18 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



b. Foveoles medianes de I'aire posterieure du pronotum 

 bein marquees. Crins dresses de la region frontale 

 gen^ralement tres courts et peu abondants. 

 Ecusson deux fois aussi large que long . . . . D. minutus, F. 



I propose that the three species shall stand in the British list 

 thus : — 



1. Dinoderus minutus, F. {suhstriatus, Steph.) (being the species in the 

 Stephensian cabinet and that taken by Professor Beare at Eichmond). 



2. Dinoderus inlifronR, Lesne (the insect in the Power col.). 



3. Stephanopachys suhstriatus, Payk, (Matthews' capture, now in Mr. Gorham's 

 col.). 



It is probable that all these insects are importations, D. mimitus 

 is found nearly all over the world, and the genus feeds on roots, corn, 

 bamboo, and other wood, &c. I must express my thanks to Messrs. 

 Gahan and C. 0. Waterhouse for carefully identifying all these insects, 

 and to Mr. Gorham for kindly letting me see his beetle. — Horace 

 DoNisTHORPE, F.Z.S., F.E.S., 58, Kensington Mansions, South 

 Kensington, S.W. 



CoLEOPTERA, ETC., IN VARIOUS LOCALITIES IN 1899. — My entomological 

 excursions this year outside my own district (Lea Valley and Epping 

 Forest) have not been numerous, but I have nevertheless been able to 

 add therefrom a few good insects to my collection. The results of two 

 visits in May, and one in September, to the Dorking district, were : — 

 Chrymmcla ijoeftiiit/ensis, not rare in moss, I was fortunate enough to 

 find a nearly full-grown larva, which afterAvards pupated, but died 

 before reaching maturity; CenthorrJnjncuH euphorhiae (crux), onQ swept, 

 there were some beautiful patches of Veronica chainaednjs in flower 

 close to the spot, from which no doubt the Aveevil ca^ue ; Nitidula 

 riifipes and 4:-pustidata, a few of each, with Dermcstes murinus, &c., out 

 of a dead rabbit on a chalky slope ; Carahus neinoralis, two or three 

 out of moss — this is not in my experience a very common insect ; 

 Cistela luperus (1) from a guelder rose blossom ; Fhyllotrcta nodicornis, 

 several swept from some plants of Reseda in a lane ; Amara acuminata 

 (1) in moss ; one each of two species of Hemiptera — Ereinocoris poda- 

 gricHs and the beautiful metallic blue Zicrona caerulea, also turned up 

 in moss. A day's collecting at Darenth, on June 17th, was very 

 disappointing, so far as rarities were concerned, although I got a few 

 more or less common species I wanted — Molijtes coronatns (1) was met 

 with crawling in a chalky lane, and a greenish aberration of Ehijnchites 

 piibescens came out of oak, with Cryptocephalns parvnlus, in plenty, out 

 of birch ; on a mullein plant I noticed a single Longitarsus, but 

 as my boxes were full, I did not take it. Mr. J. J. Walker, 

 whom I met in the evening at Darenth village, informed me that 

 he had taken the rare L. patrtielis in the wood that afternoon, so 

 that it is very probable the insect seen by me Avas that species. A 

 visit to Deal on June 25th Avas also disappointing as regards its 

 main object, Saprinus mctallicus, for AA'hich I AA'as apparently too late, 

 while most of the specimens of S. aeneus, the only species of the genus 

 which occurred, ^Yere damaged. Tavo of the Deal specialities turne;! 

 up, hoAveA'er, in the shape of 2lclanotus panctolincatus, of Avhich I found 

 a single specimen sunning itself on a Ioav stone Avail, and Lixus bicolor, 

 of Avhich four specimens occurred on the golf links, at the roots of a 

 large plant of Erodtum cicutariion, in company Avith the Hemipteron 

 PseudopJdaeus falenii. Masoreus u-etterhali, Denncstcs undidatiis and 



