rZ COLEOPTERA. 



most nearly allied to C. serratay from which they differ in 

 their rather larger size, flatter and less oval huild, larger 

 antennal club, laterally less rounded thorax (whereof the 

 denticulations are finer behind, and the punctuation is not 

 quite so close), and less evidently pubescent but more finely 

 punctured elytra, the interstitial rows and the striae them- 

 selves being equally delicate, and so close that the surface 

 seems very delicately transversely sub-strigose. 



63. Syncalypta hirsuta. Sharp, Ent. Mo. Mag.,viii, 151 



(described). 



Closely allied to S. setigera, 111., but with much coarser 

 punctuation to the thorax, lighter-coloui-edantennte and legs, 

 lighter-coloured, longer, thinner and less clubbed setae, and 

 the depressed scale-like hairs on the thorax much longer. 



I have found this species in small numbers at the roots of 

 Plantago at Seafordj and expect it will represent setigera 

 in most collections, as the true species of that name appears 

 to have occurred as yet only in the north. 



64. Geotrupes stercorarius, Linn., nee Er. 



pittridarius, Esch., Er. 



6o. Geotrupes mesoleius, Thomson, Skand. Col., x, 330; 

 E. C. Hye, /. c, viii, 107. 

 stercorarius, Er., nee Linn. 

 If Thomson be right in considering the insect with simply 

 sinuate mandibles as the true stercora7mis, the ado])tion of 

 his proposed name for the other and equally common species, 

 with bi-sinuate mandibles, seems imperative. 



I have, I. c.y reproduced the diagnostic characters of both 

 insects. 



