NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1870. 45 



50. MicROPTiNus (nitpus) gonospermi, Du v. ; E. C. 



Rye, /. c, vol. vi, p. 182. 

 A communication from Professor Syme (published by my- 

 self as above) justifies the opinion expressed in Ent. Ann. 

 1870, that this species cannot be considered indigenous to 

 the British Isles. 



51. Dasytes oculatus, Kies., Berlin. Ent. Ze\\., 1867, 



p. 115; G. R. Crotch, Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 4 



April, 1870; ^'Newman's Entomologist," No. 79, 



p. 111. 



coxalis, Mulsant and Rey (1868). 



plu7nheus, Illig., Thorns, {nee Miiller) 

 This synonymy (and that of the two following species) is 

 on the authority of Mr. Crotch, who records D. oculatus as 

 taken by Mr. Wollaston in Lincolnshire ; and states that the 

 males may be distinguished by their large globose eyes, the 

 space between which is much narrower than in D.plumbeus 

 (flavipeSf Wat. Cat.) ; the females of oculatus having the 

 base of the antennae and the anterior coxge testaceous, whilst 

 in the same sex of plurnbeus only the second joint of the 

 antennae is testaceous,— the eyes, moreover, .being less de- 

 veloped. 



Kiesenwetter's insect is from the Sierra de Jaen. 



52. Dasytes plumbeus, Miill., Kies. 



Jiavipes, Oliv., Muls. (nee Fab.) 

 fusculus, Thorns. ? {nee Kies.) 



53. Dasytes plumbeo-niger, Goeze. 



cer-atuSf Steph. 



cerosuSj Kies. 



plumheuSy Oliv., Fourc, Muls. {nee Miill.) 



sub-ceneus, Thorns., Crotch Cat. {nee Schon.) 



