48 i. I'^ebruavy, 



Coleoptera at Loch Awe, N.B., June, 1892. — I find there are two slips in my 

 list published last August (ante vol. iii, p. -216). I inserted by mistake E. cethiops 

 for J5. acridulus, and A. alpinus for A. testaceus, thus making it appear I had taken 

 two rare insects instead of two common ones. I may add, as of some interest from 

 that locality, though most are common insects : — Coccinella IS-guttata, Cytilus 

 varius, Phyllopertha horticola, including black variety, Heloden marflinata, Cyphon 

 padi, Leiopus nehulosus, Donacia sericea and dincolor, Dorytomus pectoralis, and 

 Homalium ruflpes. — ATtTmjR J. Chitty, 33, Q,ueen's Gate Gardens, S.W. : 2Bth 

 December, 1892. 



Mezium affine. — T have recently come across this insect in a granary in London, 

 though only sparingly. Many of the specimens were dead or broken, but in two 

 (from their colour they seem slightly immature) the elytra are covered all over with 

 hairs or bristles, which are closer and longer in the neighbourhood of the scutellum. 

 Tlie existence of these bristles appears to have escaped the attention of our English 

 writers on Coleoptera, probably because the bristles wear off very easily, and though 

 occasionally traces of them may be found by close examination, even after they are 

 broken, they sefem eventually to disappear without leaving any visible scar or sign of 

 their former existence. The descriptions contained in Stephens' Illustrations and 

 Manual, Cox's Handbook of Coleoptera, and Canon Fowler's Coleoptera, ai-e evidently 

 from the usual worn specimens ; Mr. Gorham has, however, kindly referred me to 

 some of the continental authorities, and to them the existence of the hairs or bristles 

 seems known ; thus Mulsant, in his Gibbieolles, p. 393, on M. affine, says — " Elytres 

 gibbeuses avec un bourrelet tomenteux a leur extreme base d'un brun ou d'un roux 

 de poix, lisses et parsemees de soies pales squamiformes et redressees ;" and Reiche 

 has described a species from Algeria as hirtipenne, which is probably only the same 

 insect in a fresh condition. Mr. Gorham has called my attention to the fact, men- 

 tioned by Mulsant in his description above set out, that there is a narrow band of 

 scales at the base of the elytra. I had taken this for the constricted base of 

 the thorax, and I believe that it has generally been treated as such by English 

 writers and Coleopterists. Mezium affine must, I think, be fairly common in the 

 City and neighbourhood, in old warehouses, granaries and cellars. In addition to 

 the specimens above mentioned, I have recently seen it and Gibbium scotias in fairly 

 large numbers from the cellar of an old public house in the City. Unfortunately 

 the cellar has now been cleared of the old rubbish in which the beetles lived and 

 thrived. — Id. 



Anthaxia nitidiila in the Kew Forest. — Quite recently I have had for examina- 

 tion a very fine specimen of this beautiful beetle, which was taken in July, 1891, by 

 my friend. Dr. Burman, of Wash-on -Dearne. It was swept from the herbage which 

 bounds the road from Brockenhurst to Lyndhurst in the New Forest. — E. G. 

 Batfoed, 158, Doncaster Road, Barnsley : December 2\st, 1892. 



Monohammus sartor, F. — In the collection of Mr. A. Paterson, of Doncaster, 

 is a fine $ of this species. It is in very good condition, an antenna which had been 

 broken off having been replaced in an almost faultless manner. Mr. Paterson in- 

 formed me that it was taken by the joiners at the Great Northern Railway plant 

 while sawing up timber ; some time about 1885, he thinks. — Id. 



