52 COLEOPTERA. 



rather short, testaceous, with brown club; the legs testaceous, 

 with the femora darkened, and the punctuation fine and 

 close. 



67. Trichopteryx (A.) sub^^nea, Motsch., l. c, p. 179; 



E. C. Rye, I. c. 



Also ascribed to England only. This insect is described 

 as of the form and colour oifascicularis, Gillm., but a third 

 smaller and more convex, very shining, black, with a bronze 

 reflection ; with testaceous legs and blackish antennas, of 

 which the base is slightly testaceous. 



Both it and the preceding are placed by the author in his 

 section of the genus wherein the elytra are rather short, but 

 slightly attenuated behind. 



68. Ptenidium intermedium, Wankowiez, Ann. Soe. 



Ent. Fr., 4e ser., ix, p. 412 ; A. Matthews, Ent. 

 Monthly Mag., vol. vii, p. 152 ; T. Wilkinson, ibid. 



Mr. Matthews considers Wankowiez right in erecting to 

 the rank of a species an insect w^hich, from want of ade- 

 quate material, he himself had some years ago considered 

 simply a variety of evanesce^is {apicale, Er.) ; compared wnth 

 which, its thorax is less tumid on the upper surface and 

 sides, with the usual basal foveas much more distinctly 

 marked, the punctuation of its thorax and elytra is deeper 

 and more distinct, and its colour is throughout of a more 

 rufous tint. Mr. Wilkinson records the capture of this in- 

 sect near Scarborough, under rotten birch bark, in March 

 and April. 



Thinking it possible that some entomologist may follow 

 the bad example of Gillmeister, and again include all the 

 species of this group under one generic appellation, Mr. Mat- 

 thews has proposed, to avoid the repetition of " intermedia/* 



