2 ADEPHAGA. 



C. cancellatus, 111. This species has been restored to our lists 

 on the authority of a single specimen taken by Mr. H. J. Cuthbert at 

 Pouladar, a grassy glen opening on the shore about two miles from 

 Roscarbery village, West Cork, Ireland. Mr. Cuthbert in recording it 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag. xxxi. (2 Ser. vi.) 1895, 2(J5) says that it differs from 

 the type forni of the insect in having the femora entirely black, and 

 he says that "it is probably a south continental survival, of which we 

 have several analogous instances in the fauna of the extreme south 

 of Ireland, and possibly on the point of becoming extinct there." The 

 specimen has been carefully verified, and is now in the Dublin 

 Museum. 



This insect is the C. grmiulatus of Stephens (Illustrations, Mand. i. 

 51), who records four specimens as taken in a chalk pit near Gravesend 

 in the spinng of 1826 ; this and the Irish record are the only ones that 

 we possess of its occurrence in Britain ; but there is no reason why it 

 should not occur with us, for, as I said in a note on the Irish record 

 (J,c. 26 (J), it is widely spread throughout Northern and Central 

 Europe, and reaches as far south as the Pyienees and Northern Italy. 



C. cancellatus in some Avays resembles C. granulatus, but is altogether 

 a larger and finer insect, with the elytra broader, more ornate, and more 

 convex, and the large rows of tubercles more conspicuous ; the thorax, 

 moreover, is less explanate at the sides ; in C. granulatus the sides of 

 the elytra are not parallel, and, if anything, widest behind the middle. 

 In C. cancellatus they are rather strongly rounded and are widest at 

 or about the middle. It also has the first joint of the antennae red. 



C. nitens, var. niger, Semenow, Horpe. Soc. Ent. Ross. 1886, xx. 

 p. 2;:)4. Of the same size and shape as the type form, but with the 

 upper surface almost entirely black, and the thorax smoother, with the 

 central line well marked : the border of the thorax and elytra show 

 scarcely any golden sheen, and the red ribs on the elytra are resolved 

 into tubercles behind, the intervals being rugose and showing very little 

 green lustre at the sides. 



Denny Bog, New Forest, June, 1895 ; one specimen (Donisthorpe) : 

 Mr. Donisthorpe, in recording the capture of this insect (Ent. Record, 

 xi., 1899, 71), says that it agrees in every particular with the descrip- 

 tion of the unique example taken by Semenow at Archangel. On the 

 same day he took (also in Denny Bog) a black example of C. arvensis. 



NOTIOPHILUS, Dumeril 



The constitution of the genus is by no means definitely settled, 

 whether as regards the British or the European species. Several of them 

 are so closely allied that it is hard to distinguish them, and as the 

 individuals vary somewhat inter se, a considerable number of species 

 have been formed in the past which have gradually been sunk as 

 synonyms. 



N. pusillus, Waterh. Ent. Mag. i, ,"3, 207. (.V. higeminus. Thorn., 

 Arch. 1833, 112.) Dr. Joy (Ent. Mo. Mag. xliv. (2 Ser. xix.) 1908, 103) 



