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of cut pine branches, in company with numerous representatives of 

 P. vagabunda. P. BcBrensprungi, the type of which was found in 

 Germany, is very like P. cuUciformis, De Geer (erraticaj Eall ), but 

 may be easily separated from it, and from P. vagahunda (Linn.) also, 

 by the short, erect, blackish, spiuiform elevation on the disc of the 

 pronotum immediately before the base. The anterior coxae are entirely 

 whitish. The legs and the basal joints of the antennse are whitish, an- 

 nulated with fuscous or black. The elytra have a long and conspicuous, 

 subtriangular, fuscous patch just beyond the first oblique whitish 

 nervure. The connexivum is in great part ochraceous, with alternate 

 black and yellowish marks along the outer margin. The anterior 

 femora have a row of short spines extending from the base to beyond 

 the middle. There is a long slender spine on the scutellum, another 

 on the post-scutellum, and a third on the base of the abdomen. P. 

 hrevispina^ Putou, from Algeria and Madeira, is probably nothing 

 more than a variety of this species. I have captured a very closely 

 allied form in Central America. The Madeiran insect was found 

 upon pine. The genus Ploiariodes, Buch. White, was based upon a 

 single species from the Hawaiian Islands, with a similarly formed 

 pronotum. 



Horsell, Woking : 



September Uh, 1898. 



COLEOPTERA, &c., IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT. 

 BT G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



During a recent visit to Sandown, Isle of Wight, from June 24th 

 to July 22nd, I have once more been able to visit some of my old 

 entomological haunts. As it is ten years since I have had an oppor- 

 tunity of collecting there, it is perhaps w^orth while noting some of 

 the species that were met with, though nearly all have already been 

 recorded by me from the Island.* Several, however, did not put in 

 an appearance, such as Sarpalus cupreus^ Thinohius hrevipennis, &c. 

 The following species may be now noted amongst the captures in 

 1898: — Cicindela germanica, plentiful in its old locality at Chale. 

 LymncBum nigropiceum, Yentnor. Bembidium saocatile and Tachys 

 iisiriatus, Luccombe. Ocys quinquestriatus, 0. rufescens, and Acupalpus 

 flavicoUis, rarely, Sandown. Taphria nivalis, in the roads, towards 

 evening, Sandown. Aepus marinus and A. Bohini, in their usual 

 habitat, near Sandown, &c. Pogonus littoralis, Sandown. Amara 



* cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., xxiv, pp. 136—138 ; xxv, pp. 133, 134. 



