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(near currax), Liogliita crassicor7iis, L. 6-7iotata, sp. n. 

 (with shorter and thinner antennae than crassiconiis, rather 

 longer elytra, &c.), Bessobia occulta, Atheta breviceps, 

 Homalota nigricans, sp. n. (rather larger than plana, with 

 darker elytra and legs, longer thorax, which, with the head, 

 is scarcely channelled), Deliphrwn crenatum, Mylcechus 

 latus, Meligetkes hcbes and eorvinus, Epurcea angustida, 

 Trox hispidus, Ptinus dubiiis, Ernobius canaliculatus, sp. 

 n. (with thorax like nigrinus, but the antennae as in ahietis: 

 the specific name is badly chosen, as the author's genera are 

 not accepted by all, and he has a Hadrobregmus canalicu- 

 latus, now stated to be An&bium nitidum, Stm.), Lathridius 

 variolosus, Enicmus brevicornis, Corticaria Jiavescens, sp. 

 n. (size, build, and pubescence of crenulata, but differently 

 punctured on the elytra, and with no pit on the last ventral 

 segment: this is Crotch's C. fulva, but not Mannerheim's, 

 teste Thomson), C. melanophthalma,foveola, Qjll.,foveola, 

 Thorns., re-named depressa, C. spinulosa, sp. n. (like elon- 

 gata, but with the sides of the thorax more strongly deuticu- 

 late-spinose, and the apex of the elytra not obtuse), C. trun- 

 catella and latipennis, Cryptophagus parallelus, sp. n. 

 (preoccupied by Brisout, and jDrobably for the same species), 

 the Swedish species of Elater with red elytra, Buprestis 

 splendida, Apion penetrans, Sitones eribricollis (for which 

 he sinks the prior cambrica of Stephens), S. punctiger. 

 Thorns. (= puncticollis, Steph), Trachijphlceus alternans, 

 Ceuthorhynchus unguicularis, sp. n. ijioralis, with 7-jointed 

 funiculus, a shorter apical joint to the tarsi, bifid claws, and 

 the elytra evenly squamose), C Stenbergi (Thorns., = mela- 

 nostictus. Marsh.), Rhamphus ceneus, Anthonomus bituber- 

 culatus (Thorns., = ulmi\ Cryphalus granulatus, Poly- 

 graphus subopacus, sp. n. (less than pubescens, with a 

 shorter thorax, more densely and delicately squamose-pubes- 



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