NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1872. 29 



Of the size of ordinary ovatus ; of exactly oval outline, 

 dull, closely and finely punctured, convex, clothed with very 

 evident, depressed grey hairs, with the anterior tibiae con- 

 siderably dilated towards the apex, and having their outer 

 margin finely denticulated to a little below the middle, and 

 then armed with 3 or 4 stronger and rather irregular teeth. 



Found by M. Brisouton Solanum dulcamara and Nepeta 

 cataria. Herr Reitter records it from N. grandiflora, 



19. Cyfhon punctipennis, D. Sharp, /. c, ix, p. loo, de- 



scribed, 

 nigriceps, Sharp, Cat., nee Kies., ?iec Thoms. 



Dr. Sharp describes as new the species taken by himself 

 at Eannoch and on the Keir Hills, Thornhill, Dumfries (and 

 also by Dr. Power, near Balmuto, Fife), and formerly brought 

 forward as 7iigriceps ; as Kiesenwetter's species of that 

 name is according to Tournier (who has received types from 

 Kiesenwetter) only variabilis, and Thomson's nigriceps has 

 the suture infuscate behind (which is never the case in the 

 Scotch insect), and is probably also only a form of variabilis. 



It lives in moss in wet places on the moors, especially 

 where growing thickly with heather and mixed with rein- 

 deer lichen ; and, compared with variabilis, is shorter, 

 broader, and more convex, \At\\ extremely short, fine and 

 scanty pubescence, more sparingly (and at the base more 

 coarsely) punctured elytra, and the 3rd joint of the antennas 

 comparatively rather shorter. 



20. Anthicus scoticus, E. C. Eye, /. c., ix, p. 10, described. 

 This insect, the " Anthicus 6 sp. nov. ?" of Mr. Water- 

 house's Catalogue, has been already sufficiently discussed in 

 Ent. Ann. 1868, p. 70. It has been returned to me by 

 M. Brisout as unknown ; and has recently occurred in some 



