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with the apical joint conspicuously broader and shorter, and not so acuminate. 

 Taken at Lee by Mr. Eye, and at Grravesend by Mr. Champion (Eut. Mo. Mag., 

 ix, 8). 



Phalacrus Mumberti, Tourn. 



This insect, recognised as a good species in Ent. Mo. Mag., ix, 37, is abandoned 

 in Ent. Mo. Mag., xii, 177, as being only a small variety of P. coruscus. 



Olihrus affinis, Sturm. 



It is probable that the insects standing in collections under this name ought 

 to be referred to 0. particeps, Muls., but the point docs not seem quite to have been 

 cleared up (Ent. Mo. Mag., ix, 38). 



Olihrus hicolor, F. 



This is apparently not a British insect, our insects standing under this name 

 being all 0. liquidus, Er. ; the true O. hicolor is a larger, rather less elongate, and 

 more convex insect. 



Olihrus lielveticus, Tourn. 



A single specimen of this species is recorded in Ent. Mo. Mag., xii, 177 ; the 

 species of the genus in many cases run so closely one into the other, that further 

 confirmation of this insect seems to be required. 



NITIDULIDiE. 



Carpopliiliis sexpustulatus, P. 



This is a very doubtful, and probably introduced, species. 



Meligethes morosus, Er. 



There is considerable confusion as to this species ; it comes very near M. mem- 

 nonius, Er. A specimen returned to me by one of the chief British authorities on 

 the genus, as not agreeing with any he possessed, was afterwards named for me on 

 the continent as 31. morosus, Er. ; M. morosus is rather shorter than 31. meninonius ; 

 but, otherwise, there appears to be very little difference between them. Mr. Rye, in 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., x, 138, says that M. Ch. Brisout de Barneville considers that M. mem- 

 nonius is intermediate between M. difficilis and 31. morosus, or, perhaps, a variety of 

 one of them. 



Meligethes ocheopus, Sturm. 



Allied to 31. difficilis, Heer, but readily separable from all its allies by its com- 

 paratively broad and short-oval form, and stronger convexity, and especially by the 

 outer margin of its posterior tibite not being rounded, but dilated in almost a straight 

 line until the lower third, where it is suddenly and obliquely contracted (Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., ix, 156). 



Meligethes Kunzei, Er. 



This insect seems to be a variety of 31. difficilis, rather than a separate species. 



