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38. Tachinus bipustulatus, Grav. ; Waterhouse, Cat. 



Brit. Col. 20 (1858). 

 A rare species which I have on several occasions met with 

 near Highgate, Hampstead and Charlton, Kent, amongst 

 the fermenting comminuted wood ejected from their burrows 

 by the larvag of Cossus ligniperda : my colleague, Mr. Edwin 

 Shepherd, has found it under similar circumstances near 

 Putney. 



39. Mycetoporus lucidus, Eric. ; Waterhouse, Cat. Brit. 



Col. 22 (1858). 

 This insect occurs in moss in humid "places. The only 

 specimen I possess was taken by Mr. G. Guy on, near 

 Ventnor, in the Isle of Wight ; and in Mr. Wollaston's Col- 

 lection, I find a single individual captured by that gentle- 

 man near Norwich. 



40. Mycetoporus punctus, Grav., Eric, Kraatz. 

 Mycetoporus punctatus, Waterhouse, Cat. Brit. Col. 



22 (1858). 



41. Xantholinus longiventris, Heer ; Waterhouse, Cat. 



Brit. Col. 26 (1858). 

 A not uncommon insect in the vicinity of London. Nearly 

 allied to X. linearis, and confounded with it by the older 

 Entomologists; it maybe readily distinguished by its usually 

 larger size, by the linear series of punctures on each side of 

 the thorax, rarely exceeding twelve in number, being larger 

 and deeper, by its brassy black elytra and their more delicate 

 and sparser puncturing. 



42. Philonthus lucens, Mannerh. ; Waterhouse, Cat. 



Brit. Col. 24 (1858). 

 In cow-dung near Hampstead, rare. 



43. Philonthus lepidus, Grav. ; Waterhouse, Cat. Brit. 



Col. 24 (1858). 

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