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body (such a.s the Zonlopfical Society) which should investigate all the 

 circimistnuces and be empowered witli authority to veto all species that 

 nii*zht by any possibility become pests in the country of their proposed adop- 

 tion, and permanent records should be kept of the circumstances under which 

 others were admitted. With proper safeo-unrds, T see no reason why our 

 butterfly fauna mifrht not be enriched by the addition of many beautiful 

 exotic species. — E. Ernest Grekn, Camberley : Feb. 1918. 



Apion {En/thrapion) mimatnm Germ, in Scotland. — Dr. Sharp's remark, 

 in his paper on the " British Red Apious " (antea, p. 4) that he had not seen 

 A. mmiatum horn Scotland, induced me to send him a "Clyde" specimen 

 which I had standing in my collection under that name. He has examined it 

 and finds it correctly identified. It was taken by me at Ardpeaton, east side 

 of Loch Long. Dumbartonshire, on 27th June, 1910. The species does not 

 appear to have been previously recorded from the Clyde area, I may add that 

 on 21st September last I took a few specimens of Chrysomela hyperici Forst., 

 from St. John's-wortonthe shore near Ardpeaton. — William Evans, 38 Mor- 

 uingside Park, Edinburgh: \2th Fehritary, 1918. 



Abundance of Anthrenus variu>i F. in Essex. — During last June, a feature 

 of my garden, at Westcliff, was the excessive abundance of this little Der- 

 mestid on the blossoms of n certain white rose-tree. At the commencement 

 of its occurrence the flowers appeared quite black, owing to the beetles 

 being present in such large numbers, in company with MeUyethes., Olibrus, and 

 other flower-frequenting Clavicornes. After the first few days, however, they 

 were not so numerous. About fifty specimens were secured, but many were 

 partly divested of their elytral scales I am indebted to Mr. G. J. Arrow 

 for kindly determining the species. Another case of extraordinary abundance 

 during the past June was that of Attelabus curculionoides L. on young oaks, as 

 was also the case the preceding year. — A. F. J. Gedye, 2 Park Terrace, 

 Westcli£E-on-Sea, Essex : Feb. ISth, 1918. 



Sysciophthalmus craioshayi Champ. — Synonymical 7iote. — The remarkable 

 Curculionid from Useless Bay, Tierra del Fuego, described in the February No. 

 of this Magazine, antea p. 35, under the above name, proves to be synonymous 

 with Anomophthalmus insolitiis Fairm. (1884), the type of which was from 

 Santa Cruz, Patagonia, the reduced number of joints in the funiculus (o insteiid 

 of 7) separating S. craivshayi from Sysciophthalmus Heller. I am indebted to 

 Dr. Sharp for calling my attention to Kairmaire's description of it, which was 

 overlooked by me. He tells me that he has dissected males of Sysciophthalmus 

 and Anaemerus, and finds that these genera are somewhat closely allied, 

 Tanymeciis (as represented by T. palliatus Y.\ on the other hand, being 

 perhaps sufficiently different in c? -structure to belong to a separate group. 

 Amongst Capt. R. Crawshay's captures at Useless Bay, etc., in Tierra del 

 Fuego, there are also specimens of a Carabid, A^ichomenus seinistriatus Fairm., 

 type from Punta Arenas, not included in Enderlein's Fuegian list ; Commander 

 Walker sent me examples of it taken in the same Magellanic locality in Dec. 

 1880.— G. C. Champion, Horsell: Feb. lUh, 1918. 



