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Capture in Britain of Bembidiwm quadripustulatwm, Dej.--I have lately had the 
good fortune to capture a small series of this very distinct species. It is allied to 
B. quadrimaculatum, and intermediate in size between that species and B. quadri- 
guttatum, from the former of which it differs in its superior size and darker legs, 
and in its antennze being black from the base. 
I found this handsome Bembidiwm at Bearsted, near Maidstone, in a wet place, 
which also produced me one specimen of the rare B. Stwrmii.—HEnry 8S. GorHamM, 
Bearsted Vicarage, June 18th, 1870. 
Capture in Northumberland of Cryptophagus fumatus, Gyll., a species new to the 
British List.—I have succeeded in finding a local specimen of what I think is the 
true Cryptophagus fumatus, Gyll.; Krichson, Insecten Deutschlands, iii, 363. The 
specimen is a male, which in its colouring and general form curiously simulates (as 
Erichson notes) a large Corticaria. In the form of the elytra, colour of pubescence 
and size, this insect is most closely allied to the recently introduced C. validus, 
Ktz. (Ent. Mon. Mag., vii, 9) ; from which it differs especially in having the thorax 
more nearly quadrate, with the anterior tooth more developed (sub-cyathiform, 
and somewhat suggestive of the anterior tooth of C. acutangulus) : from HB. cellaris 
its differently shaped thoracic anterior tooth and elytra, and its short golden pubes- 
cence, which is not disposed in striz, will separate it at a glance.—THos. JNo. BoLp, 
Long Benton, Newcastle-on-Tyne, June 4th, 1870. 
{ Mr. Bold has kindly allowed me to examine the insect above mentioned, which 
is in my opinion also undoubtedly the true OC. fumatus, Gyll.—E. C. R. | 
Note on the Hydrochus parwmoculatus of Hardy.—In preparing a revision of 
the Catalogue of Coleoptera of Northumberland and Durham, I have found it 
necessary to examine many local species, the claims of which to be considered 
indigenous might be thought doubtful. Amongst several others kindly sent to me 
by Mr. Hardy for that purpose, was his type of the above insect, which, after a 
careful examination, I was led to think was one of the Elmide, and closely allied 
to the recently introduced Macronychus 4-tuberculatus. Not finding any descrip- 
tion at all agreeing with Mr. Hardy’s insect, I forwarded it to Mr. G. R. Crotch, 
who at once endorsed my opinion, and has kindly favonred me with the following 
re-description and remarks. 
“ Macronychus (?) parumoculatus, Hardy, Trans. Tyneside Nat. F. Club, ii, 270; 
Cat. Ins. North. and Dur. Col. (App.), p. 242 (Hydrochus). 
Brunneus, tibiis tarsisque pallidis ; thorace elongato, antice producto, paullo ante 
 apicem fortiter constricto, disco inequalt, sat fortiter punctato ; elytris fortiter striato- 
punctatis, punctorum seriebus 8, insterstitiis 2° 5°que fortiter carinatis, postice con- 
junctis ; tarsis posticis tibiarum longitudini equalibus. Long. 14-lin. 
Described by Hardy as a Hydrochus, but clearly one of the Elmide, and nearest 
in form to Macronychus, with which it agrees in the structure of its tarsi, &c., 
though the antennz are 11-jointed. From Ancyronyxz it is removed by its head, 
which is constructed precisely as in Macronychus.” 
Many of Mr. Hardy’s insects were collected and mounted by his younger 
i brother and another boy ; and the one above described was found standing amongst 
_ the specimens taken in the viciuity of Newcastle: more of its history he could not 
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