NEW BRITISH SPECIES NOTICED IN 185S. 143 



Mr. Stephens, who had evidently recognized it as a distinct 

 species, having set it apart, but without a label. 



This insect resembles on a cursory inspection the common 

 L. (Crioceris) cyanella, L., so nearly that it may possibly 

 be found mixed up with it in some of our collections. It 

 differs in being a trifle larger, in the thorax being widest a 

 little before the middle, its disc exceedingly finely punctate, 

 with three irregular longitudinal rows of larger punctures ; the 

 elytra are more finely punctate-striate, the interstices trans- 

 versely wrinkled. 



107. Cryptocephalus imperialis,F.; Waterhouse, Proc. 

 Ent. Soc. 7 Sept. 1857. 



Found by Dr. Power some years since on the Gogmagog 

 Hills, Cambridgeshire. Identified by Mr. Edward Shep- 



Fig. 5. 

 108. Cryptocephalus variabilis, Schneider ; Water- 

 house, Proc. Ent. Soc. 7 Sept. 1857. 



Confounded by Dr. Leach and Mr. Stephens with its near 

 ally C. sexpunctatus, L., a single specimen having been de- 

 tected in each of their cabinets mixed up with that species ; 

 no clue exists, it would appear, to the localities in which these 

 specimens were taken. 



The following require further investigation ere they can 

 be admitted as species new to our list. 



Nebria nivalis, Payk. ; E. W. Janson, Proc. Ent. Soc. 

 6 Sept. 1858, Zool. 6252 (1858). 



I have only recently had an opportunity of examining the 

 two specimens referred by Mr. Squire to this species, and 

 which certainly present the characters attributed by Drs. 



