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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 i 
w.th om- other two species. Thomson restores Kirby's name, Phyllodecta, for 
the genus. ' 
6. Alenchara lygasa, 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 his' 
collection, and that it agreed with a specimen of Aleoclu.ra lyg.a he had received 
from Dx-. Kraatz: this latter specimen he kindly sent for my inspection, and a 
.ompanson left me no doubt as to the specific identity of the specimens. Havinc. 
m .he appearance of A. ,n<Bsta, A. lyg.a is closely allied to A. lanuginosa, but has 
jhB abdommal segments throughout densely punctured, and one or two other 
M-erences of form and structure not very easy to appreciate. I have found it very 
•arely m this neighbourhood. 
^ Oxypodaflavicomis, Kr., Ins. Deutschlands, ii, 185. 
Of this species I have two specimens which I captured among decaying fir 
)rancheg on the Pinkard HUls, late in the autumn of 1864. 
u Philonthus nigriventris, Th., Sk. Col., ix, 147. 
Near P. cephalotes, but smaller, darker coloured, and with very thickly punc 
ored elyti-a. It has the colour of P. sordidus, but camiot be confounded with that 
peczes on account of the close punctuation of the elytra. I have found it sparingly 
ere m a dead partridge, and also in a heap of cut grass in the garden, in company 
ath P. addendus, mihi, and twenty-two other species of the genus.-D. Sharp 
hornhill, Dumfries, August 3rd, 1868. ' 
Occurrence of AUagmus megatoma. Fab., in London. -Seeing that this insect is 
mnd in almost all parts of Europe, and in Syria, North America, the West Indies 
[adeira, Gomera (Canaries), &c., I have often wondered that it has not been 
etected m this country; especially as it is of domestic habits, Uke its congener, 
niio, and others of its allies in our lists which have no better claims to be con- 
dered as truly indigenous. 
In July last I caught a male specimen of it in Finsbuiy Circus, London. 
Its average smaller size, narrower shape, entirely unspotted surface, and (in 
e male) the veiy long apical joint to its antenna, at once separate it from the 
mmon A. pelli^.-T. V. Wollaston, Teignmonth, August, 1868. 
Capture of Malthodes fihuUtus, Kies.-l took three specimens of Malthodes 
ulatus (named for me by Mr. G. R. Crotch) by beating, at Mickleham, in the 
iddlG of May last.-G. C. Champion, 274, Walworth Road, London, S., 22nd 
%, 3868. 
New locality for Malthodes fibulatus.-On the 15th May last I took two speci- 
5ns of this beetle, by sweeping, at Headley Lane, near Mickleham, which I beheve 
be a new locahty for the species.— J. G. Maksh, 842, Old Kent Road, S.E., 
''9ust, 1868. 
