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of ant allied to F. rufa; MM. Fairmaire and Laboulbene 

 inform us, that in France it generally inhabits the small 

 nests of yellow ants under stones, " se trouve generalement 

 dans les petits nids de Fourmis jaunes, sous les pierres" 



13. Ilyobates propinqua, Aube, Fairm. et Laboulb. ; 



Waterhouse, Zool. 5634(1857). 

 Calodera propinqua, Aube, Ann. d. 1. Soc. Ent. de 



France, Ser. 2, viif. 302, 3 (1850;. 

 Ilyobates ruf us, Kraatz, Naturgesch. d. Insect. Deutschl. 



ii. 135, 2 (1856), is possibly, as indicated by its author, 



not specifically distinct. 



14. Ilyobates forticornis, Boisd. et Lacord. ; Water- 



house, Zool. 5634 (1857). 

 Bolitochara forticornis, Boisd. et Lacord. Faun. Ent. 

 des Env. d. Paris, 543, 4 (1835). 



15. Callicerus rigidicornis, Eric, Kraatz; Water- 



house, Zool. 5634(1857). 

 Homalota rigidicornis, Eric, Gen. et Spec. Staph. 



82, 3 (1839). 

 Semirisfusca, Heer, Faun. Col. Helv. 343, 1 (1839). 



16. Calodera nigrita, Mannhm., Kraatz, Naturgesch. 



d. Insect. Deutschl. ii. 141, 1 (1856). 

 Calodera, nov. sp.?" Waterhouse, Zool. 3634(1857) ? 

 I have not seen Mr. Waterhouse's insect, but have never- 

 the less good reason for believing that it will prove to be the 

 C. nigrita of the authors above cited, and identical with the 

 specimens thus denominated in my collection, and which I 

 owe to the kindness of Mr. Edwin Shepherd, by whom this 

 apparently rare species has been taken within the London 

 district in the early spring and late in the autumn. 



Stephens's description, Man. Brit. Col. 354, 2753 (1839), 

 probably copied from Count Mannerheim, applies very well, 

 as far as it goes, to the insect before me ; indeed, the size 



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