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then get another piece the width of the glass required (allowing for 

 the cut of the diamond), put this on the glass, bringing both edges to 

 rest against the piece nailed on ; with this little contrivance you can 

 cut up your plates in your dark room with a certainty that they are 

 the correct size. If you have any doubt about the size, you can 

 practise in the daylight with a waste plate. 



Stonehouse : 



August 15th, 1898. 



CEYPTOSYPNUS MI^RIDIONALIS, Lap., AN ADDITION TO THE 

 BEITISH LIST OF JELATEEIDM. 



BT PHILIP B. MASON", M.E.C.S., F.L.S. 



In the collection of the late Eev. A. Matthews there is a specimen 

 of CryptoJiypnus meridionalis, Lap. This is black, with the thorax 

 uniformly rugose, and is easily distinguished from O. dermestoides 

 Herbst, by its dark antennae and legs, the trochanters and apices of 

 the tibiae only being reddish. It is labelled as having been taken at 

 Pegwell Bay. 



Burton-on-Trent : August 4th, 1898. 



[The recorded localities for this species are Austria, Switzerland, 

 Lombardy, Piedmont, and Southern France. I have taken it in the 

 interior of Corsica, from beneath stones, on the sandy banks of the 

 Eiver Tavignano. O. meridionalis is hardly likely to prove indigenous 

 in Britain, and the only fear is that Mr. Matthews' specimen may 

 have been an accidental introduction. The insect is apparently not 

 known from Northern France or Germany. — G. C. C.]. 



Coleoptera at PorlocTc.- — During a fortnight spent at Porlock in the early part 

 of May I did a little collecting ; but the weather was not very favourable, and 

 beetles were far from plentiful. My best captures were seven examples of Ischnodes 

 sanguinicollis from a decaying ash stump, the interior of which was overgrown with 

 black fungus, and twelve of Platyrrhinus latirostris, from hard black fungi on the 

 stem of a dead but standing ash. In company with the latter (which is not so easy 

 to see as its great size would lead one to expect) were Mycetophagus atomarius (6), 

 Diphyllus lunatus (25), and three species of Cis. Dianous ccerulescens was common 

 in the long moss bordering on the waterfalls ; but I only got a single Quedius 

 auricomus. Q. riparius I could not find at all, though I looked for it long and 

 carefully. — Theodoee Wood, 157, Trinity Eoad, Upper Tooting, S.W. : Juf.g 

 25th, 1898. 



