132 [November, 



Length, 2 lines. On Tanacetam vulgare. Ctobham, Surrey. 



Closely allied to M. molliculus, but differing from it in the colour 

 and the absence of the dark band, and the downy pubescence so 

 characteristic of that species. 



I am very glad to be able to add this species again to our list, 

 especially as I was obliged to sink the species described under the 

 name tanaceti by Messrs. Douglas and Scott, as a synonym of Tinice- 

 phalus horttilanus. I may say that Mr. Scott quite agrees with me 

 that the above is Fallen's true species. 



Thus far, I have only found the ? , but hope to get the ^ next 

 year, — the latter seems to be very rare, as Dr. Renter (who finds 

 the ? ) says in his excellent book on the Capsidie of Finland, " Mas 

 mihi incognitus." 



2, Spencer Park, Waudswortli : 

 l^th Octoher, 1875. 



OBSEEVATIONS ON SOME SPECIES OF BOLITOCHARA, WITH 

 DESCRIPTION OF A NEW EUKOPEAN SPECIES. 



BY D. SHARP, M.B. 



Considerable discrepancy prevails in the European collections as 

 to the names of some of the common species of BoJitochara, and I have 

 for a long time been in doubt as to the correct names of the species 

 in my own collection. The recent publication of the part of Mulsant 

 and Rey's " Ilistoire Naturelle dcs Coleopteres de France," treating 

 of the " Bolitocharaires,"' has enabled me to satisfy myself about 

 certain of the points that were doubtful to me, and has also convinced 

 me that 1 have a new species in my collection. E-ey describes in the 

 work alluded to six species, viz., S. lucida, B. elongata, B.Jlavicollis, 

 B. lunulata, B. ohiiqua, and B. varia ; and two of these, viz., B. elon- 

 gata and B.Jlavicollis, he considers to have been unknown to Erichson. 

 The first of these, viz., B. elongata, is undoubtedly a quite distinct 

 species from B. lucida ; but it is not the BoUtochara elongata of Heer, 

 as M. Key supposes. A considerable portion of the types of Heer's 

 species of Staphylinidce came into my possession with Castelnau's col- 

 lection, and among these types are three individuals of BoUtochara 

 elongata, Heer ; these specimens are B. Jlavicoltis, E.ey, with which 

 insect, moreover, I consider that the description of Heer fully agrees 

 (it is inapplicable to B. elongata, Rey). I think, therefore, it would 

 be undesirable to use the name B. elongata a second time, and would 

 propose to call this species B. Mulsanti* 



