36 COLEOPTERA. 



Returned to me as unknown by Dr. Kraatz and 

 M. Fauvel. 



27. Trogophlceus spinicollis, Rye, /. c , vol. vii, p. 8 



(described). 

 A single specimen of this very distinct insect, taken by 

 Mr. J. Kidson Taylor of Manchester, under rejectamenta 

 of the river Mersey, on 9th Aug., 1868, has been corrobo- 

 rated for me by Dr. Kraatz as undescribed. Dr. Kraatz 

 refers it to Ancyrojphorus ; but the decidedly subulate apical 

 joint of its maxillary palpi and its concealed scutellum appear 

 to me to point in preference to Trogophlceus. The sharply 

 spined anterior angles of its thorax prevent its being con- 

 fused with any other allied species known to me; in other 

 respects, compared with T. scrobiculaiu.'i, Er. {arcuatus, 

 Wat. Cat.) and T. riparius, Boisd,, it may be known by its 

 shorter and stouter antennae, the greater depth between the 

 back of its eye and the hind margin of its head, its smaller 

 and scarcely cordate thorax, of which the punctuation is very 

 coarse and the dorso-lateral depressions are less conspicuous 

 and not so complicated, and its wider, longer, and much 

 more coarsely punctured elytra. 



28. HoMALiUM BREYicoRXE, Er. ; Ktz., Ins. Deutschl., 



ii, p. 993, note ; E. C. Rye, /. c, vol. vii, p. 153. 

 To this species, upon which, considered as British, 

 M. Fauvel has thrown some doubt (see Ent. Ann,, 1870), 

 must in my opinion be referred some specimens recently 

 taken by Mr. J. Hardy, at Wooler, in fungus, on alders; 

 and also two specimens erroneously named graciUcorne for 

 me by M. Fauvel (Ent. Ann., 1870, p. 88), which, with 

 many others, were taken by Dr. Power at Balmuto, Fife- 

 shire. EL. hrei'icorne, when fully mature, bears a considerable 



