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[September, 



[The locality given by Stephens is Powerscourt Falls, Ireland, in holly. It has 

 been taken in profusion at Killarney by Mr. E. Birchall, and conimonly at Mount 

 Edgcumbe, Plymouth, by Mr. T. V. Wollaston.— E. C. K.] 



Addition of eight species of Coleoptera to the British list. — The following names of 

 beetles are entitled to a place in our catalogue, though they do not at present 

 appear therein : — 



1. Meligethes suhrugosus, Sturm. ; Er., Ins. Deutsch., iii, 178, 10. 



A species remarkable for the transverse striae of the elytra, occurring in Germany 

 and Sweden. Found by mo on the banks of the Water of Ken, in Galloway. 



2. Aphodius scrofa, Fab. ; Er., Ins. Deutsch., iii, 85, 44. 



This insect has a very wide distribution in Europe ; and is given as a British 

 species in Stephens' works. But no specimens having occurred of late years, it has 

 been rejected from our recent Catalogues ; unjustly, however, for Mr. Sidcbotham 

 took a specimen two or three years ago at Southport. Though a very distinct and 

 remarkable species, it is small, and might be easily overlooked. 



3. Trachys troglodytes, Schon. ; Kies., Ins. Deutsch., iv, 109, 3. 



Closely allied to the rare T. pygmceus, but of a different colour and form, and at 

 once to be distinguished from that species by the furrow on the front of its head 

 being continued to the margin of the thorax. It occurs on the Continent and in 

 Sweden, but is generally rare. I captured a specimen about three miles from 

 Tliornhill, in a marshy place, during March of the present year. The family 

 Buprestidce was before only represented in Scotland by a single species, AgriVus 

 viridis ; a sad contrast to the thirty-one species Sweden possesses. 



4. Cryptohypnus sahulicola, Boh. ; Thomson, Sk. Col. vi, 113. 



This remarkably fine species cannot be confounded with any at present in our 

 lists. It is, however, pretty closely allied to C pulchellus, from which it can be 

 distinguished by the following characters : — 



C. sahulicola is very much larger, the posterior angles of the thorax are shorter, 

 and are not in the least directed outwards, the raised line commencing at the 

 posterior angle only extends about one-third the length of the thorax, and the 

 sculpture of the thorax is much coarser, especially on the disc. The deep furrows 

 with which the elytra are ornamented reach to the apex. 



Hitherto C. sahulicola has occurred only in Sweden, and there rarely ; it 

 appears to have been unknown to Kiesenwetter at the time of publication of the 

 Insecten Deutschlands, and it finds no place in the last edition of Schaum's Cata- 

 logue of European Coleoptera. I have taken twelve specimens on the banks of the 

 Nith here, but only after many days' unprofitable searching for it. The first speci- 

 mens I found in some heaps of flood refuse, and have since, at different times, 

 found a specimen or two at large. Mr. W. Lennon has also found two specimens 

 on the banks of the river at Dumfries. It is not only very rare, but most diflSicult 

 to secure when seen, for it is very wary, but most active. 



5. Phratora cavifronSy Thoms., Sk. Col., viii, 278. 



Distinguished from P. vulgatissima by its smaller size, regularly striated elytra, 

 different male characters, &c. : from P. vitellvna^ by the long antemiao, more oblong 



