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specimens. I have also seen a small? example (named, with a query, 
hybrida) in Mr. G. R. Waterhouse’s collection, taken in early summer 
at Sydenham, and which I think must be referred to this species. .: 
10, Lower Park Field, Putney, S.W.: 
January, 1872. 
Note on the occurrence in England of Hydnobius spinipes, G@yll.—Both Hydnobius 
punctatus, Schmidt, and H. spinipes, Gyll., are included in the 1st and 2nd editions 
of Mr. Crotch’s catalogue; but the former of these species alone is recognized in 
the catalogue recently published by Dr. Sharp. As, however, I have carefully ex- 
amined undoubtedly British individuals answering to the descriptions of H. punc- 
tatus and H. spinipes given by Thomson (who points out Erichson’s erroneous 
reference of both to one species), I have thought it advisable again to register 
the latter as indigenous, and to give brief characters for the two insects. 
H, punctatus, Schm., Er.; Thoms., Sk. Col. iv, 27. This is of the size of an 
average example of H. punctatissimus (viz., 14 lin., Engl.), which it most resembles, 
and from which it may be known by its clear testaceous colour; its thorax being 
not so flat and more rounded in front; its elytra having the rows of interstitial 
punctures almost as deep and as regular as the usual strive, and more closely 
packed, so that the surface is obsoletely and obliquely transverse-strigose ; and by 
its male having a tolerably large tooth-shaped spine on the under side of the 
posterior femora, at some distance from the apex, instead of the whole femur being 
compressed and produced into a broad recurved tooth at the apex, as in g 
punctatissimus. 
In addition to the localities already recorded for this species, it may be observed 
that one or two examples of it have been taken near Scarborough by my friend 
Mr. T. Wilkinson, to whom I am indebted for wy sule type. 
H. sprnipes, Gyll.; Thoms., l.c., 29. This is considerably smaller than H. 
punctatus, being only a little larger than strigosus ; and may be distinguished from 
the former, apart from size, by its longer thorax, which is much more finely 
punctured, and by its elytra being also much more finely punctured, and more 
evidently obliquely transverse-strigose. 
From H. strigosus it may be known by its stouter build and broader legs, the 
less evident strigosity of its elytra, and the stouter spine on the under side of the 
posterior femora of its male. 
I possess a single example (a g, having the posterior femora toothed beneath 
much as in punctatus), taken near Croydon.—Ip. 
Note on the occurrence of Homalium rugulipenne, Rye, on the Welsh coast.—As — 
this insect has apparently remained unique in my collection since it was described 
in 1864, it was with great pleasure that I recently found three specimens of it 
(agreeing ad punctwm with my type) among some beetles sent to me for determi- | 
nation by Mr. Edwin Roper Curzon, who has, in the most liberal manner, presented 
me with two of them. Mr. Curzon informs me that the species was very abundant | 
indeed under seaweed on the sand hills at Newton Nottage, Glamorganshire, in | 
November, 1870, but only in one spot, where a storm had thrown up the weed | 
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