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canaliculata tind differs h-oia it in many respects: both species are widely 

 distributed on the Continent, but the latter extends much further north 

 than the former. M. harhata above must stand in our lists ; it is 

 extremely I'are and has only occurred in the New Forest at wide 

 intervals of time : the last specimen was taken, as far as I know, at 

 Brockenhurst, on an oak trunk, in the evening, in June 1901 by 

 Mr. Bed well ; Mr. lieasler took several specimens the same year. 

 C Guliver has taken four or five specimens, now in the collections of 

 Mr. Gorham, the late Mr. F. Bates, and the late Dr. P. Mason ; the 

 first, well figured by Curtis, was captured on the wing by Mr. Bentley 

 in the same locality in June 1823. 



CARIDA, Mulsant. 



C. (Hallomenus) affinis, Payk. (Faun. v. ii. 181, 3 ; Gyll. 

 Ins. Suec. ii. 529, 3). A small pitchy-brown species, with the head and 

 thorax sometimes darker ; much resembling at first sight a small species 

 of Anaspis : elongate, subconvex, extremely finely and obsoletely 

 punctured, and clothed with exceedingly fine and short testaceous 

 pubescence ; antennae subfiliform, entirely yellowish-red ; second joint 

 suo-transverse or about as long as broad, third longer than the fourth, 

 palpi with the last joint securifoim ; thoi'ax at base about as broad as 

 the base of the elytra, feebly margined at the sides, which are narrowly 

 and obscurely reddish ; elytra with the shoulders lighter ; legs 

 entirely pale red or yellowish-red. L. 2-2|^ mm. 



Found at Strathspey, Scotland, in fungus on trees, by Mr. C. G. 

 Lamb in July 1905, and subsequently by Colonel Yerbury, (First re- 

 corded as British in the Proc. Lanes, & Ches. Ent. Soc. 1905, 34.) 

 Dr. Sharp (Ent. Mo. Mag. xhi. (2 Ser. xvii.), 1906, 220) says that 

 there is some doubt as to whether the species has been found in Britain 

 before^ as according to Seidlitz (Ifis. Deutsch, v. a. p. 524) Ahdera picea, 

 ^^''alker, is a synonym of JlaUomemis affinis, Payk. ; he thinks, how- 

 ever, that Seidlitz is wrong, as Walker's brief description and locality 

 (near London) are neither sviitable to C. affinis. 



The species occurs in Scandinavia, Germany and Finance. It is allied 

 to G. Jlexuosa, but is very distinct, being smaller, more convex, Avith 

 shorter and much more slender antennje and quite diflerently coloured. 



OSPHYA, Illiger. 



O. bipunctata, F. In the Entomologist's Eecord for 1899 

 (xi. p. 267), Mr, F. Bouskell describes three new varieties of this insect 

 as follows : 



'•Type-form of male. Elytra greyish-black, sometimes yellowish-red 

 at the margins, posterior femora strongly thickened. 



" Vanr. maculata. Elytra grey-black, apical half red-brown, margins 

 red-brown. (The general appearance of this insect is exceedingly like 

 the brown and black form of Toxotus meridianus.) 



" Type-form of female. Thorax red, with two black spots varying 

 in size, elytra brownish-red, apex black, posterior femora simple. 



