NEW BEITISH SPECIES, ETC., IX 1872. 27 



Gravesencl, but which have been returned to me by 

 M. Brisout as new, and aUied to his seriepunctatus. It is 

 unknown to M. Tournier of Geneva, who is engaged upon 

 a monograph of the group, and to whom I have communi- 

 cated mv type. 



Of our recorded species it seems most nearly aUied to 

 P. corruscus, from which it difiers in its smaller size, rather 

 lighter coloured fore-legs, tarsi and antennge, the club of 

 which is rather broader and not so long, the apical joint 

 being conspicuously broader and shorter, not so acuminate, 

 and slightly flexuous on the inner side towards the apex, 

 and in its elytra being more obtusely rounded behind, more 

 evidently punctate-striate, and with the interstitial punctures 

 much less numerous. 



15. Phalacrus Humbertii (Tournier, MS.) ; E. C. Rye, 



/. c, ix, p. 37. 

 M. Tournier has returned to me with the above MS. 

 name the insect formerly supposed by me (/. c, p. 9) to be a 

 very small example of P. corruscus, from which species it 

 appears to differ also in the stronger punctuation of its 

 elytra and the club of its antenna. As M. Tournier's 

 monograph is not yet published, I refrain from further de- 

 scribing this insect, which I have siuce found among some 

 insects taken by the Rev. Mr. Gorham in Kent, Mr. 

 Champion at Caterham, and Mr. Walker in Sheppy. 



16. Olibrus particeps, Mulsant, Opusc. Ent. 61, p. 127 ; 



E. C. Rye, /. c, ix, p. 38. 

 I strongly suspect that this insect is represented by the 

 0. affinis of our Catalogues, as I have never seen an 

 authentic British example of the latter. The individual 



