178 I January, 



Cetptophaous bubfumatus, Kraatz, Stettin, cnt. Zeit., 1856, p. 2il. 

 A single specimen from the London district, in Mr. G. C. Cham- 

 pion's collection, ia corroborated as belonging to this species by M. 

 Brisout. It resembles G. validus, Ktz., being nearly as large, but 

 narrower, especially in the thorax, of which the anterior callosities are 

 more distinctly prominent. 



Atomauia diyisa, sp. n. 



Breviter ovaJis, convexa, fere (jihhula, siih-glahra, rufo-ferruginea, 

 fhorace haud transversa, antrorsum leviter anr/iistato, hasi ant/uste hatid 

 profu7ide transversim i?iiprcsso, viarginis medio haud eJevato ; eJytris 

 iiiqris, apice hu7nerisque rufescentibus, parce evidenter punctatis, femori- 

 hus piceis. Long. corp. | lin. (Anglic). 



Habitat Angliam. 



Closely allied to A. rubricollis, Bris., from which it differs in its 

 much shorter build, the much stronger punctuation of its elytra, which 

 are less contracted behind, its black scutellum, almost quadrate thorax, 

 and darker femora. 



Of English species, it can only be compared with A. nigripennis, 

 on account of its red head and thorax and black elytra ; it differs, 

 however, from that well-marked species in its shorter and more convex 

 build, in its thorax being longer, more convex, much less narrowed in 

 front, with a scarcely visible basal transverse depression, and no eleva- 

 tion before the scutellum, the less contracted lower third of its elytra, 

 which are more strongly punctured, and have reddish humeral points 

 and apex, and in its darker femora. 



A single specimen, in my own collection. 



Nanophtes gracilis, Eedt, 



A specimen of the insect recorded as British by me under this 

 name, has been returned by M. Brisout as iVl genicidatus, Aube. M. 

 Brisout says " il est bien possible que ce soit aussi le gracilis, Eedt." 

 I have forwarded the specimen to Dr. Eedtenbacher, who tells me 

 that, after a careful comparison of my insect with the type of his 

 species, he finds the two are perfectly identical. 



The synonymy will therefore stand : — 



Nanophyes gracilis, L. Eedtenbacher, Fauna Austriaca, Edn. 1 

 (1849), p. 370. 



geniculafus, Aube, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1864, 

 p. 327. 



