27»> THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



in circutncinctus, but which lack the smooth facets of the thorax of that 

 species. This is the circutncinctus seen in some Canadian lists, but the 

 true circutncinctus does not inhabit Canada. 



Aleochara graciliformis, Fauv. This species, though named many 

 years ago by Mr. A. Fauvel (as I am informed), has never found a place 

 in our catalogue. It has been in my collection from various places in 

 Ontario for several years. It is a very pretty species, black, thorax with- 

 out impression, legs and elytra bright rufous ; an occasional individual has 

 the sides of the elytra narrowly black, and while such are more finely 

 punctate and have darker legs they are not considered distinct. 



Philonthus politus, Linn, (aeneus Rossi). This species was cor- 

 rectly determined by both Kirby and Macklin. It is nearly cosmopolite. 

 The politus of our catalogue must be changed to fuscipetmis, Mann, 

 These are the latest decrees of synonymists. 



Creophilus maxillosus, Linn. Systematists now recognize but one 

 species of creophilus as inhabiting North and South America, Asia, 

 Northern Africa and Europe. It exists in about ten named varieties or 

 variations, villosus, Grav., and bicinctus, Mann., being the American forms, 



Bolitochara picta, Fauv. This species was as abundant as in Penn- 

 sylvania, being gregarious on mushrooms. My types of this species are 

 from Mr. F. Blanchard, for whom it was determined by Mr. A. Fauvel, 

 It has the habit of a Gyrophsena. The antennae, head, thorax, and last 

 segments of the abdomen are dark ; the legs, 3 to 4 segments of the 

 abdomen, and pro and mesothorax are pale ; the elytra are pale, with an 

 ill-defined triangular space posteriorly and sometimes a spot around the 

 scutellum dusky. There is at the middle of the base of the thorax a cir- 

 cular depression marked anteriorly with two comma-like impressions. 

 Length, . 10 inch. 



Baptoltnus ? longiceps, Fauv. As Mr. A. Fauvel has stated that he 

 had seen examples of longiceps from Canada, special search was made for 

 that species, resulting in the taking of four examples, which, while not 

 agreeing with Mr. Fauvel' s characters of longiceps in every respect as 

 given in his synopsis ("Tete alongee, non transverse, un peu plus etroite 

 que le corselet ; corps brim; elytres ponctuees"), probably do not vary be- 

 yond specific limits ; the elytra are rather alutaceous than punctured ; the 

 form of the head — "long or transverse" — is opinionative ; the colour 

 of the elytra, thorax and head, piceous. One example taken here 

 and two others at Ligonier, in the Alleghanies, are in every way identical 



