26 COLEOPTERA. 



thereby exhibiting an affinity with A. ciliaris and furva. 

 Of the size of average calcarata; with the apical joint of its 

 antennae narrower than the preceding, the thorax wide, very 

 rotundate at the sides and truncate at the base, the punctures 

 of the stri^ of the elytra small and closely packed, the 

 anterior tibiae linear, somewhat irregular on the outer edge, 

 and the posterior femora of the male flattened and Avidened, 

 with a minute denticle at the apex. 



Several specimens have been taken by Mr. R. Lawson, 

 near Scarborough, chiefly under flood-refuse ; and Mr. 

 G. R. Waterhouse has a small $ example taken many 

 years ago at Sydenham. 



13. Anisotoma brunnea, Sturm ; Er., Ins. Deutschl., iii, 



p. 72; E. C. Eye, I. c, ix, p. 135. 



I have referred to the above species a few individuals (of 

 both sexes) taken during the past autumn by Mr. R. Lawson 

 out of flood-refuse near Scarborough ; and which, agreeing 

 as they do so well in all respects with the characters men- 

 tioned by Erichson, prove that Dr. Kraatz was quite wrong 

 in attributing brumiea to obesa, as a small form (Stettin, 

 ent. Zeit., xiii, jd. 379). 



The insect is rather less than calcarata, entirely ferru- 

 ginous, with a narrow club to its antenna3, of which the 

 apical joint is not narrower than the preceding, the base of 

 its thorax not sinuate, and the strio3 of its elytra fine, with 

 small and closely packed punctures. The hind legs of the $ 

 are much as in litura, but the tibise are broader, and not so 

 elongate or so much curved inwards at the apex. 



14. Phalacrus Brisouti, E. C. Rye, /. c, ix, pp. 8 



{described) and 37. 

 This is the species dubiously referred to by me in Ent. 

 Ann. 1872, p. 67, as bruniiipes, Bris., from Lee and 



