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COLE.OPTERA. 



New British Species noticed in 1860. 



By E. W. Janson, Sec. Ent. Soc. 



1. Bradycellus HARPALiNUS, Dej.; E. W. Janson,Proc. 



Ent. Soc. 5 Nov. 1860. 



Acupalpus harpalinus, Dej. Spec. Gen. iv. 471, 27 



(1829), Icon. d. Coleop. d'Europe, iv. 274, 18, 



T.201, f. 6 (1834); Heer, Faun. Col. Helv. i. 118, 



2 (1838). 



Bradycellus falvus ex parte, Dawson, Geod. Brit. 163, 



3 (1854). 



Sradjjcellus fulvus, Fairm. et Laboulb. Faune Ent. 

 Frang. Col'eop. i. 143, 8 (1854) ; Duval et Mign. 

 Gen. Col. Eur. Carab. T. 16, f. 76 (1855\ 

 Bradycellus harpalinus, Redtb. Faun. Austr. Ed. i. 

 103 (1849), Ed. ii. 65 (1857); Schaum, Natur- 

 gesch. d. Ins. Deutschl. i. i. 627, 4 (1860). 

 Distinguished from Brad. Verhasci, Duft. {^Acupalpus 

 rufulus, Dej.), Schaum, Ent. Annual for 1860, 125, by its 

 usually smaller size and darker colour, and the obtuse, 

 nearly rounded, posterior angles of its thorax. 



I sent individuals of this species to Dr. Schaum of Berlin ; 

 he informs me that it is the Acupalpus harpalinus, Dej., 

 and the Bradycellus harpalinus of his description, Natur- 

 gesch. Ins. Deutschl. 1. c. 



