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to the coastguard station at Margate. I have searched for it re- 

 peatedly since, but without success, and the locaUty is now practically 

 destroyed. Canon Fowler credits me with captures at Eamsgate also, 

 but this is an error. 



6. M. rugosus, Marsh (= M. rugulosus, BruU.). — A small squat- 

 looking species, Avith a very short and narrow thorax. The antennae 

 are unusually long and slender. I have met with it twice, the first 

 time on the pathway by the side of the road leading from Broadstairs 

 to St. Peters, on December 1st, 1887, the second time within five yards 

 of the same spot at the end of April, 1895. Only a single specimen 

 turned up on each occasion. The former date seems a curious one. 

 Probably the insect assumes the perfect state in autumn, like Lucanus 

 cervus, and the unusual warmth tempted it out before its time. It has 

 been recorded from Southend, Prittlewell in Essex, Tavistock, and 

 Exmouth, and Mr. F. Smith seems to have taken it on one occasion 

 in some numbers near Margate. 



7. ill. brevicoUis, Panz. — I have never seen this insect, except in 

 Dr. Power's collection, but it seems to have been taken in several 

 localities in the south of England. It may be at once distinguished 

 from the preceding species by the diffuse punctuation, and also by the 

 fact that the sides of the thorax are rounded. 



CoLEOPTERA NEAR SOUTHAMPTON IN 1899. — In January, 1899, Philon- 

 thus albipes, P. debilis, P. trossidus, P. thermarum, P. cephalotes, P. 

 ebeyiinus, P. Jimetarius, P. sordidus, and P. discoideus were to be found 

 in a manure heap, while OntJiopliilus striatus, Monotonia jncipes, Ephis- 

 tenns gyrinoides, and Leptacinus linearis were abundant in the same 

 locality. In June Phyllobrotica 4:-maculata, Ceuthorrhynchus ericae, 

 Micraspis l^-jmnctata, and Cryptocephalus labiatus turned up more or 

 less commonly by sweeping a moor. Scymnus cajntatus swarmed on 

 oak trees, and Balaninus venosus and B. turbatus were also present. By 

 general sweeping in July and August the following were obtained : — 

 Quedius crucntus -and Q. puncticollis, Sibynia primita, and Chrysomela 

 hyperici. Rhynonchus bruchoides was common on Polygonia in August, 

 and Antkrenus varius on Umbelliferae in July. — L. M. Bucknill. 



RTHOPTERA. 



On the Geographical distribution of European Orthoptera. 



By MALCOLM BUEE, F.Z.S., P.E.S. 

 Attached to the end of Prodromus der europaischen Orthopteren, 

 Brunner gives a map of Europe, divided into districts according to the 

 distribution of the Orthoptera found within it. Although he treats of 

 extra-European forms, i.e., North African, and Syrian, in the work, these 

 countries are not included in the map. He divides Europe into five 

 zones as follows : 



I. Includes Scotland, Scandinavia, with Denmark, and North Eussia. 



II. Includes Ireland, England, the Netherlands, Prussia, Poland and central 

 Eussia, with Moscow. 



III. Includes (a) the northern half of France, Switzerland, Bavaria and Austria, 

 to Budapest, (b) Hungary, Transsylvania, Eoumania as far as the river Bug. 

 (c) South Eussia, to the Ural. 



IV. Includes (a) South of France, (b) Italy, from the Alps to Eome. (c) The 

 Balkan peninsula between the Danube and the frontier of Greece, without Epirus. 



