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apex, and to which, and not to the Southern-England uni- 

 coloroiis type-form, Curtis's species is to be referred. 

 Dr. Sharp some time ago also directed my attention to it 

 from Scotland. I have never seen it from the South of 

 England. 



34. Lesteva muscorum, Duval, Glanures entom., 1859, 



Cah. i, 37 ; D. Sharp, Cat. Brit. Col. ; Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., viii, 83. 



Taken by Dr. Sharp and myself sparingly, both in Scot- 

 land and England. My own attention was first drawn to 

 this insect many years ago by Mr. J. E. Somerville of 

 Glasgow. 



Compared with L. iranctalay Er., this species is usually 

 larger, and especially longer; its antennas are longer, the 

 3rd joint being conspicuously so; its head is not so closely 

 applied to the thorax, and is more deeply and irregularly 

 foveated, with the interstices of the punctures, especially be- 

 hind, wider and more shining; the thorax is not transverse, 

 and its sides are not rounded off evenly towards the posterior 

 contraction, but suddenly narrowed about the middle, with 

 an evident lateral impression at the point of contraction ; its 

 punctuation, also, is coarser and not so close, and there are 

 more evident traces of dorsal impressions, and the elytra are 

 longer. 



35. Olophrum consimile, Gyll. {Homalium); Er. ; 



Kraatz, Ins. Deutsch., ii, 941 ; D. Sharp, Ent. Mo. 



Mag., viii, 73. 

 A single specimen of this insect was taken in moss by 

 Dr. Buchanan White at Braemer in June last. Its narrower 

 build, its thorax being sinuate at the sides behind the middle, 



