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48. Agathidium confusum, Cb. Bris., Gren. Cat. et 



Mat., &c., Aug. 1863, 9. 

 chjjieatum, Sharp (Nov. 1865); Ent. Ann., 1866, 

 79. 

 Dr. Sharp (Cat. Brit. Col.) gives the above synonym}^ 

 for the A. mandihidare of Wat. Cat. (nee Sturm). 



49. ? Anisotoma grandis, Fairni. et Lab., Faune Ent. 



Fran^., i, 316; E. C. Rye, I. c, vii, 180. 



I have recorded this species, with some doubt, on the 

 authority of three specimens taken by myself by sweeping at 

 Mickleham, in 1863, and of another example, in Mr. O. Jan- 

 son's collection, taken near Highgate. 



The most typical of my insects, a ? , seems to differ from 

 A. cinnamomea in its rather lesser size and convexity, in its 

 entirely rufous antennce, of which the club is not quite so 

 large or compact, with the 2nd joint not quite so small or 

 transverse; in its thorax, when viewed from the front, not 

 being so contracted behind, and with its anterior contraction 

 less abrupt, more rounded, and beginning above the middle, 

 and its anterior angles much less evident, and rounded off; 

 and in the interstices of its elytra being evidently punctured. 

 Its posterior femora are distinctly angulated beneath. 



The males have their hind femora flattened and terminated 

 by a very slight angular point, with no vestige of other 

 denticulation, and their hind tibiae very slightly curved. 



50. ? Anisotoma oBLONGA,Ericbson, Ins. Deutschl., iii, 53, 



note ; E. C. Hye, I. c. 



Dr. Kraatz has returned to me, as probably the Anisotoma 

 oblonga of Erichson, an insect given to me hy its captor, 

 Mr. J. T. Harris of Burton-on-Trent; and I possess a second 

 specimen, beaten off broom in a wood near York bv Mr. H. 



1872, F 



