232 REV. F, A. WALKER, D.D., F.L.S., ETC., 
OLASSEN 0G PovVELSEN. WALKER. 
(Linnzei carabus melanocepha- Otiorhynchus monticola. 
lus.) k AAAS Nebria gyllenhali. 
6. Scarabzeus thorace inermi nigro ~ Calathus melanocephalus. 
(2), elytris rubris et Linnzi, Pterostichus. 
Scarabzeus fimetarius. Amara. 
Cryptohypnus riparius. 
Cryptohypnus riparius, Fab., 
usually more bronze with first 
joint of antennz reddish and 
femora red. 
NOTES ON THE COLEOPTERA. 
N.B.—Nebria brevicollis (fr. Thorshavn in the Faroe Isles), 
is a larger insect than N. Gyllenhali, the species found in 
Iceland, although closely allied to it. 
I found Calathus melanocephalus at Reykjavik to consist 
mostly of Staudinger’s var. nubigena with the black or 
blackish thorax, very few of the typical form with the red 
thorax. The Flatey I. one, black. The specimen from 
Patreksfjord, intermediate. The Saudarkrok do., red typical. 
The Thingvellir do., black. The Onundafjord do., black. 
I fcund the Colymbetes above-mentioned in the mud 
below stones on the brink of a small lake about a mile W. of 
Reykjavik,and at its eastern end, on the afternoon of July 20th. 
Hippuris vulgaris grows plentifully in the immediate vicinity. 
Waters of lake had recently receded, owing to the fine hot 
weather of July compared with the unfavourable days of 
the latter part of June. 
Some of the specimens of Pterostichus (Platysna, in other 
words) are brownish, the others jet black, but the difference 
in colouring does not constitute them two species. Of my 
two specimens of Byrrhus, the one taken at Reykafjord, 
N. coast, lat. 65° 58’, is darker than the one at Eskefjord, 
E. coast, at. 65° 5’, the latter, when examined under the 
glass, being seen to have several light hairs, but the English 
specimens found here in the spring are very variable in this 
respect. 
Neuroptera. 
Of the Neuroptera, there is but little to be said. They 
consist solely of the Phryganide. Olassen and Povelsen 
only mention one species, which they include among the 
Lepidoptera “Neuropteris Linnei Phryganea bicaudata.” 
Phryganea bicaudata occurs again in Paijkull’s list in con- 
junction with two other species, P. rhombica and P. flava. 
