NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1861-62. 97 



87. Telephorus, 21* sp. ? Wat. Cat. p. 109 (1861). 



Taken by C. Turner at Rannoch. Allied to testaceiix, 



Linn., but larger, more robust, antennae darker, thorax 

 broader, less constricted, and darker, and the punctuation of 

 the elytra decidedly closer. 



88. Telephorus ater, Linn., Syst. Nat. 2, 649, 16 ; Gyll. 



Ins. i. 336, 10 {Cantharis) ; Kiesenw. Nat. der Ins. 

 Deutschl. (1860), 516, 42; Wat. Cat. p. 109 (1861). 



89.. Haplocnemus nigricornis, Fab., Ent. Syst. i. 2. 81. 

 16, Syst. Eleuth. ii. p. 73, 10 ; Payk. ; Gyll. 

 impressus, var., Steph. 111. 



Mr. Waterhouse informs me that there are not only two 

 species of this genus in England, but that on a very careful 

 examination of the original descriptions, he comes to the 

 conclusion that the common species has been hitherto 

 wrongly named by him. Dr. Power originally noticed the 

 existence of more than one Haplocnemus in England, and 

 the present species was determined by Mr. AVaterhouse, from 

 a specimen found by Charles Turner in the New Forest. 



It may be known from impressus, Marsham, by its greener 

 colour ; its tibiae, tarsi and apex of femora being pale, and 

 the elytra having a lesser number of punctures, which are 

 coarser and less clearly defined : the reflected mai'gins of the 

 thorax and elytra are also rufescent beneath. 



90. Haplocnemus impressus, Marsham, Ent. Brit. 226, 

 16 ( Crioceris) ; Steph. Illust. iii. p. 316, and Coll. 

 {Aplocnemus). 

 nigricornis, Wat. Cat. p. 57. 



This is the insect named nigricornis in our collections. 

 1863. H 



