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2. Lathrohium aiigustatum, Boia. ; Kr., Ins. Deutsch., ii, 678. 



Tliis species occurs rarely in various parts of the centre and soutli of England. 

 It is placed in some collections as L. rufipenne, to which it bears, however, a resem- 

 blance only in size and colour. L. angustatvm is more slender than L. rujvpenne^ 

 with long joints to the antennae ; it has a narrower head, which is more densely 

 and finely punctured, &c. I have seen specimens of L. rufipenne in the collections 

 of Dr. Power and Mr. Crotch, besides in my own. The only locality I know of for 

 it is the Norfolk fens. 



3. Stenus incanus, Er., Gen. et spec. Staph., 700, 19. 



I have found a few specimens of this species on the banks of the Nith here. 

 It belongs to Kraatz's group of black-legged species with simple tarsi. 



4. Corylophus suhlcevipennis, Duv. 



This species was captured last autumn by Mr. Crotch and myself, under some 

 flood refuse, near Weymouth. — D. Sharp, Thornhill, Dumfries, 9^72- Deceynher^ 1868. 



Note on Litholms forcipatus. — Mr. Bold's note on LitJiohius forcipatus (p. 170) 

 reminds me that on several occasions I have seen a Lithohius at sallows, bent on 

 the same errand as myself ; and occasionally I have seen a Hyhemia projemmaHob 

 held tight in the centipede's jaws, but I never saw a noctua — not even Tceniocampa 

 cruda — captured by it. And I have known spiders attack fresh specimens on my 

 setting-boards. — J. Hellins, Exeter, December, 1868. 



Notes on (MotschulskianJ British Coleoptera, Sfc. — Among the voluminous 

 references to Insects contained in Part 2 (by Mr. W. S. Dallas) of " The Kecord of 

 Zoological Literatm-e," vol. iv, 1867, are the following, which can hardly fail to 

 interest British Coleopterists. 



(p. 231) Stenolophus anglicus, Voet, occurs in Denmark, according to Schiodte, 

 who figures its larva in Naturh. Tidsskr., 3rd Ser., iv, 535, pi. 22, figs. 12 — 18. 



T am not aware to what recognized species Voet's Buprestis anglicus is properly 

 referable. It does not appear in any shape in Harold's recently published compre- 

 hensive Cataloge. From the plate (xxxv, fig. 18) in Voet's Cat. Syst. Col. (vol. i, 

 p. 67, 18), the insect would seem to be one of the Oeodephaga, and possibly, there- 

 fore, a Stenolophus; but the description is ludicrously vague, and no locality 

 whatever is given for the species. 



There is another of Voet's species, Bwprestis erythrocephalus Anglus, figured in 

 pi. xxxvi, fig. 26, stated distinctly to occur in England, and which is clearly recog- 

 nizable as Brachinus crepitans. If Linneeus' name were not a trifle earlier in date, 

 I suppose Schiodte would have proposed to adopt Voet's names for this insect, — or 

 one (and, if so, which ?) of them. Fabricius (Spec. Insect.) quotes Voet for this 

 species, but ignores the " anglicus.'^ 



(p. 242) Necrophorus gallicus, Duv., and N. microcephalus, Thoms., are respectively 

 referred as vars. to N. fossor and N. ruspator by Grenier, in Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., 

 1867, p. X ; an opinion anticipated by myself in Ent. Annual, 1866. 



(p. 246) Motschulsky, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc, xxix, 2, p. 225, thinks the Lathridii 

 most nearly allied to the Trichopterygidce. He founds a new genus, Aeidius 

 (1. c, p. 260), of which our L. nodifer is the type, and describes and figures a 

 new species, A. nodulosus (p. 261, pi. 6, fig. 7) from England. 



