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House, Yorkshire, and presented to me by Mr. Simmons, who un- 

 fortunately had laid a book upon it whilst on the setting-board, by 

 which accident the antennae were broken off and lost. 



Fam. Telephokid^. 



Genus 188. Telephorus. 

 20. Mthiops. Black, shining, clothed with short ochreous pubescence: 

 trophi and base of antennae beneath ochreous : thorax transverse, a 

 little narrowed before, sides margined and lurid : elytra thickly punc- 

 tured : legs piceous, base of tibise ochreous : 2 to 24- lines long. 



Having taken many specimens of this insect, none of which agree 

 with Fabricius's description of his C. pulicaria, nor with Olivier's 

 figure, which has the entire border of the thorax ochreous, I have 

 retained the name I first proposed. They were found on rushes and 

 grass the middle of June 1827, on the sides of Red Skrees, a moun- 

 tain near Ambleside, where I also discovered the true Linnsean T. ob- 

 scurus, for which other varieties had been substituted in the London 

 cabinets up to that period. 



2 lb. apicalis. 



This is probably a variety of T. fuscicornis of Olivier : the antennae 

 and palpi are darker, and it is distingiushed by a blackish stripe 

 down the four anterior thighs and tibiae. 



27. unicolor. Long and narrow : clothed with short pubescence : entirely 

 ochreous excepting the eyes, which are black and prominent, and the 

 fuscous wings : thorax bright, shining, not transverse ovate, the base 

 truncated, all the angles rounded : elytra duller, thickly punctured, 

 with 2 obscure longitudinal lines on each : 4 lines long, 1 broad. 



As this does not agree with Paykull's description of C. pilosa, I 

 have retained my name. It was taken on the wing in the evening 

 in Darent Wood. 



Fam. BosTRiciDJE. 

 Genus 331. Bostrichus. 



3. Waringii. Ochreous, shining ; head black, concave ; thorax pale ferru- 

 ginous, scabrous, with longish ochreous hairs in front ; elytra punctate- 

 striate, the suture piceous, an elongate oval space on the outer margin, 

 and a stripe down the middle of each beyond the centre, but not reach- 

 ing the apex, piceous also ; underside blackish, legs deep ochreous : 

 length 1^ line. 



I am indebted to Mr. Waring for my specimen, which he took in 

 a house in Bristol. It is allied to B. domesticus, Linn. 



