184 THE entomologist's record. 



iirOLEOPTERA. 



Notes on the additions to the British List of Coleoptera since Canon 

 Fowler's " Coleoptera of the British Isles." 



By HORACE DONISTHORPE, F.Z.8., F.E.S. 

 {( '(i)itiniii'(l fmiii [1. 161.) 



I'ltih/ilrxs roarrtatiis nh. siitii rail's, Sharp. — This addition, in the 

 1898 Catalogue, is the aberration of sutnralis [= coarctatnn, Gredl.), 

 described by Sharp in the Hut. Mo. Mai/., vol. ix., p. 152. He 

 described his aberration, to which he did not give a name, thus — 

 " var. palpis maxillaribus articulo secundo (intermediumque quarto 

 medio) leviter infuscato." Kuwert, in the llestimuiuix. Tahdlcn treats 

 Sharp's sKturalis as a synonym of roairtatiis, Gredl., and his ab. of 

 sntKralis as ab. autiiralis, Sharp. 



Hehipliitnis ohscKniN ab. s/u'tlanilirns, Kuwert. — Kuwert, in VrrlnDul- 

 liDiif il<'s )iatiirf<irsc/i('n(h')i Vririiix i>t Ilrihin, vol. xxviii., p. 227, under 

 HtliipJiorKs 'thscuridi, writes : — " From the Shetland Isles comes a 

 variety of this insect, with black metallic shining elytra, in form and 

 shape true nbsnirKu, Muls., v. sJn-tlandinis, Kuw." It seems to mc that 

 this aberration, and the next, should be added to the British list, as 

 they are evidently genuine, and, from their descriptions, well-marked 

 forms. 



Ht'liijJi(in(s (/n'sciis ab. hidhi palpis, Kuwert. — Kuwert, in the same 

 publication as the above, p. 196, says of Heloplmnis i/riseus: — 

 " Examples from the Shetlands with so strongly thickened last joints 

 of the palpi that they seem almost deformed = ab. hidhipalpis, Kuw." 



OctJichias h'joUsi, Muls. — Bennett [Knt. Mo. Ma;/., vol. xxxi., 

 p. 181). Taken by Mr. Bennett in numbers- in pools of stale salt 

 water, near Ilfracombe. 



Alcocliara succiola, Thos. — Champion [F.nt. Ma. Maij., vol. xxxiii., 

 p. 97). It is mixed with A. iimrsta, Grav., in I^ritish collections. 



Hi»iial()ta jiniinosa, Kraatz. — Champion [Knt. Mo. Maij., vol. xxxiii., 

 p. 274). Taken by Mr. Elliman on chalky paths and in grassy places 

 at Chesham. 



Hoinalota daviiicra, Scriba. — Champion {Knt. Mo. Ma(i.,\o\. xxxiv., 

 p. 266). Taken by Mr. Elliman in dead leaves in a ditch at Tring. 



Honialota din'sa ab. aiu/idata, Sh. and Fow1.()/<t Blatch). — Mr. Blatch 

 tells me that this is a very marked aberration, he has not yet, how- 

 ever, published the description. He has taken it in dead moles and 

 hedgehogs, near Birmingham. It appeared for the first time in the 

 1898 Catalogue. 



SticIio;ih)ssa si'iiiinifa, Er. — Champion (Jvut. Mo. Ma;/., vol. xxxv., 

 p. 55). Taken by Mr. Harwood, near Colchester, bv beating oaks in 

 ]\Iay. 



Arena octarii, Fauv. — ]\Ir. Blatch mentions in the Knt. Mo. Ma;/., 

 vol. xxviii., p. 160, that this species had been taken by Mr, Tait, at 

 Ilfracombe, in a dead gull, and by himself under stones in sand, in 

 company with VIn/tosits haltinis, on the Chesil beach. It is described 

 by M. Fauvel in the Annalrs ]-!nt. Sor. Fran., 1862. p. 292, as follows : — 

 " Brunneo-testacea, nitidula, aureo-pubescens, capite brunneo, crebre 

 subtiliter punctato, abdomine toto nigro, parce subtilissime punctulato, 

 apice rufo-testaceo, thoracc cpiadrato, angulis obtuse rotundatis, disco 



