87 
OBSated. Thomson (Sk. Col., vi, 297), besides these characters, states 
,mila has 3 stria, on the tibi^ and first joint, of the tarsi of the poetenor 
,lnlst hrevicauJn has 4 stria, on the same relative members. These stn.e 
liquely from the upper ridge and cross the outer side of the tibi^ and tarsi, 
e not very easy of definition in all lights ; on careful examination, indeed, m 
I positions, .nore than the specified number can be seen in each case,-but 
.at in the insect I suppose to be Irevicauda there are more than in purmla, 
t-e should be.- E. C. Eye, 7, Park Field, Putney, S.W. 
■a^Ure i. Bntain of Hydroporus discretus.-At the joint excursion of the 
ckshire Naturalists' Club and the Dumfries and Galloway Natural History 
ntiquarian Society to Newcastleton, in Roxburghshire, on the 29 h of July 
[ took Hydroporus discretus, Fairm. Dr. Sharp informs me that it agrees 
;he specimens already captured by him, and brought forward among other 
,depL,a in an earlier part of the present number.-W. E- McNab, Southern 
ies Asylum, Dumfi-ies, Augxist 1869. 
.ote on ne«,Bntis/.sp.aeso/^ntWm.s.-Inthe2ndpartofM.J.Desbrochers 
oc.es' Monograph of the European Balaninid<B and AnthonomidcB (Ann. de la 
Ent de France, 1868, p. 411 et seq.) are descriptions of certain species 
.stin.. to English Coleopterists, and to which I will now briefly call attention. 
intjLmus pulescens, Payk., Gyll. No reference is made to Britain as a 
ty for this species, which appears in Waterhouse's Catalogue -* ^ q-r^' 
.here seems to be no doubt that the insect taken at Rannoch by the late 
Ies Turner, and represented by Mr. Waterhouse's queried species, is puhescens, 
Antnonomus hritannus, des L., I.e., 429. This species, attributed solely to 
and, appears to have been described from an insect communicated by M,. 
.h, under the name of pubesceus, Walton. M. des Loges remarks, however, 
it has only very slight resemblance to puUscens, Payk., being more like 
..us,sibi; and that the shortness of its rostrum (which is almost dull) it 
^tuation, the form of its stria, and its feeble femoral teeth easily distmguish it 
. its allies. The insect is shortest-ovate, convex, ahnost glabrous, entirely 
ish-ferruginous, and smaller than any of our species. An English descnption 
. will be found in the late Mr. Walton's Notes on Cr.culionid. (Ann. and Mag. 
rat. Hist., 1844) ; from which it appears that three specimens of it were taken 
[erefordshire by Mr. Doubleday. 
AniHonomus CKcrolati, I.e., 430. This is described from specimens from 
iers, Lyons, the Pyrenees, England, and elsewhere. Its short convex foi^ 
shape of its thorax (described as very transverse, slightly nai-rowed at the 
a and very much so at the apex, with the sides conspicuously rounded before 
middle), the curving of the anterior fascia of its elytra towards the scutellum, 
its smooth interstices, are stated to distinguish it easily from all other species 
.mbUng it in color, none of which, however, are specifically compared with it 
M. des Loges. 
Anthonomus^hniaudpediculoA-ius. M. des Loges is anticipated by 24 years 
