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with description in all structural points, and I find in Jaoquelin du Val's Bemhidia 

 of Europe (Ann. Soc. Ent. de Franco, 1852, 197) the following passage : — " cette 

 " ospece (quadnsignatum) varie beaucoup par la taille, les stries, i^arfois la couleur, 

 " qui peut devenir brunatre on merae plus clairo, un peu aussi par la formo du 

 " pro-thorax, &c. ; mais Ton retrouve des passages d'une variation h, I'autre." 



It appears, also, that the species in question has been described under different 

 names through this varying habit. 



It is flat, oblong, shining, with two longitudinal grooves in front between the 

 eyes ; the thorax broader than long, sUghtly narrowed behind, with decidedly acute 

 hinder angles, and a well defined basal fovea on each side, extending transversely 

 for the greater part of the hinder margin; the elytra wider than the thorax, having 

 thi-ee deeply impressed and punctulated striaa next the suture, rather faint at the 

 base, and still more so at the apex, with the exception of the first, which is" con- 

 tinued round the apex, and re-curved almost parallel to the sutm-e, the re-curved 

 part being slightly rounded outwards, and ending in a puncture near the termina- 

 tion of the fourth stria, which is not nearly so strong as the three first, but merely 

 punctulated. The other strise are entirely obsolete, except the eighth, or marginal 

 one, which (though faint quite close to the shoulder, below which it has some deep 

 scattered punctures) is very distinct, and especially deeply impressed behind. 



The only British insect like it, even in its smallest, hghtest, and unspotted 

 condition, is a light variety of B. histriatum, from which its deeply impressed 

 and punctulated strise, sharper hind angles to thorax, and brighter surface will 

 serve to distinguish it. — E. C. Rye, 284, King's Road, Chelsea. 



Note on a species of Atomaria nexu to the British lists. 



Atomakia Barani, Ch. Brisout de Barneville, Grenier Cat. des Col. do France, 

 et materiaux, &c., 69, 87 (1863). 



To this species (which has for some time stood in my cabinet with the M.S. 

 name of Wollastoni) must be referred the Hammersmith Marsh specimens, referred 

 to by me in the Ent. Ann. 1865, p. 68, 46, and which were formerly considered by 

 Dr. Kraatz (with doubt) as varieties of A. fumata, Erichs. 



Independently of its more flattened and parallel shape, and finer punctuation, 

 this insect exhibits an entirely difierent habit and coloration to A. fumata, being 

 found in marshy places, and the lightest specimens being almost entirely light 

 reddish-brown, with the suture and apex of elytra darker ; and the darkest pitchy- 

 black with a slight spot at the apex. The intermediate forms have usually a spot 

 at the shoulder, and an obhquo hvid stain near the apex. 



Mr. Sharp baa recently taken a long series, of all colours, in a marshy place at 

 Eltham.— Id. 



Note on a species of TrachyphUcus new to the British lists. 



Trachyphl^us aristatus, Gyll. (Schon. Cure), Ins. Suec, iv., 613, 35-36. 

 stiptdatus, Germ. 



squamulatus, Oliv. var., Walton, ex Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 184J4, 

 83, 4. 

 Messrs. Edward and Charles Watcrhouse having pointed out to me the great 

 difference between the erect scales of certain spocimeus of T. squamulatus, taken 

 recently by us at Soaford, and those of other specimens so named in om- collections, 

 1 rofeiTcd to Walton's notes (loc. cit.), and at once perceived from his remarks, and 

 Gyllenhal's description, that wo have two distinct species under that name. 



