H) [Juno, 



Atomaria ruMATA, Er. 



M. Bi'isout has also returned the insect brought forward by myself 

 under this name, and recently queried in Dr. Sharp's catalogue, as the 

 continental notion of A. fumata. 



CoRTiCAKiA OBSCUEA, Ch. Brisout. 



M. Brisout considers the insect recorded by me with some reser- 

 vation under this name {cf. Ent. Ann., 1872, p. 71) to be possibly 

 longicoUis, Thorns., with the diagnostic characters of which, however, 

 as compared with C. serrata, it does not seem to me in the least to ac- 

 cord. As, however, there are so many species described in this genus, 

 of which there is great uncertainty, I refrain for the present from 

 adding to the difficulty of disentangling them by describing this one 

 as new without further evidence. 



AntIIICUS SCOTICUS, Sp. 11. 



Pliimheo-niqer, opacus, puhe griseo-micanti dense vestifus, antennis 

 pedibusq^ue vel luride testaceis vel fere totis piceo-fuscis ; capite lato, 

 postice truncato, fortius confertim fere rugidoso-pxinctato, lined longitu- 

 dinali mediand Icevi; thorace brevi, confertim at minus fortiter punctata ; 

 elytris qitnm thorax multo latiorihus, ad basin truncatis, convexis, lateri- 

 bus pro parte apicali tertid breviter ovatis, sat fortiter fere confluentim 

 punctatis. Long. corp. \\ tin. (Anglic). 



This is the insect discussed by me in Ent. Mo. Mag., iii, p. 233, 

 and Ent. Ann., 1868, p. 70 ; and which, as it does not in the least ac- 

 cord with A. ater or A.flavipes, Panz., to both of which it has been 

 referred, and as I have recently had it returned by M. Ch. Brisout as 

 unknown to him, I now describe as new. It is the Anthicus 6 sp. nor. ? 

 of Wat. Cat., and has been found, according to Mr. A. Murray, at 

 Eaehills and in Aberdeenshire ; it has also been sent to me by Mr. 

 MoitIs Young, of Paisley, and has recently occurred in some numbers 

 to Dr. Boswell Syme and Mr. E. A. Waterhouse on the shores of Loch 

 Leven. 



Of our recorded species it most resembles A. ang'ustalus, Curtis, 

 from which it differs in its stouter and shorter antenna?, larger size, 

 broader build, darker limbs, broader and shorter thorax, which is more 

 globular in front, and has no tendency to pitchy-red in color, much 

 broader elytra, which are transversely truncate at the base (with very 

 evident and almost square shoulders), and rather more closely punc- 

 tured, &c. 



