1893.] 89 



Butalis taken on a heath near Newbury on June 29th, 1875. Mr. Meyrick begins 

 by stating clearly that this specimen " remains as yet undetermined " (the italics 

 throughout this note are mine) , and then goes on to inform us that it was returned 

 by Mr. Stainton as "perhaps" dissimilella, H.-S., but that Professor Zeller " declined 

 to give any definite opinion, and seemed to thinTc that it might he undescribed." 

 How any one could have been misled by these very plain statements is more than I 

 can understand, and I well remember my astonishment when I first noticed that, in 

 the Index to Ent. Mo. Mag., xiv, Butalis dissimilella was definitely included 

 (without even a ? after the name) in the list of " Additions to the British Insect 

 Fauna brought forward in this Volume !" Sine illm lacrymm I If I am right in 

 thinking that nothing fresh has transpired about the identity of Mr. Meyrick's 

 insect, his note still refers to " A Butalis new to Britain," and his statement that 

 that Butalis " remains as yet undetermined," is as true now as it was when originally 

 made in 1877. — Id. 



CarahidcB in the vicinity of Oxford. — During the past year specimens of the 

 following Carahidce have been captured in the vicinity of Oxford, mostly by myself. 

 Cychrus rostratus — occasionally, under dead leaves or in old stumps. Calosoma 

 inquisitor— two examples, in Bagley Wood. Clivina collaris — one specimen, in 

 dung. Dyschirius ceneus — two examples, in a sand-pit at Hinksey ; D. glohosus — 

 abundant. Dromius agilis — common. Brachinus crepitans — Cowley, three speci- 

 mens. Lehia chlorocephal a — one specimen, under a stone at Wheatley. Panagmus 

 crux-major — several examples at Cowley. Badister unipustulatus — occasionally, in 

 the sandy banks of a ditch at Cowley ; B. bipustulatus — on the hills at Shotover, 

 Wheatley, &c. Chlcenius nigricornis — in flood refuse, &c., Mesopotamia, near 

 Oxford. Oodes helopioides — with the preceding, not uncommon. Bradycellus 

 distinctus, harpalinus, &c. — Cowley. Harpalas rubripes — Oxford ; H. latus — 

 Bagley Wood. Stomis pumicatus — Oxford, rather common, amongst dead leaves, &c. 

 Pterostichus ohlongo-punctatus — Bagley Wood and Marston, sparingly ; P. niger — 

 Oxford, plentiful in flood refuse ; P. minor — Oxford, common ; P. picimanus — 

 Cowley, Bagley, and Forest Hill, a few specimens. Amarafulva — Cowley, under 

 stones and by evening sweeping ; A. aulica, ovata, lunicollis, and tibialis — Oxford. 

 Taphria nivalis — under stones and by evening sweeping, Oxford. Pristonychus 

 terricola — in an outhouse, and also in a farmyard at Cowley. Sphodrus leucoph- 

 thalmus — two specimens, in an old and long disused cellar in the city. Anchomenus 

 livens — four specimens, taken out of an old log in some flood refuse, in January, 

 1892, Oxford ; A. sexpunctatus, atratus, viduus, micans, gracilis, piceus,puellus, &c. — 

 in old stumps, &c., about the river; A. Thoreyi— several specimens along the 

 Cherwell, under the bark of old willow ti'ees. Bembidium rufescens and quinque- 

 striattim — under stones, in the city ; B. Mannerheimi, ceneum, &c. — -in accumulated 

 flood refuse at the mouth of the Cherwell ; B. assimile and ClarJci — Otmoor, under 

 bark of willow trees ; B. articulatum — sometimes in numbers in Mesopotamia ; B. 

 gilvipes — sparingly in the Otmoor district ; B. tibiale — Cowley, in a sandy ditch 

 in company with B. atroceeruleum, the latter in abundance; B. (fecorMW —sparingly 

 in flood refuse, Oxford ; B. lunatum — one specimen in flood refuse, Mesopotamia ; 

 B. saxatile, bruxellense, and fluviatile — in flood refuse ; B. punctulatum — 

 sparingly, and B. flammulatum, commonly, on Port Meadow. Tachypus flavipes — 



