20 BOSTRICHUS CAPUCINUS IN IMPORTED OAK AT HULL. 
IV. GENUS ALLURUS. 
Male pores on segment 13. Semi-aquatic. Five known British 
species. 
21. cae soe Savigny. 22736. Distribution—Same 
s No. 
22 Alturas ee hishins Dugéts. . #7377... Distribution— 
Suss An element of doubt lingers ge this species 
hee I hope to be able soon to remove. 
23. Allurus glenn Friend. 18232. Distribution— 
N. Wales (Bangor). 
24. Allurus flavus Friend. $3-2%. Déstribution—Cumberland, 
Yorkshire. 
25. Allurus macrurus Friend. 13-22. Distribution —Dublin. 
well as doubtful species which need confirmation. 
which reach me week by week from Ireland give promise of new 
species, and I should be delighted to receive material from the Isle 
of Man, the Scilly, Orkney and Shetland Isles, the Highlands of 
Scotland, and other unworked parts of the kingdom. Worms may 
be sent in tin boxes with soft moss, when they will arrive in clean 
condition for immediate eer 
NOTE—COLEO. OPTERA. 
ostrichus capucinus in Imported Oak at Hull.—I have received from 
Mr. Stevenson, a timber merchant of this town, some sae pe ote wood- 
boring 
beetle which infested some foreign oak he had. This oak had 
B eccined from 
n taken ai all sin out m. ee 
length, ihe head and ‘hore being 1% k and ae rugose, while the Oey = 
part of the abdomen are i 
red. The Rev. W. W. Fow 
me, ove the following recone 2g this beetle in his ‘ Coleoptera st the British 
Islan —‘Very rare, eae not appear av 
ies 
It is ei probable that all our = fon 
oak it arri ee alt t were not noticed.—- 
WALTER r. Baxer, 5 fe consih 5 Seung Hull, Noes: nthe 1892. 
