136 | November, 
Occurrence in Britain of Aleochara maculata (C. Brisout).—I have had for some 
years a specimen of an Aleochara, captured by myself in the shingle by the banks of 
the Lyn, in north Devon, which puzzled me very much. This was taken by Mr. 
Crotch to Paris last spring, and has been returned named by M. Ch. Brisout as the 
species described by him in Grenier’s Cat. des Col. de France et Matériaux, &c., 
25, p. 18, under the name maculata. It is there compared to bisignata, Er., a 
species I believe we have not as yet found in Britain; and is not unlike cwunicu- 
lorum, Ktz., but is larger, with longer and stouter antenna, shorter legs (the 
middle tarsi especially being shorter) and darker femora. It is, moreover, more 
sparsely clothed with a golden pubescence, and the abdomen is less closely punc- 
tured. In size and colour of the elytra, it is like a large example of A. nitida, 
from which, of course, the absence of the double series of thoracic punctures at 
once distinguishes it.—H. 8. Goruam, Bearsted, October 13th, 1870. 
[M. Brisout’s species above recorded as British has been erroneously attributed 
by German Coleopterists as a synonym to A. cuniculorum, Ktz. (bisignata, Wat. 
Cat., nec Er.) ; from which, as is evident from Mr. Gorham’s observations, and as I 
have also been long ago assured by M. Fauvel, it is abundantly distinct.—E. C. R.] ~ 
Note on Homalota alge, Hardy.—Mr. Crotch in 1866 proposed to retain Mr. 
Hardy’s name for one of the two species of Homalota included by him under it. 
In this I fully concur: indeed, I think it must be adopted as a matter of right. 
Not only does he most accurately describe the dark insect, as noticed by Dr. Sharp, 
but his description, as will be seen below, was published a year previous to that of 
H. puncticeps, Thomson. That Hardy should have appended another species as a 
variety does not, in my opinion, matter one whit ; were it otherwise, many names 
now recognised would not stand. 
The following are the dates, &c., of publication referring to this insect .— 
Homatora atc, Hardy, Trans. Tyneside Nat. Field Club, ii, 78 (1851). 
H. puncticeps, Thoms., Ofv. Vet. Ac. Forh., 1852, p. 183; D. Sharp, Rev. 
Brit. Hom., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1869, p. 140. 
I may add, that the date of 1852 on the title page of the separate copies of 
our Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Northumberland and Durham was a printer’s 
blunder; it should have been 1846—1852, as its publication in our Club’s Trans- 
actions began in 1846, was continued in 1851, and concluded in 1852,—TuHos, JNo. 
Boxtp, Long Benton, Newcastle-on-Tyne, September 23rd, 1870. 
Note on British locality for Baridius scolopaceus.—In my communication refer- 
ring to this species at p. 107 of the present vol., I inadvertently wrote “South” for 
“Kentish ” coast.—G. C. CHampion, 274, Walworth Road, 8., 6th October, 1870. 
Captures of Coleoptera during the past season.—At Whitstable, Kent, I have 
found Ceuthorhynchus frontalis, Bris., in quantity on Artemisia maritima, in June, 
un-accompanied by C. troglodytes (this will, I think, go far towards establishing 
the specific value of the insect). Mordellistena pusilla also occurred on the same 
plant, but rarely; Lymnewm sparingly, in a salt marsh; Phytecia cylindrica and 
Malachius marginellus by sweeping ; Homalota puncticeps (abundantly), H. imbecilla 
(rarely), Heterothops binotatus (in abundance), Philonthus sericeus and Aleochara 
grisew in decaying sea-weed, and Donacia menyanthidis, commonly, on reeds. 
