462 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



by the Rev. A. Matthews, as follows: — "Throscus carini- 

 FRONS, de Bonvouloir, Essai Monographique sur la Famille 

 des Throscides, p. 20, tab. i. fig. 5 (1859). At first sight 

 resembling T. dermestoides, Z/., but at once distinguished 

 from it by the ocular depression extending right across the 

 eyes ; more nearly allied to T. elateroides, Heer (T. gracilis ? 

 WolL), but readily separated therefrom by its superior size, 

 the prominence of the lateral frontal longitudinal ridges, 

 which extend to the anterior margin of the prothorax, the 

 sinuated sides and prominent posterior angles of the prothorax, 

 especially in the males, and the somewhat finer punctuation of 

 the interstices of the elytra. Three specimens taken by the 

 Rev. A. Matthews, in company with T. dermestoides, by 

 sweeping in a plantation near Chiselhurst, in July, 1869, and 

 shortly after placed in my hands for identification. Cry- 

 PHALUS PiCE^, Ratzeburg, Forst-Insecten, i. p. 163 (1837). 

 Allied to C. Abietis, Raizeb., but larger, less convex, the 

 elevations on the anterior part of the prothorax larger, 

 and arranged in five or six tolerably regular rows, the striae 

 of the elytra distinct, and the interstices, especially towards 

 the apex, with sparse erect yellow bristles. One specimen 

 taken by the Rev. A. Matthews, many years since, in the 

 vicinity of Weston, Oxon. ' 



[I have purposely omitted the mention of Formica Hercu- 

 lanea as a British insect, because I consider the evidence 

 unsatisfactory, and calculated only to mislead. — Edward 

 Newman.] 



Death of Mr. Lock. — It is my melancholy duty to record 

 the early death of Mr. George Lock, of the Turkish Baths 

 Newport, Monmouthshire. He caught a violent cold, 

 which induced gastric fever, and terminated fatally on 

 Monday, the 30th of October. He has left a large 

 quantity of British insects, which he has employed many 

 years in collecting and breeding, in which latter occupation 

 he ^as particularly successful. The destination of his col- 

 lections has not. yet been communicated to me. 1 have been 

 under much obligation to him, for the promptitude with 

 which he communicated both information and specimens. — 

 Edward Newinan. 



