Insects. 5447 



4. Silpha, Linn. 



S. reticulata, III., Sleph. A single specimen obtained by one of 

 the authors in Haslar Lane. 



S. tristis, III., Steph. Tolerably common. 

 S. obscura, Linn., Steph. Very common. 

 S. laevigata, Fab?'., Steph. Common. 



5. Phosphuga, Leach. 



P. atrata, Linn., Steph. Local and not common. Burrows in de- 

 caying trees. 



6. Catops, Fabr. 



C. angustatus, Fabr. About roots of grass in banks at Privet. 



„ var. Cisteloides, Steph. Not common; among grass 



on banks at Grange. 



C. nigricans, Spence. Taken from dead moles at Alverstoke. 



C. nigrita, Frichs. Taken with the last species. 



C. tristis, Panz., Frichs. In dead moles and in dead fish. 



C. pumatus, Frichs. Chiefly in dead fish. 



C. scitulus, Frichs. In dead moles and in decaying fish. 



C. sericeus, Frichs. Taken usually crawling along field-paths, 

 and also in dead fish. 



Haslar Hospital, 



t, 1856. 



(To be continued). 



Note on Phytosus spinifer and Phytosus nigriventris. — On examining my specimens 

 of Phytosus, I find that I have, from our own coast, both of the species which are 

 found on the Continent, and which hitherto have been regarded as male and female 

 of one species by most collectors. I copy from Erichson's ' Natur. der Insecten' the 

 short Latin* diagnosis of each : — 



1. Phytosus spinifer, Curtis, Brit. Ent. t. 718. Erichson, Gen. et Spec. 

 Staph. 178. Fairm. et Laboul. Faune, i. 467. Erich. Nat. der Insecten, 

 ii. 44. 



" Niger, dense cinereo-pubescens, antennis anoque ferrugineis, pedibus piceis, 

 coleoptris thorace tertia fere parte longioribus, apice rufesceutibus. Long. 

 Hlin." 



Arthur Adams, 

 Wm. Balfour Baikie. 



