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The total number of additions to the Fauna of Britain 

 recorded during the year is again so large that individual 

 treatment is precluded. I will therefore only mention what 

 seem to me to be the more interesting items. 



CoLEOPTERA. — Mr. E. G. Elliman describes a species of 

 Homalota under the name of H. scotica, new to science. It 

 appears to be quite a distinct species, and was taken at 

 Nethy Bridge in September, igo8, by Prof. Hudson Beare 

 and Mr. Donisthorpe (" Ent. Rec," vol. xxi, p. ^^). 



Anaspis hudsoni is the name of a new species, taken by 

 Mr. Donisthorpe from a fungus on Scots fir at Nethy Bridge, 

 Inverness-shire, also in September, igo8. In connection 

 with this notice there is a beautiful plate from drawings 

 by H. C. Dollman showing the male appendages of all the 

 British species of this genus (" Ent. Rec," vol. xxi, p. 60). 



Thinohms pallidus. — Specimens of this Staphylinid beetle, 

 new to science, were taken by Mr. Britten in Cumberland, 

 and described by Mr. Newbery ('' E. M. M.," vol. xlv, p. 4). 



Mr. James Edwards separates Dryops anglicamis from 

 other similar species. He took this at Horning in May, 

 1888 (" E. M. M.," vol. xlv, p. 218). 



Under the name of Myrmecopora brevipes Mr. E. A. Butler 

 separates a shorter legged species of this genus, found on the 

 Devon and Cornish coasts, from M. iivida, which haunts 

 the coasts of Hants and Kent (" E. M. M.," vol. xlv, p. 29). 



Dr. David Sharp describes Rabocerus bishopi, a small 

 species taken by himself and Mr. Bishop off dead birch twigs 

 in Inverness-shire (" E. M. M.," vol. xlv, p. 245). 



DiPTERA. — Mr. Hamm has taken two interesting species 

 of Diptera, new to Britain, Miltograinuia germari, Mg., near 

 Oxford, and Setulia grisca, Mg., in the New Forest. They 

 are both parasitic on burrowing Hymenoptera (" E. M. M.," 

 vol. xlv, pp. 105 and 273). 



Dr. Wood has continued his studies on the genus Phora, 

 with the result that he has described forty-five more species 

 new to science from England, and Mr. Malloch has added 

 one from Scotland (" E. M. M.," vol. xlv, p. 24, et seq.). 



Mr. Enock records, " with feelings of anything but 

 pleasure," the occurrence of Clinodiplosis equestrts, a wheat 

 pest new to Britain, at Tenby. The bright red larvae live in 

 cavities in the stalks (" Entom.," vol. xlii, p. 217). 



Hemiptera. — Cyjuns obliquus, Horv., has been recorded 

 by Mr. E. A. Butler, from the Hastings district, where it 

 occurs on Solanum dnlcmnara in damp places (" E. M. M.," 

 vol. xlv, p. 59). 



