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central and southern Europe. This is a very interesting addition to 

 our fauna; we now possess both the European species of Thanasimus as 

 British. 



SCARAB^ID^. 



Aphodius punctato-sulcatus, Sturm, var. obscurellus, 



Schilsky, Deutsch., Ent. Zeits. l.s.s.S, p. 315. This insect is a melanic 

 variety, in which the usual fuscous blotch on the elytra is much darkened, 

 and so expanded as to leave only a narrow stripe near the suture, and a 

 narrow space at base, sides and apex yellowish. The sides of the thorax 

 also are very rarely pale ; as a rule this very common species shows 

 very little tendency to aberration. 



Deal : Taken by Mr. F. B. Jennings and Mr. F, Bouskell. 



HALTIC-ff!. 



Chaetocnema conducta, Muls. Bull. Mosc. 1838, ii., 180, A small 

 species, ovate and convex, with the head and thorax greenish bronze, and 

 tlie elytra testaceous with the suture, the shoulders, and the edge of 

 the lateral margin dark ; under side black, shining ; the dark sutural 

 band is somewhat variable ; antennae moderate, reddish with the apex 

 darker ; head and thorax very closely but distinctly punctured ; scutellum 

 smooth and rounded behind ; elytra and thorax together forming a short 

 oval, with regular rows of distinct punctures ; interstices very finely 

 sculptured ; legs reddish testaceous, posterior femora entirely, anterior 

 and intermediate femora partly, black. 



Length 1|- mm. 



Two specimens of this very distinct and interesting species were 

 captured by E. Charles Horrell in Forge Valley, near Scarloorough, in 

 1911, by sweeping herbage. Mr. Horrell has searched for it again this 

 year (1912), but without success, as he had hardly any opportunity of 

 collecting in the locality. It will probably, however, be found in some 

 numbei^s, and probably in other localities, as it occurs (for the most part in 

 damp places on the margins of ditches and streams) in Southern France, 

 the Alpine region of Switzerland, the Austrian Tyrol, and throughout 

 the southern portion of Europe fi-om Spain to the Caucasus, as well as 

 in Algeria and Sj'ria. 



Iiongitarsus plantago-maritimus, Dollman. Ent. Record xxiv. 

 1912, 1.S7. '-Oblong ovate, strongly convex, deep black, shining; antennae 

 long, thickened towards apex, penultimate joints fully twice as long as 

 broad, black with the basal joints deep red-brown ; thorax moderately 

 shining, entirely deep black, punctured closely with a coarse and some- 

 what confluent punctuation ; winged ; elytra at base wider than thorax, 

 plainly widened behind, convex, deep black, the humeral callosity well 

 developed and very shining, very strongly, coarsely and closely punctured; 

 pygidium exposed, deeply punctured ; legs deep brown; femora nearly 

 black (the posterior femora quite black), interior and intermediate 

 knees, and all the tarsi, red-bi'own." 



