1881] 229 



forest, beyond the usual Morphos, Caligos, and Setcerce, but now tliat tbe 

 rains are nearly over, more species are to be met with daily, and next 

 month, when the mud and water begin to dry up a little (the forest 

 is little better than an immense swamp at this season), still more 

 species will be found. 



To conclude, I must say I believe that such numbers of butterflies 

 (of species there can be no comparison) congregated as are noticed 

 by Mr. Bates and other naturalists in South America, and to 

 be seen frequently in Central America in the dry season, are very 

 seldom, if ever, to be seen outside the tropics ; in the State of Panama 

 alone, there are probably more species than in the whole of Europe. 

 I regret, in the foregoing remarks, I am only able to particularize a 

 few genera, and not having any books whatever by me, have no means of 

 determining species here at this moment. 



Bugabita, Chiriqui, Panama : 



November 23rd, 1882. 



NOTES ON NEW BEITISH COLEOPTERA SINCE 1871 ; 



WITH NOTICES OF DOUBTFUL SPECIES, AND OF OTHERS THAT 



EEQUIRE TO BE OMITTED FROM THE BRITISH LIST. 



BY THE EEV. W. W. TOWLER, M.A., F.L.S. 



{continued from p. 20\.) 



ANISOTOMID^. 



Anisotoma macropus, Rye. 



This species may be distinguished from all but A. Triepkii, by having its pos- 

 terior femora suddenly and obliquely contracted towards the trochanter; it is smaller, 

 longer, narrower, and less convex than A. Triepkii. Taken by Mr. Champion, near 

 Claremont, Surrey (Ent. Mo. Mag., x, 133). 



Akisotoma beunnea, Sturm. 



This species is entirely ferruginous, shining, with a narrow club to its conco- 

 lorous antennse, of which the apical joint is not narrower than the preceding ; its 

 thorax is not sinuate on each side at the base, and the striae on its elytra are fine, 

 with small and closely packed punctures. Taken by Mr. Lawson near Scarborough 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag., ix, 135). 



Anisotoma cueta, Fairm. 



In the same section as A. duhia, from which it may be distinguished by its 

 rather longer build, the much stronger punctuation of its thorax, the sides of which 

 are more contracted behind, and by the apical joint of its antennse being distinctly 

 not as wide as the penultimate joint. Taken by the Rev. T. Laundy Brown near 

 Norwich, and by Mr. Champion at Esher (Ent. Mo. Mag., xii, 150). 



