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LATiFEONS, Erichsoti. About the size of fulvicornis, from which 

 it differs in being more linear, with much shorter elytra, rather duller, 

 the legs, antennae, and palpi darker, and the punctuation not so strong. 

 It also much resembles brunnipes, from which it may be known by its 

 strongly bilobed tarsi, more linear shape, and less defined frontal eleva- 

 tion. Black, rather dull ; legs pitchy-red, often nearly black. Antennae 

 and palpi pitchy, the latter with the basal joint and base of the second 

 testaceous. The antennae are sometimes almost entirely testaceous. 

 Head wide, depressed, with a wide, very slightly elevated, intei'stitial 

 space. Thorax very closely punctured. Elytra more coarsely punc- 

 tured, about the same length as the thorax. Abdomen cylindrical, 

 elongate, linear, closely and rather strongly punctured. 



Northumb., Cumb., aud Falkirk, rare. Not uncommon in the Fens, 

 at Boston, Preston, Brighton, Weston, and London district. 



roENiCATTJS, {Kirhy) Stephens. 

 contractus, Erichson. 



1 liu. Deep black, shining. Antennae pitchy, sometimes pitchy- 

 brown, especially lighter at the base ; palpi with the basal joint testa- 

 ceous ; tibiae with the base white. Head small, thickly and deeply 

 punctured, with a very small, smooth, middle elevation. Thorax as 

 wide as long ; coarsely, deeply, and closely punctured, the interstices 

 rugulose. Elytra inflated, much wider than the head and thorax, very 

 coarsely and deeply punctured, but not so closely as on the thorax, the 

 interstices almost rugulose. Abdomen considerably narrower than the 

 elytra, short and attenuate. 



Horning Fen, "Weston, and Colney Hatch. Once found at Ham- 

 mersmith Marshes by Mr. Waterhouse. 



Having now completed the descriptions of our species in this genus, 

 in all sixty-two, (of which two are, to say the least, doubtful), it re- 

 mains for me to beg a lenient opinion for the necessarily clumsy way 

 in which I have discharged my unaccustomed task of describing; I 

 hope to do better on future occasions, as I intend to continue the work 

 thus commenced. 



I shall be glad to receive local lists of captures in the Brachelytra 



from any provincial Coleopterists. 



E. C. ETE. 



284, King's Eoad, Chelsea, S.W. 



10th Sept., 1864. 



