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COLEOPTERA. 



Berlin was returned by that gentleman as a nondescript 

 Adelops. 



Taken beneath decayed leaves, near Finchley, at the be- 

 ginning of August, 1854, at the foot of an old wall, and 

 again, at the same period, in the following year. 



I have dedicated this species to T. Vernon Wollastom 

 Esq., M. A., F. L. S., Author of " Insecta Maderensia," 

 a Treatise " on the Variation of Species, etc. etc." — whose 

 qualifications as a naturalist, liberality, urbanity and purely 

 disinterested and enthusiastic devotion to our science are 

 well and widely known, both here and on the continent — in 

 recognition of the numerous favours received at his hands, and 

 of a debt of gratitude which my best efforts can never liquidate. 

 6. Myrmedonia cognata, Maerkel in Germar, Zeitschr. 

 f. d. Entom. v. 202 (1844); Kraatz, Naturgesch. d. 

 Insect. Deutschl. ii. 123, 5 (1856) ; G. R. Water- 

 house, Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. (4th August, 1856) ; 

 Zool. 5246 (1856). 

 Found by Mr. Waterhouse in company with Formica 

 fuliginosa near Brockenhurst. I met with a single in- 

 dividual on the stump of a recently felled tree at Hampstead 

 on the 3rd of June, 1855. 



7. Myrmedonia laticollis, Maerkel in Germar, Zeitschr. 



f. d. Entom. v. 203 (1844) ; Kraatz, Naturgesch. d. 

 Insect. Deutschl. ii. 127, 11 (1856); G. R. Water- 

 house, Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 4 Aug. 1856, Zool. 

 5246 (1856). 

 Taken by Mr. Waterhouse near Brockenhurst ; by Mr. 



Edwin Shepherd at Norwood, and by myself near Croydon 



in company with Formica fuliginosa. 



8. Myrmedonia lugens, Grav., Erich.; Kraatz, Natur- 



gesch. d. Insect. Deutschl. ii. 126, 9 (1856); G. R. 

 Waterhouse, Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 4 Aug. 1856, 

 Zool. 5246 (1856). 



