86 COLEOPTERA. 



(Melanotics fulvipes, Steph.), with which it may possibly be 

 mixed up in many collections, but from which it may be 

 distinguished by its longer elytra, and the sub-angulated 

 lateral margins of the thorax. 



24. Ampedus subcarinatus, Germar, Zeitschrift fur die 



Entomol. v. 177, 39 (1844) ; E. W. Janson, Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. Lond. n. s. iii. 224(1855). 



Aplotarsus ? cothurnatus, Curtis, Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond. n. s. iii. 16, 7, Tab. II. fig. 7 (1854). 

 Mr. Curtis obtained his specimens from the collection of 

 the late Mr. C. Griesbach, who captured them near Windsor ; 

 Mr. G. Guyon has taken it in Richmond Park; Mr. S. 

 Stevens has met with it on Tooting Common, and I have 

 twice found it at Wanstead : it appears to be very rare. 



25. Otiorhynchus septentrionis, Herbst. 



S. Stevens, Proc. Ent. Soc. London, Nov. 6, 1854, Zool. 

 4564 (1855) ; a single specimen in Mr. S. Stevens's cabinet, 

 taken by Mr. Foxcroft in the summer of 1854 at Rannoch, 

 Perthshire; a second individual in the collection of Mr. J. 

 Curtis, captured in Aberdeenshire, in the summer of the same 

 year, by Mr. Peter Elmslie. 



Observation. — This is enumerated in my list in last year's 

 Annual, but as the reference to the Zoologist is not only in- 

 complete, but inaccurate, the present is perhaps the readiest 

 mode of setting; matters aright. 



26. Bostrichus bispinus (Meg.), Ratzeb. Forst. Insect, i. 

 155, Tab. XIII., fig. 5(1837). 



G. Guyon, Zool. 4815 (1855) ; Richmond, Surrey. 

 Bach, in his " Kaferfauna for Nord und Mitteldeutsch- 

 land," p. 129 (1852), observes that he had met with it in pro- 

 digious numbers in the stems and branches of Clematis 

 vitalba (Traveller's Joy) early in December. 



27. Scolytus Ratzeburgii. 



Eccoptogaster nov. spec, S. Stevens, Proc. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond., Oct. 2, 1854; Zool. 4515 (1854). 



