76 COLEOPTERA. 



shining, brownish-black, with red antennse and legs, the pro- 

 thorax exceedingly delicately jDunctured, and the elytra rather 

 regularly and strongly punctate-striate, with the interstices 

 almost i-egularly set with short hairs. It appears to be uni- 

 versally very rare. 



71. Serropalpus striatus, Hellenius, Vetensk. Akad. 



nya Handl., 1786, vii, 310 j Gyll., Ins. Suec, ii, 515 ; 



Redt., Fauna Austr., 631; Muls., Hist. Nat. Col. de 



France, Barbipalpes, 83; Bach, Kafer-F., iii, 241; 



Thorns., Skand. Col., vi, 315 j| J. O. Westwood, 



Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1867, cvi ; D. Sharp, Cat. 



Brit. Col., 1871, 26. 

 ? Vaudoueri, Latr. ; J. O. Westwood, ZooL, 1844, 



701; Ent. Ann. 1855, 132 {Vaudouerii). 

 Professor Westwood, at a meeting; of the Entomoloojical 

 Society held on 2nd December, 1867, exhibited an individual 

 of the above species, taken in Leicestershire, and stated to 

 be the same as that recorded in the " Zoologist" above quoted. 

 I accidentally omitted to include in the " Annual" for 1869 

 (that for 1868 being in the press at the time of the exhibition 

 above referred to) this fresh identification of an already regis- 

 tered insect, which no one until now has considered worthy 

 of a place in our catalogues, considering the want of certainty 

 as to its species and the doubtful evidence upon which it was 

 originally proposed to be treated as indigenous. The record 

 in the *' Zoologist" states that Mr. Westwood "had been 

 favoured by Mr. I. Plant, of Leicester, with a specimen of 

 the genus Serropalpus, which was captured by his brother 

 in the warehouse of Messrs. Harris and Sons, hosiers, in a 

 bundle of hose,* which a countryman had just brought from 



* There is, of course, no doubt that truly indigenous species often 

 occur in the most unexpected localities ; and this capture reminds me 

 that during the past autumn a specimen (dead, of course) of Sibijnes 



