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bilities are only detenuined by the existence of its food-plant, the 

 establishment of the Painted Lady as one of the prevailing species 

 of its race is assured. This is intensified by the fact that, although 

 the thistle is the chief, it is by no means the only, food of the cater- 

 pillar, which will thrive on many other common plants of widespread 

 distribution. 



drOLEOPTERA. 



Anthonomiis rufus, Schoen., an addition to the British List. 



Aiithonoiiitiii nifiis, Schon., iii., p. 347, 21, des Loges, " Ann. de la 

 Soc. Ent. de Fr.," viii., 1896, p. 436. This species can only be 

 mistaken for A. jii'dictdaris, L., on account of its comparatively simple 

 anterior tibia?, but may be known from it thus : 



A. Posterior femora toothed . . . . . . A. j^edicidaris, L. 



B. Posterior femora without teeth . . . . A. rufus, Schon. 



M. des Loges (I.e.) says that it is found over the greater part of 

 Europe, and mentions England, but hitherto there have been no 

 records of its capture in this country. He says he has taken it on the 

 flowers of the sloe in the spring. He says that it appears to be con- 

 founded in collections with A. idml and A. pedicularh, but is easily 

 distinguished by its smooth and very cylindrical rostrum. This, hoAv- 

 ever, does not seem to be a very reliable character, as it is evidently 

 sexual. I have examined several continental males, in which it was 

 not at all marked, and a very typical female in which it was very much 

 so. It cannot, however, be confused with idmi, as I have already 

 pointed out, on account of its comparatively simple anterior tibife, 

 and with iiediciilaria by its not possessing any teeth to the posterior 

 femora. I introduce the species on a specimen taken by Mr. W. H. 

 Bennett, of Hastings, in his district. I have also seen a second 

 specimen, taken by Professor Beare, in the same locality. — H. St. J. 

 K. DoNisTHORPE, F.Z.S., F.E.S., 58, Kensington Gardens, S.W. 



Anthoxomus rufus, Schon., at Fairlight. — On June 19th, 1892, 

 I beat a little Antlwnomm from blackthorn, which seemed stranoe to 

 me. At first I thought it might prove to be A. brittanus, but I could 

 not make it agree with that or any of our other species. The speci- 

 men went the rounds of most of our leading coleopterists, with no 

 definite result, and it was ultimately put on one side. There it 

 remained, until in 1899 I was collecting at the same place wdth 

 Professor Beare. We were looking for Cisudphai/us hederac, and under 

 the bark of some old ivy Professor Beare took a little weevil hybernat- 

 ing, which I at once recognised as my old friend. I then sent it to 

 Mr. Donisthorpe to see if he could make anything of it, and he now 

 informs me that it is Anthonomiis rufus, Schon., a species not previously 

 recorded from England. — W. H. Bennett, F.E.S., 15, Wellington 

 Place, Hastings. 



CoLEOPTERA IN THE CUMBERLAND PeNNINES. SuOW Still lay OH the 



mountains, when, on May 6th, I penetrated into the Pennines to rencAV 

 my acquaintance with some of the beetles which have their habitat in 

 these wild, little visited regions. I was fortunate in having the company 

 of two lepidopterist friends, whose own captures, though of considerable 

 interest, were not extensive, and who very kindly took to beetle-hunting. 



