74 COLEOPTERA. 



67. Throscus CARiNiFRONSjBonvouloir, Ess. mon. Throsc, 



20; Thorns., Skand. Col., x, 91; E. C. Rye, Z. c, 

 viii. 135; E. W. Janson, Proc. Ent. Soc, 6 Nov., 

 1871. 

 elateroides, Redt., Fauna Austr., ed. 2, 403 {Trix- 

 acus)j nee Heer; Bethe, Stettin. Ent. Zeit., xxxi, 

 328.' 

 I have recorded this species on the authority of two ex- 

 amples, $ and ? (of which one is now, thanks to the generosity 

 of its captor, in my cabinet), found by Mr. WoUaston in Au- 

 gust last on a fence at Dry Hill, Tonbridge. It appears, also, 

 that the Rev. A. Matthews has for some time possessed this 

 species, taken by himself at Chiselhurst, and determined and 

 recorded by Mr. Janson immediately after the publication of 

 my notice. 



T. carlmfrons somewhat resembles T. dermestoides, from 

 which it structurally varies in the two frontal keels of its 

 head being more distinct, and extended backwards to the 

 prothorax; in its eyes being divided considerably beyond the 

 middle by a narrow horny plate ; in its thorax being, in the 

 , at least, flatter, and very evidently and suddenly sinuously 

 contracted towards the front from the lower third ; and in its 

 more acuminate elvtra, of which the striae are more delicatelv 

 impressed, and the interstitial punctures are i-ather clearer, 

 the surface being not so coarsely granulated. 



Redtenbacher states his insect to be very common on 

 Parietaria officinalis at Vienna. 



68. Agriotes sordidus, lUiger, Mag. fiir Insectenkunde, 



vi (1807), 7 ; Candeze, Elat., iv, 391 ; D. Sharp, 

 Cat. Brit. Col. ; Ent. Mo. Mag., viii, 83. 

 rufiija I'p is, B r ul 1 e . 

 A carded specimen, taken long since by Mr. Wollaston at 



