38 COLEOPTERA. 



30. HoMALiuM Heerii, T. Blackburn, /. c, vol. iii, p. 93 



(? Heer); E. C. Rye, I. c, vol. vii, p. 152. 

 One of the specimens upon which this species was intro- 

 duced as British by the Rev. T. Blackburn, by whom it was 

 given to me, is, in my opinion, a highly coloured variety of 

 H. vile, Er. ; and Dr. Power has come to the same conclu- 

 sion as regards bis own exponents of JE[. Heerii. That spe- 

 cies does not seem to be universally (if at all) known on the 

 continent ; and may not improbably itself be a var. of H. vile, 

 as Mr. Blackburn's insect agrees well enough with Heer's 

 description, and was returned without comment to me by 

 M. Fauvel,to whom I sent it as Seerii at his request, when 

 he was engaged on the Brachelytra. 



31. Colon denticulatum, Ktz., Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1850, 



p. 189; Tournier, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 4me ser., 



vol. iii, p. 151 ; E. C. Rye, I. c, vol. vii., p. 9. 



Corroborated for me by Dr. Kraatz., who states it to be 



universally very rare. I have a male from Hythe, and there 



is a female in Dr. Sharp's collection (also another of that sex, 



I believe, in Dr. Power's cabinet). 



It is slightly allied to C. appendiculatum, but is smaller, 

 more convex, and with the posterior femora of the S armed 

 only with a small pointed straight tooth beneath. 



32. Anisotoma similata. Rye, I. c, vol. vii, p. 8 (de- 



scribed). 

 A single specimen of this insect, taken by myself at 

 Shirley, is closely allied to A. badia, from which it differs 

 in its rather larger size and lighter colour, the more slender 

 basal joints of its antennae, and its proportionately rather 

 longer elytra, of which the punctures (though regular and 

 well-defined) are much more delicate, — the fourth stria from 



