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8. pellucidus, Kies. Occurs ia the birch wooda of the Highlands, Rannoch, &c. 

 abundant in Strathcannich, Invernesahire. 



4. mysticus, Kies. Discovered by Mr. Bold in Northumberland ; Galloway and 



Strathcannich, rare. 



5. guttifer, Kiea. Rare, Galloway, Strathcannich, Garelochead. 



6. cUspar, Germ. Sparingly both in England and Scotland; Weybridge, Cam- 



bridge, Galloway. 



7. flxivoquUatns, Kies. Galloway and Beauly in Invernesshire ; occurs likewise, 



I believe, in Cornwall. 



8. misellus, Kies. The only locality for this species at present is, I believe, 



Dumfries, where I found half-a-dozen specimens in May, last year ; all 

 were males. 



9. fihulatus, Kies. Introduced into Mr. Crotch's Catalogue on the authority of 



specimens found by Mr. Wollaston at Withington. I have captured it 

 myself at Eastbank, near Edinburgh. 

 10. atomus, Thorns. 



hrevicolUs, Kies., Wat Cat. 

 Tolerably common both in England and Scotland. A very considerable fact 

 with respect to this species is the disparity in the number of the sexes. Kiesen- 

 wetter says that though he has examined hundreds of females he has seen but three 

 males, one of which was taken in copula with a female. I have myself seen several 

 scores of the female found in this country, but only a single male ; this was taken 

 by Dr. Power (near London, I believe). 



The above 10 species comprise all the Malthodes I am able to speak of with 

 certainty as found in this country. In Mr. Crotch's Catalogue there is included 

 one, M. nigelluSy Kies. (= hrevicolUs, Pk.), of which I have made no mention, the 

 unique specimen on which it was introduced having been unfortunately destroyed, 

 so that all I can do is to call attention to the fact that this species is not improbably 

 to be found in Britain. In Dr. Power's collection are specimens of a species closely 

 allied to atonius, Th. ; they are all females, and I am therefore unable to say 

 whether they are a distinct species or merely a variety of atomus. In the col- 

 lections of Messrs Rye and Crotch are specimens of the female of a species of this 

 genus, with which I am unacquainted, unless they should prove to be the female 

 of M. misellus, a species only taken once in this country, and of which all the 

 specimens then found were, as I have stated above, males. — Id. 



Capture of Lithocharis maritima near South Shields. — I have in my collection 

 two specimens of Lithocharis maritima, Aube (castanea, Wat. Cat.), which I took 

 on the sands, near South Shields, in May. — Thos. J>ro. Bold, Long Benton, New- 

 castle-on Tyne, May I2th, 1868. 



Note on Aphodius nemoralis and A. constans. — I have a specimen of Aphodius 

 nemoralis, Er., which was taken near Elgin, Morayshire ; and a fine male of 

 AphodA,iAS constans, Duft., found by myself, on the sea-coast, a little to the north of 

 Whitley, Northumberland, in April. — Id. 



