ADEPHAGA. 13 



striate, the marginal strife nearly obsolete. Introduced by Mr. Newbery 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1910, p. 131) on a single specimen shaken out of a 

 tuft of grass at Hhaldon, near Teignmouth, on February 26, 1910, by 

 Mr. P. de la Garde. The species occurs in Italy, Greece, Asia Minor, 

 cfec, and can only provisionally be regarded as British till further 

 captures are made. 



DROMIUS, Bonelli. 



D. angustus, Brulle, Silb. Rev. ii, 1834, 105 (testacens, Er. Kaf. 

 Mark. Brand. 30). Ferruginous, with the elytra often dark reddish 

 brown, antennae, palpi and legs light reddish yellow ; forehead longi- 

 tudinally rugose at the sides only (and not completely across as in 

 J). meridio7icdis, Dej.), smooth or feebly punctured in the middle: 

 thorax abovit as broad as long, not strongly narrowed behind, with 

 the sides less broadly dilated than in D. agilis, F. ; elytra longer and 

 I'elatively narrower than in the last two mentioned species, with a row 

 of punctures on the seventh interstice only, in which it agrees with 

 I). meridionaUs, and ditiers from D. agilis, L. 5^-6 i mm. 



Mr. Champion (Ent. Mo. Mag. sliv. (2 Ser. xix.), 1908, 124), 

 records five specimens as having been taken by his son at Woking in 

 Janviary 190G, under bark of old posts. Ganglbauer mentions it as 

 found rarely in Central Europe, under bark. It is very likely in 

 several of our collections- under I). meridionaUs. 



D. agilis, var. bimaculatus, Dej. Spec. I. 240. This variety 

 differs from the type form in having on their anterior half a light 

 spot extending to the base, and before the apex a further small spot 

 which is often obsolete. 



A single specimen of this variety was taken by Mr. Donisthorpe at 

 Battle, near Hastings, in the early part of 1906. (Ent. Record, 1906, 

 p. 75.) This insect is evidently very rare. )Subsequently recorded by 

 Mr. Tomlin, from the New Forest. 



HALIPLID^. 



HALIPLUS, LatreiUe. 

 It has long been known that the species of Jlalijjlus, especially 

 those of the H. rujicollis group, were very ill-defined, and it has been 

 impossible to determine them with any satisfaction ; more than thirty 

 years ago Julius Gerhardt called attention to the value, as a differential 

 character, of an extremely fine irrorate punctuation found on the elytra 

 of the females (Zeitschr. fiir Ent. Breslau, 1877, 34) ; this, however, has 

 been made but little use of until recently, Mr, Newbery was aware 

 of the character when he introduced his H. immaculatus (Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. xliii., 1907, 4), but it has been left to Mr. J. Edwards to show its 

 full value in separating the species ; this he has done in a paper 

 published by him in the " Entomologist Monthly Magazine " (vol. xlvii. 

 2 Ser. xxii.) 1911, i.), in which he gives a table containing no fewer 



