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Occurrence in Britain of Calodera rulens, Br. — Among some insects sent to me 

 for names by Mr. G. C. Champion, I find a single specimen of a Calodera which I 

 refer to rubens, Er. (Gen. et spec. Staph., 67 ; Ktz., Ins. Deutschl., ii, 142). Not 

 having any type of that species, I sent Mr. Champion's insect to Dr. Sharp, who 

 (though also happening not to possess an authentic type) also refers it to 0. rubens. 

 Its dull appearance and even and somewhat parallel form prevent its being 

 confused with any of the recorded British Caloderai ; in fact, it can only be likened to 

 a small specimen of Homalota languida (but with, of course, much more transverse 

 joints to the antennas). It is pitchy-black, with reddish-brown antennas and legs, 

 and is exceedingly finely and closely punctured all over. 



Two specimens have subsequently been taken in a marshy place, near 

 Lewisham, by Mr. Champion. — E. C. Eye, 10, Lower Park Fields, Putney, S.W., 

 February, 1870. 



Observations on Ceuthorhynchus distinctus, Bris. — M. Ch. Brisout de Barneville 

 has just described (in L'Abeille, vol. vii, p. 42, February, 1870) a Ceuthorhynchus 

 under this name, which he refers to the Pyrenees and England, as rare. From his 

 account, it appears to differ from C. rnarginatus solely in having six joints to the 

 funiculus, instead of seven. I entertain no doubt whatever that this is an insect 

 which I sent to M. Brisout last year, and to the structural peculiarities of which I 

 first drew his attention. I took one specimen of it on 12th July, 1863, at Dover ; 

 and at the same sweep of the net secured two or three undoubted C. rnarginatus. 

 This specimen is recorded by me in the " Entomologist's Annual " for 1866, p. 105 ; 

 and the result of that record was the discovery by Dr. Sharp and Mr. F. Smith of 

 similar insects amongst their series of rnarginatus. Since that time, in June, 1869, 

 being at Folkestone, where rnarginatus was tolerably common, I mounted and 

 examined very many specimens of it, with the express object of finding more 

 examples with six-jointed funiculus. In this I so far succeeded, as to find four such 

 specimens, which I recorded at p. 58 of the present vol., as aberrant in structure. 

 These I have now very carefully examined under the compound microscope, with 

 the result that my former conviction of their specific identity with rnarginatus is 

 corroborated ; my chief reasons being that in one of these four specimens the 

 funiculus of one antenna is six-jointed (the third joint of the funiculus being unduly 

 elongated and having apparently absorbed what should have been the fourth joint, 

 though with no apparent suture), and that in the other the funiculus is appa- 

 rently seven-jointed, the third and fourth joints being anchylosed, but with a very 

 evident indication of the usual articulation. If, in so limited a number as four 

 examples, one so aberrant in structure be found, I see no difficulty in considering 

 the other three as equally aberrant from (but still conspecific with) the numerous 

 typical rnarginatus in company with which they were taken. These four specimens 

 vary much in size (as does rnarginatus), two being as large as ordinary rnarginatus, 

 and the other two rather smaller than my smallest example of that species. After 

 a most careful and minute scrutiny, I fail to detect the slightest difference in 

 structure, scaling or facies, between the specimens in which the funiculus is seven- 

 jointed, and those in which it has only six joints. — Id. 



Cryptocephakis bvpustulatus a good species. — M. Gabriel Tappes, who is engaged 



