18 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
b. Fovéoles médianes de l’aire postérieure du pronotum 
bein marquées. Crins dressés de la région frontale 
généralement trés courts et peu abondants. : 
Ecusson deux fois aussi large quelong .. .. D. minutus, F. 
I propose that the three species shall stand in the British list 
thus :— 
1. Dinoderus minutus, F. (substriatus, Steph.) (being the species in the 
Stephensian cabinet and that taken by Professor Beare at Richmond). 
2. Dinoderus pilifrons, Lesne (the insect in the Power col.). 
3. Stephanopachys substriatus, Payk, (Matthews’ capture, now in Mr. Gorham’s 
col.). 
It is probable that all these insects are importations, D. minutus 
is found nearly all over the world, and the genus feeds on roots, corn, 
bamboo, and other wood, &c. I must express my thanks to Messrs. 
Gahan and C. O. Waterhouse for carefully identifying all these insects, 
and to Mr. Gorham for kindly letting me see his beetle—Horace 
DonistuorPe, F.Z.8., F.E.S., 58, Kensington Mansions, South 
Kensington, S.W. 
CoLEOPTERA, ETC., IN VARIOUS LOCALITIES In 1899.—My entomological 
excursions this year outside my own district (Lea Valley and Epping 
Forest) have not been numerous, but I have nevertheless been able to 
add therefrom a few good insects to my collection. The results of two 
visits in May, and one in September, to the Dorking district, were :— 
Chrysomela goettingensis, not rare in moss, I was fortunate enough to 
find a nearly full-grown larva, which afterwards pupated, but died 
before reaching maturity ; Ceuthorrhyncus euphorbiae (crux), one swept, 
there were some beautiful patches of Veronica chamaedrys in flower 
close to the spot, from which no doubt the weevil came; Nitidula 
rufipes and 4-pustulata, a few of each, with Dermestes murinus, &c., out 
of a dead rabbit on a chalky slope; Carabus nemoralis, two or three 
out of moss—this is not In my experience a very common insect ; 
Cistela luperus (1) from a guelder rose blossom ; Phyllotreta nodicornis, 
several swept from some plants of Reseda in a lane; Amara acuminata 
(1) in moss; one each of two species of Hemiptera—/remocoris poda- 
gricus and the beautiful metallic blue Zicrona caerulea, also turned up 
in moss. A day’s collecting at Darenth, on June 17th, was very 
disappointing, so far as rarities were concerned, although I got a few 
more or less common species I wanted—Molytes coronatus (1) was met 
with crawling in a chalky lane, and a greenish aberration of Rhynchites 
pubescens came out of oak, with Cryptocephalus parvulus, in plenty, out 
of birch; on a mullein plant I noticed a single Lonyitarsus, but 
as my boxes were full, I did not take it. Mr. J. J. Walker, 
whom I met in the evening at Darenth village, informed me that 
he had taken the rare L. patruelis in the wood that afternoon, so 
that it is very probable the insect seen by me was that species. A 
visit to Deal on June 25th was also disappointing as regards its 
main object, Saprinus metallicus, for which I was apparently too late, 
while most of the specimens of S. aeneus, the only species of the genus 
which occurred, were damaged. Two of the Deal specialities turned 
up, however, in the shape of Melanotus punctolineatus, of which I found 
a single specimen sunning itself on a low stone wall, and Lirws bicolor, 
of which four specimens occurred on the golf links, at the roots of a 
large plant of Hrodiwn cicutarium, in company with the Hemipteron 
Pseudophlaeus falenit. Masoreus wetterhali, Dermestes undulatus and 
