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by Fairmaire. Recently, wishing to clear up the point, I 

 asked M. C. Brisout, whose brother captured the specimen 

 from which Fairmaire's description was drawn up, if he 

 could allow me to examine that type. M. Brisout courteously 

 answers, expressing his regret that he cannot send it to me, 

 as his brother has but this single specimen, which he does 

 not dare to trust to the tender mercies of the post; but that, 

 having himself studied with care my description of our 

 English insect, with the type of A. grandis before him, it is 

 quite evident to him that the two are identical. The proposed 

 name anglica, and any expression of doubt, must, therefore, 

 be withdrawn. 



14. Anisotoma fallens, Sturm, Deutschl. Ins., ii, p. 39, 

 PI. xxiv, ligs. b, B, C; Schmidt, Germ. Zeitschr. f. d. 

 Ent., iii, p. 171; Erichson, Naturg. d. Ins. Deutschl., 

 iii, p. 66 ; Fairmaire et Lab., Faune Ent. Fran^., 

 Col., i, p. 317; Redtenbacher, Faun. Austr., edn. 2, 

 p. 291; E. C. Rye, /. c, p. 135. 

 Three specimens of this interesting species were taken, by 

 sweeping, at Deal, on 19th September last, by that successful 

 collector Mr. J. J. Walker, to whom {via Mr. G. C. Cham- 

 pion) I am practically indebted for one of them. The insect 

 belongs to that peculiar and rare little group of very convex 

 insects with short antennae, usually found on dunes or sand- 

 hills, and of which we now possess all the three known 

 European species. This one is readily distinguished from 

 furva and ciliaris (the other two), by its smaller size, the 

 much finer and less close punctuation of its thorax, and 

 the finer punctuation of the striae and much less close 

 punctuation of the interstices of its elytra, the outer margins 

 of which are not set with short cilia. 



