5448 Entomological Society. 



The large size, broader form and uniform brownish black colour will readily 

 separate this species from the following. Of it (spinifer) I have only one specimen, 

 which I took by sweeping Cakile maritima, on the sea-coast near Hartley, Northum- 

 berland : — 



2. Phytosus nigriventrts, Chev. Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xiv. 257, t. 3, f. 6 

 Fairm. et Laboul. Faune, i. 467. Erichson, Nat. der Insecten, ii. 43. 

 Myrmedonia nigriventris, Chev. Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 42. 

 Phytosus spinifer, mas., Curtis, Brit. Ent. t. 718. Steph. Man. p. 417. 

 Phytosus spinifer, fem., Erich. Gen. et Spec. Staph. 178, 1. 



" Nigro-piceus, dense cinereo-pubescens, antennis, thorace, elytris, ano pedibusque 

 flavo-testaceis, coleopteris thorace dimidio fere brevioribus. Long. l£ lin." 



Easily known by its narrow form, pale colour and much abbreviated elytra. T 

 evidently have both sexes; in one the head is large, with the antennae long, the 

 abdomen shorter and more obtuse at its apex ; this, I fancy, will be the male, 

 although MM. Fairmaire and Laboulbene are of opinion that the small narrow 

 individuals are of that sex. Taken, beneath Algae, on the Durham and Northumbrian 

 coasts. — Thomas John Bold ; Long Benton, Newcastle-on-Tyne, January 12, 1857. 



Capture of Anommatus \2-striatus in the North of England. — In working up 

 some undetermined Coleoptera to-day, I detected a single specimen of Anommatus 

 duodecim-striatus, Mull., a species, I think, not hitherto recorded as British. My 

 brother took it on a decaying plant of the cultivated pansy, in a garden at Morpeth, 

 Northumberland, so far back as the 9th of August, 1847. The beautiful figure of 

 Sturm (xxi. pi. 391) and the careful description of Erichson (Natur. der Insecten, 

 iii. 286) leave me without a doubt of its specific identity. — Id.; January 1, 1857. 



Proceedings of Societies. 

 Entomological Society. 

 December 1, 1856. — J. 0. Westwood, Esq., Vice-President, in the chair. 



Donations. 



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 Deuxieme Serie, Tome vii. IrePartie; presented by La Societe Imperiale d'Agri- 

 culture, &c, de Lyon. 'Annales de la Societe Linneenne de Lyon,' Annees 1854, 

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