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laterally, frequently obliterated ; the margin of the fourth segment 

 usually has a narrow white marginal fringe ; beneath, the margins are 

 thinly ciliated with pale hairs. 



Male. — (Length 3 lines). Head and thorax of a bronzed green, 

 sometimes of a blue-green, closely punctured ; antennae nearly as long- 

 as the head and thorax, fuscous above, pale fulvous beneath ; the 

 apex of the clypeus pale yellow. Thorax, the tegulae piceous; the 

 wings subfuscous, iridescent. Abdomen linear ; the base of the two 

 intermediate segments depressed, and having laterally a little white 

 pubescence. 



This species very closely resembles Morio, but is usually of a 

 brighter green ; the abdomen of serata (female) has also a greenish 

 tinge, that of Morio is black. 



Frederick Smith. 



5, High Street, Newington, 

 February 19, 1848. 



(To be continued). 



Capture of Coleoptera in Scotland. — I send you a notice of a few of my coleopte- 

 rous captures, in hopes that it may prove interesting to the readers of the ' Zoologist.' 



Endomychus coccineus. In the month of January, while stripping the bark from 

 some decayed willow-trees on the banks of the Esk, I found the trunks covered with a 

 small red and black beetle : being but a beginner in the study of insects at that time, 

 I was quite puzzled. On showing it to Mr. Hepburn, of Whittingham, however, he 

 discovered it to be Endomychus coccineus. Although of frequent occurrence in 

 England, this, as far as I can learn, is the first time it has been taken in Scotland. 

 In this locality it is extremely abundant. I have succeeded in capturing more speci- 

 mens hybernating than in summer. It is always most thickly clustered near the root 

 of the tree, and rarely at a greater elevation than two feet, generally interspersed with 

 Phaedon Vitellina. 



Lamprias chlorocephalus. In the same locality with the preceding insect I have 

 taken a single specimen of Lamprias chlorocephalus, which appears to be very rare. 



Meloe proscarabceus. I have taken three females amongst the long grass by the 

 banks of the river. 



Broscus cephalotes. In the month of August I succeeded in capturing several spe- 

 cimens of Broscus cephalotes, under carcasses along the beach. 



Cychrus rostratus. In an old quarry, between Musselburgh and Preston-pans, 

 Cychrus rostratus occurs frequently under stones : in a pond in the same quarry Dy- 

 tiscus marginalis is very abundant. 



Chrysomela polita. Rather common on willows. 



Cataphagus lineatus. Very common on the nettle (Urtica urens) during summer. 



Melolontha vulgaris. One evening in the latter end of June I captured a fine 



