22 COLEOrTERA. 



1. Ilybius ^nescexs, Thomson, Opusc. Ent., p. 125; G. 



Kraatz, Berl. ent. Zeitschr., xv, p. 166; E. C. Rye, 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., ix, p. 36 ; T. J. Bold, ibid., p. 60. 

 I have much doubt whether this can be considered as any- 

 thing but a mere change of name. The species was first re- 

 corded as British by Dr. Kraatz ; and I find all my so- 

 called angnstior are apparently more correctly referred to 

 it. The true angustior appears to be usually larger, with 

 more metallic reflections, and the antennas pitchy at the apex. 

 Mr. Bold is also inclined to refer his supposed angustior to 

 Thomson's insect; but fails to see the sinuation at the base of 

 the underside of the claws of the intermediate tarsi referred 

 to by the Swedish author as a character of the $ , and dis- 

 tinctly visible in one of my insects. 



2. PiiiLHYDRUs suTUEALis, D. Sharp, Ent. Mo. Mag., ix, 



p. 153, described. 



" Common both in England and Scotland." 



Closely allied to P. marginellus (Thoms.), but larger, with 

 yellow palpi (occasionally the second and middle of the last 

 joint a little clouded), the clypeus with a yellow spot on 

 each side in front of the eye, the punctuation of the upper 

 surface slightly less marked, and the elytra dull testaceous 

 Avith the suture black. P. ovalis, Thoms. (probably the ti^ue 

 marginellus^ Thomson's species of the latter name being 

 almost certainly ajjinis, Gyll. according to Dr. Sharp), which 

 also has yellow palpi, is black, with the sides of the thorax 

 and elytra yellowish, and the head unspotted. 



3. Leptusa testacea, Ch. Brisout, in Gren. Cat. et Mat., 



&c., 1863, p. 16 ; E. C. Rye, /. c, p. 5. 

 A single specimen taken by Mr. Champion on 6th June, 

 1870, out of sea-weed on the sandy shore at Whitstable, 



