1870.] ; 107 
Occurrence on the south coast of Baridius scolopaceus, Germ., a species new to 
Britain.—In June last, I captured a single specimen of Baridius scolopaceus, Germ., 
by promiscuous sweeping on the south coast.* B. scolopaceus is about the average 
size of our other British Baridii, but utterly unlike any of them, being densely 
clothed with brown scales, variegated above with white, the abdomen being 
sparingly scaled beneath with white. It seems to vary a good deal in the amount 
of scales,—M. Perris, indeed, having founded a new species at its expense, under 
the name of vestitus, with which my insect will probably best agree. M. Perris 
records his specimens as being taken among Salicornia and Glauwx, at the foot of 
the plant, and it seems to be a not uncommon European species. I do not believe 
that either plant was to be found within half-a-mile of the spot where I took my 
insect, but my specimen may have strayed; at all events, I hope to investigate the 
matter more fully next season. 
_ My insect has been compared by Mr. G. R. Crotch and it agrees very well 
with his B. scolopaceus, as also with the description in Germar’s “ Insectorum 
Species,” p. 202. The single specimen representing B. scolopaceus in the Brit. 
Mus. Coll. does not quite agree with mine, being probably typical scolopaceus.— 
G. C. Cuampion, 274, Walworth Road, London, S., September, 1870. 
Capture in Britain of Tomicus bicolor, Hbst.—1 took last June, at Darenth 
Wood (I believe in oak), a single specimen of a Tomicus, which I refer to bicolor of 
Herbst, a species which has hitherto escaped record as British, although it has 
been taken in numbers by Mr. G. R. Crotch, at Down, in Kent. Its differences from 
T. alni, Georg (Marshami, Rye), have been already given in this Magazine.—Ip. 
Coleoptera near Manchester.—The following are the most noteworthy species I 
have taken in this district this year, and which, I believe, are hitherto unrecorded 
from that district (with one exception). 
At Drinkwater Park, towards the end of the winter months, moss and hay- 
stack refuse yielded Homalota villosula, setigera, silvicola, oblongiuscula, and one g 
example of crassicornis; and sifting dead leaves produced Bolitobius inclinans and 
Hypocyptus pygmeus. 
At Stretford, on the banks of the Mersey, in flood refuse, beetles were exceed- 
ingly abundant during March ;—Ochthebius rufo-marginatus, however, was the only 
species I observed worth notice in this place. 
At Chatt Moss, in April, under pine bark, I met with a small family of 
Phleopora corticalis, though I only secured one; in Sphagnum, Hydroporus celatus 
and Gymnusa brevicollis sparingly, and, by beating the pines later on, Salpingus ater 
and Pissodes notatus (the latter is doubtless well established in this locality) : 
Ceuthorhynchus punctiger, by sweeping, and Malthodes atomus by beating sallow 
(also at Barton on the same tree). 
At Clifton, with my friend Mr. Broadhurst, Malthodes misellus, 6 and 9, by 
sweeping under trees, chiefly oak ; a subsequent visit by my friend in quest of this 
insect proved unsuccessful, Malthodes dispar having replaced it: under stones by 
the river side, Geodromicus nigrita and Ancyrophorus homalinus, in company and 
abundant. 
* This locality will, of course, interest Curculiophils in Cornwall as much as those in Kent,—Eps. 
