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The genus PHLOIOBIUM, Dej., as in Megwrthrus, has the apical joint only of its 
antennae incrassate, though scarcely so evidently as in the majority of the species 
of the latter : and the keel of the 2nd abdom. segment is sharper than in Protinus. 
Its single species, P. clijpeatum, MiilL, Er., Kr., is at once to be known by its 
possessing a single ocellus (or polished round prominence resembling an ocellus) 
in the middle of the vertex, between the true eyes. It somewhat resembles a very 
long and narrow specimen of M. h,&)yiipterus, with the head, in petto, of a Scarahceus, 
the anterior margin being strongly produced, and widely hollowed out in the 
middle. It averages 14 lin. in length, and is very duU, strongly punctured, and 
entirely testaceous, except the eyes and antennae, which (barring the apical, and 
sometimes the basal, joint) are pitchy-black. It is not uncommon in cut grass, &c. 
In the male the middle and hinder femora and tibijB are slightly thickened, the 
latter being curved, and, as it were, constricted on the inner side just below the 
middle. 
It appears to have escaped the observation of Erichson and Kraatz (Thomson 
not recording the species), and possibly for the reason above suggested with regard 
to the same characters in M. hemipterus, that in the male of this insect the apical 
segment itself has an evident longitudinal groove, the penult, segment has au 
angular emarginaiion, the sides of which are thickened and elevated, so that the 
groove of the apical segment is, as it were, carried on to the penult, segment, 
and the ante-penult, segment is deeply hollowed out in a semicircular way for its 
entire width.— E. C. Ryk, 7, Park Field, Putney, S.W., Jamiary, 1868. 
Notes on Coleoptera at Barmouth, ^e. — Last August I bred a considerable 
number of Cryptarcha strigata, from a couple of large pear-shaped puflF-balls, found 
on flat sandy pastures near the coast at Barmouth. This seems to be a very 
curious locality for the insect, which usually occurs under bark, at sap, or in Cossus- 
burrows, and is generally considered a tree-species. I also took commonly, in 
small silvery-grey puff-balls, in similar sandy places, the larvEO of Dorcatoma 
hovistcB, from which I bred a good series of the perfect insect. On the sand-hills 
themselves I found the usual coast beetles commonly ; e. g., Cicindela hyhriday 
Anomala (one of the green var.), Microzown, Phaleria, Saprinus maritimus, Oxytehts 
maritimus, Aleochara ohscurella, &o. 
On Chatmoss I found a pair of the usually littoreal PhilontJms umbratilis, at 
the sap exuding ft-om a freshly-cut fir-stump ; and in October I took a pair of 
Ha/rpalus rupicola on muddy deposits of the Mersey, two or three miles from 
Manchester, and far from any chalk. — J. Kidson Taylor, Thorn Cottage, Lima 
Grove, Longsight, Manchester, 1st January, 1868. 
Captures of Lepidoptera in the Isle of Wight. — The season of 1867 is past, and 
I can aver that insects here have not been nearly so plentiful as in 1866. The 
following remarks may not be uninteresting. Sallows were particularly unpro- 
ductive, although I worked very hard at them from February 23rd to April 1st. 
I could take nothing but common species, T. miniosa being the best. June pro- 
duced several dozens of M. Cinxia, L. Adonis, and A. lactuosa. Autumn turned out 
more favourable. C. Edusa was plentiful, and I took two fine specimens of the 
var. HeUce. On August 21st I found eggs oi EdMsa, which hatched five days after- 
