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time, worm itself into the British list, and, on this account, I think it 

 advisable to put the insect on record. 



Corticaria crenicollis, Mannh., a new British beetle. 



By NOEMAN H. JOY, M.R.C.S., F.fi.S. j 



Last August, when examining some dead and quite dry oak branches 

 at Basildon, Berkshire, I came across several specimens of a small 

 light-colou.red Corticaria, which I at once recognised as an addition to 

 the British list. I sent one of them to the Eev. Paul Belon, who was 

 unable to name it, as he had not his collection with him, but suggested 

 C. lo7igicollis, Zett. I therefore obtained a specimen of this species 

 from Herr Reitter, and, by comparing mine with this, was, by the help 

 of Gangibauer's "Die Kafer von Mitteleuropa," able to identify it 

 certainly as C. crenicollis, Mannh., a rare species on the continent. 

 Its nearest ally is C. lonf/icollis, from which it differs in having a broader 

 thorax and more parallel elytra. Both these species are separated by 

 Ganglbauer from C. serrata, Payk., by the presence of distinct temples, 

 but I cannot say I find this a very obvious character. C. cremcollis 

 differs from C. serrata in being smaller (it is the smallest member of 

 the genus), of a lighter colour, and in having more parallel and less 

 strongly punctured elytra. At first sight it somewhat resembles (\ 

 elongata, GylL, being of the same colour and nearly the same size ; 

 the thorax, however, is more evenly rounded at the sides, and more 

 strongly punctured and crenulate, and the elytra are distinctlj^ although 

 slightly, rounded at the sides. 



Hearing that Mr. Pool had taken a Corticaria under bark this spring, 

 at Epping, I wrote to him, and he very kindly sent me one of them, 

 which turns out to be C. crenicollis. There are specimens of it mixed 

 with C. serrata, in the Power collection, from Farnham, and Mr. 

 Donisthorpe has taken a specimen at Chiddingfold, in moss, in company 

 with ants. Mr. Edward Saunders, also, has a specimen from the 

 Capron collection. 



The Butterflies of Bagshot, Surrey. 



By CECIL FLOERSHEIM, B.A., F.E.S. 



The following is a list of the Rhopalocera observed or taken by my 

 friend Dr. Cruttwell and myself within a four mile radius of this 

 place, which is situated amid the pine and heather country in that 

 part of Surrey which borders on Berkshire, and is distant only some 

 27 miles by road from London : — Pieris brassicae, P. rapae, P. napi, 

 Enchlo'e cardamines, Coliasedusa, Gonepteryx rhamni, l!Juf/07iia polychloros, 

 Aglais urticae, Vanessa io, Pyrameis atalanta, P. cardiii, Dryas paphia, 

 Ar(jynnisadippe,A.aglaia,Brentldseuphrosyne,Hip23archiasetnele, Pararge 

 megaera, Epinepliele janira, E. titJionus, Coenonynipha pampJdlus, Bithys 

 quercus, Callophrys rubi, Rumicia phlaeas, Plebeius aegon, Aricia 

 astrarche, Polyommatus icarus, Agriades corydon, Celastrina argiolus, 

 Cupido minima, Hesperia malvae, Nisoniades tages, Adopaea flava 

 (thaumas), and Augiades sylvanus, making a total of 34 species. To 

 particularise about some of the less common species which arei 

 not merely immigrants : — 



EuGONiA POLYCHLOROS. — Though very few elms are to be found 



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