NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1870. 47 



Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., xii, p. 106; G. R. Crotch, Proc. 

 Erit. Soc. London, 2 May, 1870; Ent. Monthly Mag., 

 vol. vii, p. 21. 



Of this widely-distributed species, five examples, for one 

 of which I am indebted to Mr. Crotch's liberality, were 

 taken by that gentleman at Weston-super-Mare. 



Superficially resembling T. spinimanus, from which the 

 much shorter armature of its anterior tibiae at once separates 

 it, this insect is more closely allied to T. alternans, having 

 the armature of the anterior tibise similar but much less 

 pronounced, and distinctly striated elytra, with level inter- 

 stices, all moderately thickly set with fine setae, instead of 

 indistinct striae, and the alternate interstices elevated and 

 setose, as in alternans. 



bl. Trachyphlceus myrmecophilus, Seidlitz, I. c.,p. 124; 

 E. C. Rye, /. c, vol. vii, p. 149. 



For the addition of this interesting species to our list, we 

 are indebted to the energy of Mr. Moncreaff of Southsea, 

 who has taken several specimens of it near Lumps pond, 

 Southsea Beach, it having only been recorded before from 

 the Escurial, Spain. 



Mr. Moncreaff's insect agrees with Seidlitz's myrmeco- 

 philus in being as it were intermediate between T. aristatus 

 and T. squamulatus, diff^ering, however, structurally from 

 both. It has the stout clubbed elytral setae of aristatus 

 (though they are not quite so pronounced), but its thorax is 

 not so wide, and its elytra are more elongate, not being so 

 inclined to globose-oval. The second segment of its abdo- 

 men, moreover, is divided from the first by an arched suture, 

 and is lono-er than the 3rd and 4th se^-ments together; 

 whereas in aristatus the second segment is divided from the 

 first by a straight line, and is scarcely so long as the 3rd and 



