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question. The following diagnosis (to be contrasted with the diagnosis of B. 

 femoratum in Schaum's Ins. Deutschlands), taken in conjunction with the distinc- 

 tions from femoratum I have pointed out above, will suffice to characterize it. 



B. anglicanum. Viridi-wneum, sub-depressum, antennarum articulis ad minimum 

 tribus basalibus, pedibus, palpisque rufo-testaceis, horum articulo penultimo 

 infuscato ; prothorace sub-cordato, basi sub-lcevi ; eh/tris testaceis, fascia pone 

 medium, margineque viridi-ceneis, punctato striatis, striis lateribus et apice 

 evanescentibus. Long. 2 — 2,\ lin. 



Var. femoribus medio infuscatis. 



Gyrinus Suffriani, Scriba. This species is allied to Q. natator, and is nearly- 

 equal in size to the smallest varieties of that species, but is readily distinguished 

 by the very different punctuation of the elytra, the punctures of the striae being 

 obsolete towards the apex, but deep and distinct at the base. I have captured 

 single specimens at Dumfries and Horning, and obtained a small series from Mr. 

 Desvignes' collection ; one of these I sent to Mr. Crotch, who has kindly compared 

 it with specimens of 0. Sujfriani which he received from Herr Scriba, and finds that 

 they agree in every respect. 



Aleochara lata. Though, at the present time, this insect appears to be 

 considered without doubt a variety of A. fuscipes, it is nevertheless, in my opinion, 

 a distinct species therefrom, and can be distinguished by positive characters. In 

 A. fuscipes the hind-margin of the dorsal plate of the 6th abdominal segment is 

 slightly emarginate in both sexes, rather more so in the male than in the female ; 

 in A. lata it is completely rounded in both sexes. In fuscipes this same hind-margin 

 is fringed with short ferruginous cilia, while in lata these cilia are black, and are 

 long in the male and short in the female. In fuscipes the ventral plate of this 

 segment is rounded at the hind-margin in both sexes ; while in lata it is rounded 

 in the male and emarginate in the female. These characters, in conjunction with 

 the broad form and dark elytra of A. lata, are, I think, quite sufficient to establish 

 its claim to a place as a distinct species from 0. fuscipes. Gravenhorst described 

 A. lata on specimens from N. America ; so I am unable to say whether our black 

 species is really conspecific with the American one ; if this should prove to be not 

 so, it will be necessary to find another name for the European insect. 



Aleochara fumata. I have no doubt this insect is only a variety of A. brevi- 

 pennis, as I have all the intermediate forms, and moreover can find no characters 

 to distinguish the most typical fumata from brevipennis, except size and colour. — 

 D. Sharp, Eccles, Thornhill, September, 1869. 



Afevj additions to the Coleopterous Fauna of Lundy Island. — During a sojourn 

 of a month at Ilfracombe, I paid two visits to Lundy Island : curiosity alone would 

 have induced me to explore this isolated granite block, but I was extremely desirous 

 of ascertaining what Aculeate Hymenoptera were to be found on it in the month of 

 August. I read, some years ago, with great interest, Mr. Wollaston's notes on the 

 Coleoptera found there by him in the month of June, 1844, from which it appeared 

 that in five days he captured 63 species. It is a fact, alluded to in those notes, that 

 one may start for the island frequently, but that landing on arrival there is a matter 



