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Whence Stephens's description, Man. Brit. Col. 372, 2929, 

 is taken, I know not ; it appears, however, to be translated 

 from Erichson's diagnosis, with certain additions : there is no 

 specimen thus designated in his cabinet, although the ab- 

 sence of the asterisk before the specific title in the Manual 

 indicates that he possessed an insect to which he considered 

 his description applied. An individual which I sent to Dr. 

 Kraatz in the autumn of 1854 was returned ticketed " Silusa 

 trinotata, mihi." This insect occurs, but very sparingly, 

 beneath the bark of dead trees, and at the fermenting sap 

 oozing from the wounds of living trees, especially elms ; oc- 

 casionally also among the decomposing frass in the galleries 

 of the larvae of the Goat-moth (Cossus liyniperda). 



5. Ocalea rivularis, Miller, Kraatz ; Waterhouse, Zool. 



5633 (1857). 

 My specimens of this and of the greater number of the 

 Aleocharidce enumerated in Mr. Waterhouse's List, being 

 still in that gentleman's hands, I am unable to furnish any 

 information respecting them, my memoranda being available 

 only by the numbers and tickets attached to the insects. 



6. Ocalea badia, Eric, Kraatz ; Waterhouse, Zool. 5633 



(1857). 



7. Leptusa fumida, Eric, Kraatz ; Waterhouse, Zool. 



5633 (1857); Oxypoda jumida, Eric 

 Beneath bark, Colney Hatch, October ; rare. 



8. Leptusa ruficollis, Eric, Kraatz ; Waterhouse, ZooL 



5633 (1857). 

 Oxypoda ruficollis, Eric 

 Taken very sparingly by myself, within the London district, 

 in moss on the trunks of trees, and beneath the bark, in 

 winter and early spring. 



9. Thiasophila inquilina, Maerkel ; Kraatz, Naturgesch. 



d. Insect. Deutschl. ii. 71, 2 (1856). 



