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and elongated. Thomson (Sk. Col., vi, 297), besides these characters, states 

 that pumila has 3 striae on the tibiaa and first joints of the tarsi of the posterior 

 legs, whilst brevicauda has 4 striae on the same relative members. These striae 

 run obliquely from the upper ridge and cross the outer side of the tibia? and tarsi, 

 and are not very easy of definition in all lights ; on careful examination, indeed, in 

 certain positions, more than the specified number can be seen in each case, — but I 

 find that in the insect I suppose to be brevicauda there are more than in pumila, 

 as there should be.- E. C. Rye, 7, Park Field, Putney, S.W. 



Capture in Britain of Hydroporus discretus, — At the joint excursion of the 

 Berwickshire Naturalists' Club and the Dumfries and Galloway Natural History 

 and Antiquarian Society to Newcastleton, in Roxburghshire, on the 29th of July 

 last, I took Hydroporus discretus, Fairm. Dr. Sharp informs me that it agrees 

 with the specimens already captured by him, and brought forward among other 

 Hydradephaga in an earlier part of the present number. — W. R. McNab, Southern 

 Counties Asylum, Dumfries, August 1869. 



Note on new British species of Anthonomus. — In the 2nd part of M. J. Desbrochers 

 des Loges' Monograph of the European Balaninidce and Anthonomidce (Ann. de la 

 Soc. Ent. de France, 1868, p. 411 et seq.) are descriptions of certain species 

 interesting to English Coleopterists, and to which I will now briefly call attention. 



Anthonomus pubescens, Payk., Gyll. No reference is made to Britain as a 

 locality for this species, which appears in Waterhouse's Catalogue with a query ; 

 but there seems to be no doubt that the insect taken at Rannoch by the late 

 Charles Turner, and represented by Mr. Waterhouse's queried sj)ecies, is pubescens, 

 Payk. 



Anthonomus britannus, des L., I.e., 429. This species, attributed solely to 

 England, appears to have been described from an insect communicated by Mr. 

 Crotch, under the name of pubescens, Walton. M. des Loges remarks, however, 

 that it has only very slight resemblance to pubescens, Payk., being more Like 

 pyrencens, sibi; and that the shortness of its rostrum (which is almost dull), its 

 punctuation, the form of its striae and its feeble femoral teeth easily distinguish it 

 from its allies. The insect is shortest-ovate, convex, almost glabrous, entirely 

 reddish-ferruginous, and smaller than any of our species. An English description 

 of it will be found in the late Mr. Walton's Notes on Curculionidce (Ann. and Mag. 

 of Nat. Hist., 1844) ; from which it appears that three specimens of it were taken 

 in Herefordshire by Mr. Doubleday. 



Anthonomus Chevrolati, I.e., 430. This is described from specimens from 

 Algiers, Lyons, the Fyrenees, England, and elsewhere. Its short convex form, 

 the shape of its thorax (described as very transverse, slightly narrowed at the 

 base and very much so at the apex, with the sides conspicuously rounded before 

 the middle), the curving of the anterior fascia of its elytra towards the scutellum, 

 and its smooth interstices, are stated to distinguish it easily from all other species 

 resembling it in color, none of which, however, are specifically compared with it 

 by M. des Loges. 



Anthonomus til/mi and pedicularius. M. des Loges is anticipated by 24 years 



