NEW BRITISH SPECIES NOTICED IN 1859. Ill 



19. Ptinella Ratisbonensis, Gillm., Matthews ; E. W. 



Janson, Proc. Ent. Soc. 4 April, 1859, Zool. 6614 

 (1859). 

 Trichopteryx Ratisbonensis, Gillm. in Sturm's 

 Deutschl. Fauna, Ins. xvii. 61, 2, Tab. 5, f. 2 

 (1845). 

 Ptilium Ratisbonense, Redtenb. Faun. Austr. Ed. i. 



150 (1849), Ed. ii. 302 (1857). 

 Ptinella Ratisbonensis y Matthews, in HtteYis. 

 I found this insect beneath bark of felled pine, within the 

 London district, in January ; taken also by my friend Mr. 

 T. P. Dossetor about the same period, and under similar 

 circumstances. 



As we expect very shortly, from the pen of the Rev. A. 

 Matthews, a supplementary paper on the British Trichop- 

 terygidce, which will comprise descriptions of this and the 

 two following species, besides several other novelties in this 

 genus, I need not here touch on their distinctive characters. 



20. Ptinella tenella, Eric, Matthews; E. W. Janson, 



Proc. Ent. Soc. 4 April, 1859, Zool. 6614 (1859). 

 Ptilium tenellum, Eric. Naturgesch. d. Ins. Deutschl. 

 hi. 33, 15 (May, 1845); Redtenb. Faun. Austr. Ed. 

 ii. 302 (1857)/ 

 Trichopteryx microscopica, Gillm. in Sturm's Deutschl. 



Fauna, Ins. xvii. 6o, 5, Tab. 5, f. 5 (xlugust, 1845). 

 Ptilium microscopicum, Redtenb. Faun. Austr. Ed. i. 



150 (1849). 

 Ptinella tenella, Matthews, in litteris. 

 I captured a single example of this species, near Hamp- 

 stead, beneath the bark of a felled pine, at the latter end of 

 February. 



21. Ptinella angustula, Gillm., Matthews; E. W. 



