Insects. 



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Bolitochara lucida. Two. Kenmore. 



Quedius xanthopus. Four. Under stones near birch trees, Kenmore. 

 Philonthus lucens. Rannoch. 

 Tachinus collaris. Blair Atholl. 

 T. laticollis. Kenmore. 



Baptolinus alternans. Four. Under bark, Blair Alholl. 

 Geodromicus nigrita. 



Cryptohypnus dermestoides. Eight. Rannoch. 

 Otiorhynchus monticola. Twelve. Rannoch. 

 O. pabulinus. 



Barynotus obscurus. Blair Atholl. 



I must also record the capture, at Rannoch, of Adimonia Tanaceti, its occurrence 

 so far North having been quile unexpected. — H. Montague ; Boxley House. 



Calosoma sycophanta in Devonshire. — On the 21st of July, this year (1862), I 

 accompanied a botanical friend to the Devonshire Moors. In a pathway at the foot 

 of Ugborough Beacon (a hill belonging to the Dartmoor range) there lay on the 

 ground portions of this grand geodephagous coleoptevon, consisting of both elytra, a 

 leg, and some lesser fragments. These parts were all fresh, showing that the insect 

 had very recently been slain and the softer portions carried off. The elytra were very 

 brilliant, appearing as though the insect had just assumed the perfect state. Some 

 coleopterists do not consider this insect a British species, — an opinion I concurred in 

 until I met with it in the way just mentioned, but now feel certain it is truly an indi- 

 genous species. The woods and small forests in and about the Devonshire Moors will 

 by-ancl-bye be proved to be habitats for this fine beetle. Mr. Dawson, in his * Geode- 

 phaga Britannica,' considers Calosoma sycophanta "not truly indigenous.'' This 

 opinion is arrived at because specimens of the insect have more frequently been found 

 on the coast than inland, and because no one has testified to its being a regular inha- 

 tant of some well-known locality. I think, however, now that it has occurred in such 

 a district as the one alluded to, and although but one specimen was observed, there 

 must be established, in the minds of the sceptical on the point in dispute, a belief 

 favourable to the view that this insect is truly indigenous. — J.J. Reading ; Plymouth. 



Cryptocephalus WasastjerncE Discovered in Britain. — I have long thought that our 

 Cryptocephalus labiatus must include some other of the many little black species 

 recorded by Suffrian, and I was pleased to find the other day among my specimens of 

 that insect four or five of the C. Wasastjernse, Cry//., easily recognised by the roughly 

 punctured thorax and different colouring of the head.— G. R. Crotch; Uphill House, 

 Weston-super-Mare, November 25, 1862. 



Occurrence of Xantholinus sapphirina near Croydon. — Among some Coleoptera 

 taken at Croydon, in the summer of 1861, and which, owing to my absence from Eng- 

 land for a year, have not been examined till lately, is one belonging to the family 

 Staphylinidae, which has been ascertained to be Xantholinus sapphirina, a Brazilian 

 insect of great beauty. It has been suggested to me (and is, I think, probably near 

 the truth), that the insect may have been imported to Sydenham in a larva state 

 in mould with some Brazilian plant.— W. S. Rooke ; Pilstone House, Coleford, Glou-\ 

 cesler shire. 



Notes on Phryganidce, $-c. — I have much pleasure in recording the capture, on 

 May 21st, at Dunsford, of a Trichopterous insect new to Britain — Mormouia basalis, 

 Kolenali. I have given a pair to the British Museum, so that other British collectors 



