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27. LiosoMus TROGLODYTES, E. C. Rye, Eut. Mo. Mag., x., 



(1 Nov. 1873), p. 136 {described). 



Since the publication of the above description, drawn up 

 from two $ examples, five more, of both sexes, have been 

 taken by Mr. J. J. Walker (the original captor), at the 

 same place, Faversham, Kent, in moss. All of these agree 

 ad punctiwi with each other ; save that the $ appears, as 

 usual, to be somewhat thinner and longer. 



M. Ch. Brisout, to whom, as a describer of many European 

 species of this genus, I sent the insect for identification, if 

 known, considers it certainly new, and most allied to his 

 L. pi/rencEus. Its very small size (1^ line, rostrum in- 

 cluded) at once separates it from our other species ; but, 

 apart from that, its untoothed femora at once remove it from 

 the common ovatulus, and its opaque and almost rugose- 

 punctate thorax, shorter and broader build, more marked 

 striae, and the insertion of its antennae being not so near the 

 apex of its rostrum, equally readily distinguish it from the 

 rare and recently added oblongulus, which, also, has un- 

 toothed femora. 



I am indebted to Mr. Champion for both sexes of this 

 highly interesting species ; and also for the opportunity of 

 depositing a type in M. Brisout's collection. 



28. Bagous brevis, Gyllenhal, in Schonherr's Gen. et Spec. 



Cure, iii., p. 550; Thomson, Scand. Col., vii, p. 187; 

 E. C. Rye, Ent. Mo. Mag., ix, p. 242. 

 Several specimens of this interesting addition to our list 

 were taken by Dr. Power, I believe in 1872 or 1873, and 

 in Surrey. 



Of our species, it can only be compared with B.frit, 

 which it rather exceeds in size, but is readily distinguishable 

 by its thorax being very strongly constricted before the apex, 



