).

TOMICIDAE.

58. *Pityopthorus lichtensteinii, _var._ SCOTICUS (Blandford).
Scotland.

CURCULIONIDAE.

59. Ceuthorhynchus contractus, _var._ PALLIPES (Crotch). Lundy Island;
several specimens. A curious variety only known from this island.

60. LIOSOMUS TROGLODYTES (Rye). A very queer form. Two or three
specimens. South of England.

61. *Orcheites ilicis, _var._ NIGRIPES (Fowler). London District.
(1890.)

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62. APION RYEI (Blackburn). Shetland Islands. Several specimens.
Perhaps a _var._ of _A. fagi_.

CHRYSOMELIDAE.

63. Chrysomela staphylea, _var._ SHARPI (Fowler). Solway district.

HALTICIDAE.

64. LONGITARSUS AGILIS (Rye). South of England; many specimens.

65. ,, DISTINGUENDA (Rye). South of England; many specimens.

66. PSYLLIODES LURIDIPENNIS (Kutschera). Lundy Island. A very curious
form, not uncommon in this small island, to which it appears to be
confined. "An extreme and local variety of _P. chrysocephala_"
(Fowler).

COCCINELLIDAE.

67. SCYMNUS LIVIDUS (Bold). Northumberland. A doubtful species.

Of the sixty-seven species and varieties of beetles in the preceding list,
a considerable number no doubt owe their presence there to the fact that
they have not yet been discovered or recognised on the continent. This is
almost certainly the case with many of those which have been separated from
other species by very minute and obscure characters, and especially with
the excessively minute Trichopterygidae described by Mr. Matthews. There
are others, however, to which this mode of getting rid of them will not
apply, as they are so marked as to be at once recognised by any competent
entomologist, and often so plentiful that they can be easily obtained when
searched for. The peculiar species of Apion in the Shetland Islands is
interesting, and may be connected with the very peculiar climatal
conditions there prevailing, which have led in some cases to a change of
habits, so that a species of weevil (_Otiorhynchus maurus_) always found on
mountain sides in Scotland here occurs on the sea-shore. Still more curious
is the occurrence of two distinct forms (a species and a well-marked
variety) on the small granitic Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel. This
island is about three miles long and twelve from the coast of Devonshire,
consisting mainly of granite with a little of the Devonian f