 nychus should not be far off. A second example of Anthi- 

 cus bimacidatus (now in my collection) is recorded by Mr. 

 Morley. Mr. J. Kidson Taylor, with Mr. Hardy, has taken 

 several of the Rev. A. Matthews' Eros in Sherwood Forest, 

 out of rotten birch. I have compared some of these with 

 the Killarney species recorded by me as affinisy with which 

 they are identical. It has, I believe, not been recorded, that 

 a second capture of more than one example of the Killarney 

 insect was made by Mr. Hardy. Mr. Taylor has, also, cap- 

 tured more than one of the very rare Ceuthorhynchus angu- 

 latus (impressicollis) near Manchester. Mesites Tay'c^n, some- 

 what unexpectedly, appears in profusion on our north-east coast 

 (which causes an exhaustive resume of all its British locali- 

 ties by Mr. Sidebotham) ; and its detector, Mr. T. Wilkin- 

 son, records, from the same quarter, Pseudopsis and the rare 

 Atomaria Jimetarii. Mr. Wilkinson has also (as has Dr. 

 Sharp) bred several specimens of Carida flexuosa from 

 fungus on Alder. Coccinella lahills has re-appeared in 

 some numbers, having been again taken at Heme Bay and 

 (by Dr Power) at Weybridge. Mr. Sidebotham has substan- 

 tiated Aphodius viUosuSf from Llandudno, and Mr. Bold 

 notes Lithocharis rnaritima, only hitherto taken here in the 

 Isle of Wight, at Newcastle-on-Tyne. But these recollec- 

 tions must not be set down as representing more than a 

 random selection out of the many rare and interesting species 

 taken during the past season. Want of space alone pre- 



