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20. Tachyporusabdominalis, auct. ; Pandelle, Z.c.,p.305; 



E. C. Rye, I. c, vol. vi, p. 211. 

 This name must be removed from our lists. All Britisli 

 insects representing it that I have seen are simply pale 

 solutus or ohtusus; and the species itself is virtually non- 

 existent, the ahdominalis of Gravenhorst being pale hr^un- 

 neus, — of Kraatz, pale riificollis, — of Erichson, pale ohtusus 

 and a new species from Beilin and Austria (Erichsonis, 

 Pandelle), — and of Mannerheim, pale ohtusus, according to 

 Pandelle. 



21. Bryoporus rugipennis, Pandelle, I. c, p. 352 {Boli- 



tohius) ; E. C. Rye, I. c., vol. vi, p. 212. 

 The insect referred to in Ent. Ann. 1867, p. 62, as pro- 

 bably a dai'k var. of B. riifus, is described under this name 

 as a good species by M. Pandelle, who states that it differs 

 from B. rvfus in having its eyes convex, the large middle 

 punctures of the thorax distant from the margin in the pro- 

 portions of 16—20, instead of 9 — 10 (as in rufus), the outer 

 punctures approaching the margin " vix'' instead of " evi- 

 denter^^ and the longitudinal striolae of the elytra more 

 defined. It is stated to be often confounded with B. rufus^ 

 and to occur in the Pyrenees and Alps. Mr. E. A. Water- 

 house has placed in my hands a specimen o^ o. Bryoporus 

 also taken on Gray vel by himself, which I intend to forward 

 to M. Pandelle on the earliest opportunity, as its characters 

 render it peculiarly interesting with regard to the relations 

 of rufus and rugipennis, 



22. Mycetoporus Reyi, Pandelle {Bolitohius), I.e., p. 345; 



E. 0. Rye, /. c, vol. vi, p. 211. 

 angularisj Muls. et Rey, nee Payk., Steph., or 

 Sachse. 

 1871. D 



