NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1870. 29 



9. Calodera RUBENS, Er , Gen. et Spec. Staph,, p. 67 ; 



Ktz., Ins. Deutschl., ii, p. 142 ; E. C. Rye, /. c, 



vol. vi, p. 229. 

 Several specimens of this insect have been taken by 

 Mr. Champion in a marshy place near Lee ; and a very 

 large number have subsequently been taken by Dr. Power 

 at Cowley. 



-Its dull appearance, and even and somewhat parallel form, 

 prevent its being confused with any of our recorded species of 

 Calodera ; and it, perhaps, most resembles a small specimen 

 of Homalota lanrjuida, — but with much more transverse 

 joints to its antennae. It is pitchy black, with reddish-brown 

 antennae and legs, and is exceedingly finely and closely punc- 

 tui'ed all over. 



10. OxYPODA LONGIPES, Mulsant, Op. Ent., xii, p. 103; 



D. Sharp, /. c, vol. vi, p. 281. 

 ? metatarsalisy Thorns. 

 Closely resembles O. tittata^ from which, however, it 

 appears to differ very decidedly in the much longer inter- 

 mediate joints of its posterior tarsi, and also in the larger 

 terminal joint of its antennae. 



Dr. Sharp records the capture of a single specimen by 

 himself at Aberlady, near Edinbui'gh. 



11. Homalota alg^e, Hardy, Trans. Tyneside Nat. Field 



Club, ii, p. 78 (1851); T. J. Bold, Ent. Monthly 



Mag., vol. vii, p. 136. 

 Mr. Bold corrects the date on the title page of the separate 

 copies of the Catalogue of Coleoptera of Northumberland 

 and Durham, written by Mr. Hardy and himself: this should 

 apparently have been 1846 — 1852, instead of 1852 only; as 

 the publication in the Tyneside Nat. Field Club's Trans- 



