1918.] 33 



pale, with striae and sculpture much finer ; legs longer and more 

 slender ; underside dark pitchy, with deeply impressed fourth and fifth 

 abdominal segments in male. 



The slender posterior femora in both sexes, the distinctly longer and 

 less thickened tibiae, its fine surface-sculpture and silky pubescence, 

 and the very evident bluish bloom with which it is covered when fresh 

 makes this insect readily recognisable. 



C. cisteloides Frol. also has the underside dark ; but its deeper 

 striae, much coarser sculpture, and usually darker elytra, easily 

 distinguish it. 



C, intermedia Kraatz has the underside pale as in C. stitrmi and 

 C. angustafa ; its different shajDC, and the distinct outstanding hairs 

 on the elytra, the gouge-shaped trochanters in male, and the simple 

 apex to elytra in female, easily se^mrate it from these sj^ecies. 



All five species have been found by me in moles' nests, although 

 C. intermedia seems to be really attached to rabbit burrows, as I 

 have dug it out on several occasions at a considerable depth in 

 such places in midwinter, the beetles running about quite actively 

 and usually in paii's. It is difficult to say anything at present as 

 to the distribution of these insects, but I have taken them all in 

 Cumberland and also in Oxfordshire, and have also had examples of 

 all the species lent me b}^ Commander Walker, from the Oxford 

 District ; whilst he also has C. angustata from the Isle of Sheppey 

 and the neighbourhood of Chatham, and C. intermedia from the Isle 

 of Sheppey and Campbeltown. 



I am greatly indebted to Commander Walker for the loan of all 

 his material, and also to Mr. G. C. Champion for looking up descriptions 

 in works which I am unable to obtain. 



Myrtle View, Windmill Road, Oxon. 

 Jan. lUh, 1918. 



RE-OCCUREENCE OF ANCH0MENU8 (AGONUM) SAHLBERGI Chaud. 



IN SCOTLAND. 



BY J. E. MTJEPHT. 



In May 1909, while collecting Coleoi^tera in Renfrewshire (south 

 side of the River Clyde), I bottled an Ancliomenus as a unicolorous 

 variety of parumpunctatus F. It was not until adding it to my series, 

 some months later, that I noticed the difference, and the thought occurred 

 to me that, not improbably, it might prove to be the long lost sahJhergi. 



