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COLEOPTERA. 



New British Species noticed in 1857. 

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



1. Bolitochara lucida, Grav., Eric, Kraatz ; Water- 



house, Zool. 5633 (1857). 



Placed to represent lunulata in the Stephensian cabinet, 

 but does not answer to his description, which is probably 

 copied from some continental work, and refers to the true 

 Bol. lunulata, Payk., a species I believe not hitherto ascer- 

 tained to be indigenous. 



Appears to be a scarce insect ; my specimens I found in 

 boleti, near Reigate, Surrey, in July. 



2. Bolitochara bella, Maerkel, Kraatz , Waterhouse^ 



Zool. 5633 1857). 

 Also a scarce species: I have taken it near Reigate, in 

 company with the preceding, and likewise near Croydon in 

 the autumn. 



3. Phytosus nigriventris, Chevrolat; Bold, Zool. 5448 



(1857); Wollaston, Cat. Col. Ins. Mad. 169, 482 

 (1857) ; P. spinifer $ , Curtis. 

 " Taken beneath Algae, on the Durham and Northumbrian 

 coasts" $ , ? . 



4. Silusa rubiginosa, Eric. ; Waterhouse, Zool. 5633 



(1857). 



