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form, and the broad excavation on the front of the head. It is, I believe, not 

 uncommon, though it is difficult to understand how we can have confounded it 

 with our other two species. Thomson restores Kirby's name, Phyllodecta, for 

 the genus. 



6. Aleocliara lygcea, Kraatz, 



I sent, last winter, a specimen of this insect as an Aleochara new to us, to Mr. 

 Crotch, when he informed me that he had two specimens of it already in hia 

 collection, and that it agreed with a specimen of Aleochara hfgcea he had received 

 from Dr. Kraatz : this latter specimen he kindly sent for my inspection, and a 

 comparison left me no doubt as to the specific identity of the specimens. Having 

 all the appearance of A. moesta, A. lygcsa is closely allied to A. lanuginosa^ but has 

 the abdominal segments throughout densely punctured, and one or two other 

 differences of foi-m and structure not very easy to appreciate. I have found it very 

 rarely in this neighbourhood. 



7. OxypodafiavicomiSf.Kv., Ins. Deutschlands, ii, 185. 



Of this species I have two specimens which I captured among decaying fir 

 branches on the Pinkard Hills, late in the autumn of 1864. 



8. PhilontTms nigriventris, Th,, Sk. Col., ix, 147. 



Near P. cephalotes, but smaller, darker coloured, and with very thickly punc- 

 tured elytra. It has the colour of P. sordAdus, but cannot be confounded with that 

 species on account of the close punctuation of the elytra. I have found it sparingly 

 here in a dead partridge, and also in a heap of cut grass in the garden, in company 

 with P. addenduSf mihi, and twenty-two other species of the genus. — D. Sharp, 

 Thomhill, Dumfries, August Zrd, 1868. 



Occiim-ence of Attagenus megatoma, Fab.^ in London. — Seeing that this insect is 

 found in almost all parts of Europe, and in Syria, North America, the West Indies, 

 Madeira, Gomera (Canaries), &c., I have often wondered that it has not been 

 detected in this country ; especially as it is of domestic habits, Uke its congener, 

 pellio, and others of its allies in our lists which have no better claims to be con- 

 sidered as truly indigenous. 



In July last I caught a male specimen of it in Finsbury Circus, London. 



Its average smaller size, narrower shape, entirely unspotted surface, and (ia 

 the male) the very long apical joint to its antennae, at once separate it from the 

 common A. pellio. — T. V. Wollaston, Teignmouth, August, 1868. 



Capture of Malthodes fibulatus, Kies. — I took three specimens of Malthodes 

 fihulatus (named for me by Mr. G. E. Crotch) by beating, at Mickleham, in the 

 middle of May last. — G. C. Champion, 274, Walworth Eoad, London, S., 22nd 

 July, 1868. 



New locality for Malthodes fibulatus. — On the 15th May last I took two speci- 

 mens of this beetle, by sweeping, at Headley Lane, near Mickleham, which I believe 

 to be a new locality for the species.— -J. G. Maksh, 842, Old Ktnt Read, S.E., 

 August, 1868. 



