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to the coastguard station at Margate. I have searched for it re- 
-peatedly since, but without success, and the locality is now practically 
destroyed. Canon Fowler credits me with captures at Ramsgate also, 
but this is an error. 
6. M. rugosus, Marsh (= M. rugulosus, Brull.)—A small squat- 
looking species, with a very short and narrow thorax. The antenne 
are unusually long and slender. I have met with it twice, the first 
time on the pathway by the side of the road leading from Broadstairs 
to St. Peters, on December 1st, 1887, the second time within five yards 
of the same spot at the end of April, 1895. Only a single specimen 
turned up on each occasion. The former date seems a curious one. 
Probably the insect assumes the perfect state in autumn, like Lucanus 
cervus, and the unusual warmth tempted it out before its time. It has 
been recorded from Southend, Prittlewell in Essex, Tavistock, and 
Exmouth, and Mr. F. Smith seems to have taken it on one occasion 
in some numbers near Margate. 
7. M. brevicollis, Panz.—I have never seen this insect, except in 
Dr. Power’s collection, but it seems to have been taken in several 
localities in the south of England. It may be at once distinguished 
from the preceding species by the diffuse punctuation, and also by the 
fact that the sides of the thorax are rounded. 
CoLEOPTERA NEAR SouTHAMPTON IN 1899.—In January, 1899, Philon- 
thus albipes, P. debilis, P. trossulus, P. thermarum, P. cephatlotes, P. 
ebeninus, P. fimetarius, P. sordidus, and P. discoideus were to be found 
in a manure heap, while Onthophilus striatus, Monotoma picipes, E'phis- 
tenus gyrinoides, and Leptacinus linearis were abundant in the same 
locality. In June Phyllobrotica 4-maculata, Ceuthorrhynchus ericae, 
Micraspis 12-punctata, and Cryptocephalus labiatus turned up more or 
less commonly by sweeping a moor. Scymnus capitatus swarmed on 
oak trees, and Balaninus venosus and B. turbatus were also present. By 
general sweeping in July and August the following were obtained :— 
Quedius cruentus and @. puncticollis, Sibynia primita, and Chrysomela 
hyperict. Rhynonchus bruchoides was common on Polygonia in August, 
and Anthrenus varius on Umbelliferae in July.—L. M. Bucxnitt. 
@® RTHOPTERA. 
On the Geographical distribution of European Orthoptera. 
By MALCOLM BURR, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 
Attached to the end of Prodromus der europaischen Orthopteren, 
Brunner gives a map of Europe, divided into districts according to the 
distribution of the Orthoptera found within it. Although he treats of 
extra-European forms, z.e., North African, and Syrian, in the work, these 
countries are not included in the map. He divides Europe into five 
zones as follows: 
I. Includes Scotland, Scandinavia, with Denmark, and North Russia. 
II. Includes Ireland, England, the Netherlands, Prussia, Poland and central 
Russia, with Moscow. 
Ill. Includes (a) the northern half of France, Switzerland, Bavaria and Austria, 
to Budapest. (b) Hungary, Transsylvania, Roumania as far as the river Bug. 
(c) South Russia, to the Ural. 
IY. Includes (a) South of France. (b) Italy, from the Alps toRome. (c) The 
Balkan peninsula between the Danube and the frontier of Greece, without Epirus. 
